Abstract We have explored the challenges of designing domestic services to help family and friends determine mutually agreeable times to call. In our first study, we identified a...
Kristine S. Nagel, Ja-Young Sung, Gregory D. Abowd
The increasing use of computers to manage everyday business poses problems for workers when they are away from their home environment. There are two key problems: • How can a mo...
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...
This paper presents the principles of a Home Automation System dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power ressources according to user comfort a...