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The Intelligent Environments Group (IEG) is part of the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at University of Essex in Colchester. Our group is involved in developing methods and systems whose primary goal is to support people living in ubiquitous computing environments. The vision of  Ubiquitous Computing, as described by Mark Weiser, is about many visible and invisible computing devices all working together in providing anytime, anywhere support to end users while also ensuring a perfect symbiosis between humans and computers through Calm Computing. Our multiple research projects study various aspects of the science necessary for achieving such visions, involving areas such as affective computing,  computational intelligence, context awareness, embedded computing, end-user programming, HCI,  intelligent agents, mixed-reality, mobile computing, networks, sensing, service provisioning, socio-technical studies, speech dialogue,  system infrastructure, theory etc.  There exists a huge diversity of Intelligent Environments with examples including homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, shops, hospitals, teaching-rooms, stage/studios, manufacturing environments, cars, trains, aircraft, boats, cities, public spaces and electronic clothing/fashion. In general, we apply our research to make living environments that, for example,  are more comfortable, usable, productive, secure, caring, social, entertaining or energy efficient.