Instant messaging has become a part of our daily live. Instant communication, either with a mobile device or with a computer based application, is an increasingly used form of com...
Research in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing has put computational devices into many social settings while leaving intact much of the "task support and informati...
How do mobility and presence feature as aspects of social life? Using a case study of paroled offenders tracked via Global Positioning System (GPS), we explore the ways that locat...
We propose a smart sound sensor for building context-aware systems that instantly learn and detect events from various kinds of everyday sounds and environmental noise by using sma...
Today, commodity technologies like mobile phones—once symbols of status and wealth—have become deeply woven into social and economic participation in Western society. Despite ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Robert G. Farrell, Jim C...