Augusto, J. C.Bohlen, M.Cook, D.Flentge, F.Marreiros, GoretiRamos, CarlosQin, WeijunSuo, Yue2013-06-032013-06-032009978-989-8111-66-1http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/1649Significant work has been done in the areas of Pervcomp/Ubicomp Smart Environments with advances on making proactive systems, but those advances have not made these type of systems accurately proactive. On the other hand a great deal is needed to make systems more sensible/sensitive and trustable (both in terms of reliability and privacy). We put forward the thesis that a more integral and social-aware sort of intelligence is needed to effectively interact, decide and act on behalf of people’s interest and that a way to test how effective systems are achieving these desirable behaviour is needed as a consequence. We support our thesis by providing examples on how to measure effectiveness in variety of different environments.engAmbient intelligenceSmart environmentsTuring testValidationconference object2013-05-22