The broad areas represented in the Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments (JAISE) given the multi-disciplinary nature of the field and applications include:

Sensors, vision, and networks
Mobile and pervasive computing
Human-centered interfaces
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Multi-agents
Societal applications and implications
Internet of Things
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Scene and event modeling, representation, and reconstruction
Applications in health care: assisted living, fall detection, elderly care, patient monitoring, patient rehabilitation, brain-computer interfaces
Applications in smart homes: home safety, energy efficiency, entertainment, ambience, multimedia
Applications in smart buildings, smart classrooms, smart cars, in safety, energy efficiency, services
Modeling environments (homes, hospitals, transportation, roads, offices, classrooms, museums, etc)
Virtual and immersive reality, augmented reality, multi-modal immersion
Occupancy-based servicesApplications of combined pervasive / ubiquitous computing with AI
Automated system setup and environment discovery
Network middleware and protocols to facilitate SmE
Innovative sensing devices and innovative uses of existing sensors (e.g. RFID)
Use of mobile, wireless, visual, and multi-modal sensor networks in intelligent systems
Virtual smart environments, interfaces with real world, social networks as smart environments
Sensor data fusion and collaboration in multi-sensor systems and networks
Mobile/wearable intelligence
Self-adaptive AmI systems
Context awareness
Cognitive and emotional awareness
Handling preferences of the individual users and user groups
Mediating conflicting interests
Behavior modeling
Intention recognition
Agent-based approaches to AmI
Robotics applied to smart environments
Distributed and collaborative computing and reasoning
Distributed video surveillance
Intuitive user interface design, unobtrusiveness, ease of setup, ergonomics
Human interaction with autonomous systemsNon-restrictive HCI
Assistive technologies, interfaces for special groups
Educational interfaces
Multimodal interfaces
Human action and gesture interpretation
Social issues of applications of AmI/SmE
Legal Issues in AmI
Intelligent handling of privacy, security and trust
Technology adoption issues and implications
JAISE welcomes submissions of scientific papers, which will be peer-reviewed. These articles should be prepared following the journal’s official format and submitted through the official online submission system. Scientific research papers make up the core of the issues of JAISE.

JAISE also considers less technical and shorter articles for inclusion, which can be useful for the scientific community:

Short articles reporting on PhD theses recently defended in the technical areas relevant to the journal. Articles in this category are typically expected to be one page long and will contain information like the abstract of the thesis, details of the viva (date, place, members of the examination board) and a photo of the event. This article can be written by the student or by one of the supervisors.
Opinion articles and letters which can help our community to reflect, discuss or encourage debate and joint work in certain areas.
Articles in any of these two categories should also be prepared following the journal’s official format, but should not be submitted through the official submissions webpage, but sent directly to either of the co-Editors-in-Chief. These types of papers will not be peer-reviewed. The co-Editors-in-Chief will decide on the inclusion of these articles.