Social and Political Aspects
The ISTAG advisory group suggests that the following characteristics will permit the societal acceptance of ambient intelligence:
- AmI should facilitate human contact.
- AmI should be oriented towards community and cultural enhancement.
- AmI should help to build knowledge and skills for work, better quality of work, citizenship and consumer choice.
- AmI should inspire trust and confidence.
- AmI should be consistent with long term sustainability — personal, societal and environmental — and with lifelong learning.
- AmI should be made easy to live with and controllable by ordinary people.
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