Abstract
The intelligent Classroom Environment (iCE) promises to convey a rich and complex environment with the aim to achieve educational excellence and to provide world-class education in the university classroom environment. The classroom, the keystone for educational environments, is our first informational computer: a long-serving, complex, physical environment that embodies the education of human-minds; yet, classrooms are becoming an inadequate environment for tech-savvy generations. The iCE is a novel creative environment with the objective of enhancing education by embedding IT, Robotics, and Interactive Physical systems into the very fabric of the classroom's design. The iCE communicates a unique and flexible setting that allows for a better educational environment. The iCE will be developed to reconfigure and retune six basic scenarios of the different tasks needed in contemporary classroom environments, calling them: the Exploration, Collaboration, Meeting, Lecturing, Lounging, and Presentation configurations. In this paper, we will present iCE's concept, design, and iCE's kinetic wall explorations, as scaled prototypes.