Ambient intelligence (AmI) represents the functionality of environmental
systematic and automatic sensing and the corresponding proactive acting. AmI
problems belong to the domain of "being Helped": social, psychological, and
instrumental disciplines. Ubiquitous computing (UC) provides the infrastructure
to obtain environmental information and its massive processing in a non-limited
way. UC is the confluence of computing, communication, and control
technologies. It takes place regardless of the place, the time, and all other
contextual variables. The UCAmI Conference brings together AmI with its
support, that is, UC. In other words, the UACmI Conference joins UC with its
result, that is, AmI. Globally, the essence of the conference is an integral
conception that mutually empowers UC and AmI. Ideally, the recipients within an
AmI environment will not be aware of the ambient devices; however, they will
obtain benefits from the services that devices could provide. Devices embedded
within the environment are aware of the people's presence and subsequently
react to their gestures, actions, and context. Recently, interest in AmI has
grown considerably owing to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly
innovative services such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), ambient-assisted
living (AAL), e-health, Internet of Things, and home automation, among others.
We are interested in the sound development of UC and AmI because it is the only
way to properly satisfy the expectation around these excitant fields of
information, communications, and control technologies. Therefore, the main
focus of this edition of the UCAmI Conference was "Ubiquitous Computing and
Ambient Intelligence: Conceptual Framework, Methodical Development, and
Systematic Innovation". Self evaluation of expertise grade of each reviewer
reaches an average of 3,63 in an up to 5 scale. In our permanent effort to
enhance the relevance of the UCAmI Conference - beside the revision process
including 74 reviewers from 26 countries - during the conference, each session
chair was assisted by two additional session reviewers in order to intensify
the discussion with authors during their presentation. We received 62
submissions for this ninth edition of UCAmI that involved 183 authors from 16
countries. A total of 161 reviews were performed, reaching the high average of
2.60 reviews per submission. The acceptance rate was 58 %. We would like to
thank all the authors who submitted their work for consideration, as well as
the reviewers who made the considerable effort of providing detailed and
constructive reviews. Finally, we are very grateful to our colleagues who
assisted in the organization of this joint event, to the keynote presenters,
and to the speakers who presented their accepted papers. They were the essence
of the UCAmI Conference.