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The paper tries to point out the benefits that can be derived from researchadvances in the implementation of concepts such as ambient intelligence (AmI)and ubiquitous or pervasive computing for promoting Universal Access (UA) tothe Information Society, that is, for contributing to enable everybody,especially Physically Disabled (PD) people, to have easy access to allcomputing resources and information services that the coming worldwideInformation Society will soon make available to the general public. Followingdefinitions of basic concepts relating to multimodal interaction, thesignificant contribution of multimodality to developing UA is briefly argued.Then, a short state of the art in AmI research is presented. In the lastsection we bring out the potential contribution of advances in AmI research andtechnology to the improvement of computer access for PD people. This claim issupported by the following observations: (i) most projects aiming atimplementing AmI focus on the design of new interaction modalities and flexiblemultimodal user interfaces which may facilitate PD users' computer access ;(ii) targeted applications will support users in a wide range of dailyactivities which will be performed simultaneously with supporting computingtasks; therefore, users will be placed in contexts where they will beconfronted with similar difficulties to those encountered by PD users; (iii)AmI applications being intended for the general public, a wide range of newinteraction devices and flexible processing software will be available, makingit possible to provide PD users with human-computer facilities tailored totheir specific needs at reasonable expense..

Ambient Multimodality: an Asset for Developing Universal Access to the Information Society