Ambient Inteligence aims to create smart spaces providing services in a transparent and non-intrusive fashion, so context awareness and user adaptation are key issues. Speech can ...
This paper explores the potential for use of an unaugmented commodity technology—the mobile phone— as a health promotion tool. We describe a prototype application that tracks t...
Ian Anderson, Julie Maitland, Scott Sherwood, Loui...
Humans use computers to carry out tasks that neither is able to do easily alone: humans provide eyes, hands, and judgment while computers provide computation, networking, and stor...
Elsa L. Gunter, Ayesha Yasmeen, Carl A. Gunter, An...
The phenomenal growth of video on the web and the increasing sparseness of meta information associated with it forces us to look for signals from the video content for search/info...
Ming Zhao 0003, Jay Yagnik, Hartwig Adam, David Ba...
Distributed databases and other networked information systems use copies or mirrors to reduce latency and to increase availability. Copies need to be refreshed. In a loosely coupl...