Socrates once said “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing”. I believe that being aware of your strengths and weaknesses, what motivates you and your decision making, how you learn from your mistakes and how that self-awareness changes your behavior is what makes human beings intelligent. Today, we have come to an era where many of these human traits are being embedded into our surroundings to create intelligent environments that address our needs and support us in our daily lives. But what is it that makes our environments intelligent? Does our environment deserve it to be called intelligent whenever it can deceive us into believing it is human, like in Alan Turing's test? Or do we expect something else beyond intelligent environments mimicking human behavior? It makes you want to think about how technology is intertwined with society and how we will evolve in the future.

With emerging trends like the Internet of Things, we are deploying and connecting sensors and actuators everywhere to gain information and solve problems. And people expect such systems to be trustworthy, dependable and reliable under all circumstances. However, developing intelligent environments with some common sense seems to be a lot more complicated, and we are probably more than a decade away from sophisticated networked systems exhibiting human-like thoughts and intelligent behavior. But with the growing digital divide, an intelligent environment that passes the Turing Test is not that unimaginable. Therefore, the goal of intelligent environments is not to strive towards the technological singularity, but rather to strengthen both human beings and the technology that surrounds us such that they both will learn to do better and continue to successfully fulfill many achievements. For us, researchers, educators and practitioners, there are long and interesting roads ahead.

As part of this journey, the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Environments focuses on the development of advanced intelligent environments, as well as newly emerging and rapidly evolving topics. This year, we are pleased to include in this volume the proceedings of the following workshops and symposia that cover exactly the above challenges, i.e. reliable intelligent environments – from the home to the workplace – and how we can use them for pedagogical purposes:

• 4th International Workshop on Smart Offices and Other Workplaces (SOOW'15)

• 4th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE'15)

• Symposium on Future Intelligent Educational Environments and Learning 2015 (SOFIEEe'15)

• 1st immersive Learning Research Network Conference (iLRN'15)

As can be witnessed from the above list, the workshops and symposia organized in conjunction with the main conference provide a forum for researchers, scientists and engineers to engage in many interesting and thought provoking discussions that will nurture further research in these key areas of Intelligent Environments. The proceedings compile research and insights into the latest developments of active researchers in these fields. We sincerely hope that you as a reader will enjoy the content of these proceedings, and find them an inspiration for your own work.

As a final note, the editor of this volume would like to take the opportunity to thank everybody who made these proceedings possible. First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to all the authors and researchers that pushed the boundaries of science and created new advances and insights in their field of work. Second, I am also grateful to the organizing committees of these workshops. Without your efforts these events would not have been possible. Thanks also to their program committees that contributed to the reviews of the papers. Finally, I would like to thank the conference organizers and local staff that worked relentlessly behind the scenes to provide a supportive environment and to make these events a success.

I am looking forward to seeing you all in Prague and enjoying the unique character and enthusiasm of the IE workshops.

May 2015

Davy Preuveneers, University of Leuven, Belgium

Workshops Chair of IE'15