Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...
Passive RFID technology and unobtrusive Bluetoothenabled active tags are means to augment products and everyday objects with information technology invisible to human users. This ...
We present a study investigating two novel mobile services supporting querying for information in the urban environment using camera equipped smart phones as well as two different...
: A natural interface is one of three key technologies of Ambient Intelligence (AmI); one of its main objectives is to minimize the user’s interactive effort, which is the diffic...
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...