Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the workshops of the 8th International Conference on IntelligentEnvironments IE 12, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, in June 2012. Topics covered in the workshops includeintelligent environments supporting healthcare and well-being artificial intelligence techniques for ambientintelligence large-scale intelligent environments intelligent domestic robots intelligent environmenttechnology in education multimodal interfaces applied in skills transfer, healthcare and rehabilitation thereliability of intelligent environments and improving industrial automation using