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ICIA
2007
13 years 6 months ago
The Smart Personal Assistant: An Overview
The Smart Personal Assistant (SPA) enables users to access e-mail and calendar information using natural language dialogue through a PDA platform. The user interface to the SPA mu...
Wayne Wobcke, Anh Nguyen, Van Hai Ho, Alfred Krzyw...
ICDCS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outs...
Zheng Zeng, S. Yu, Wook Shin, Jennifer C. Hou
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Ambient Assisted Living Systems - The Conflicts between Technology, Acceptance, Ethics and Privacy
Installing and using AAL Smart Home-systems in the homes of older people not only offers a tremendous potential for increasing safety and quality of life but may also evoke relucta...
Wolfgang L. Zagler, Paul Panek, Marjo Rauhala
ICDCSW
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Entry Points into a Smart Campus Environment - Overview of the ETHOC System
The university campus is an interesting application environment for the ubiquitous computing paradigm: a large number of users share a substantial amount of their information need...
Michael Rohs, Jürgen Bohn
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 6 months ago
Critical perspectives on dependability: an older person's experience of assistive technology
This paper considers multiple meanings of dependability as part of a project investigating home based assistive and smart home technology for older people. It argues that because ...
Mark Blythe, Darren J. Reed, Peter C. Wright, Andr...