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HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
WatchMe: Communication and Awareness Between Members of a Closely-Knit Group
WatchMe is a personal communicator with context awareness in a wristwatch form; it is meant to keep intimate friends and family always connected via awareness cues and text, voice ...
Natalia Marmasse, Chris Schmandt, David Spectre
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Carrot Approach: Encouraging Use of Location Systems
The Active Bat system provides the ability to locate users and equipment with a high degree of accuracy and coverage. Despite this, participation is low. We are concerned that this...
Kieran Mansley, Alastair R. Beresford, David Scott
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Infrastructures and Their Discontents: Implications for Ubicomp
Abstract. Infrastructures (persistent socio-technical systems over which services are delivered) are normally taken for granted by their users, but are powerful forces of constrain...
Scott D. Mainwaring, Michele F. Chang, Ken Anderso...
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The NearMe Wireless Proximity Server
Abstract. NearMe is a server, algorithms, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for clients equipped with 802.11 wireless networking (Wi-Fi) to compute lists of people and ...
John Krumm, Ken Hinckley
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Reminding About Tagged Objects Using Passive RFIDs
People often misplace objects they care about. We present a system that generates reminders about objects left behind by tagging those objects with passive RFID tags. Readers posit...
Gaetano Borriello, Waylon Brunette, Matthew Hall, ...
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Error of Our Ways: The Experience of Self-Reported Position in a Location-Based Game
We present a study of people’s use of positional information as part of a collaborative location-based game. The game exploits self-reported positioning in which mobile players m...
Steve Benford, Will Seager, Martin Flintham, Rob A...
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Some Assembly Required: Supporting End-User Sensor Installation in Domestic Ubiquitous Computing Environments
This paper explores end-user sensor installation for domestic ubiquitous computing applications and proposes five design principles to support this task. End-user sensor installati...
Chris Beckmann, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca
HUC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Everyday Encounters with Context-Aware Computing in a Campus Environment
As ubiquitous computing technologies mature, they must move out of laboratory settings and into the everyday world. In the process, they will increasingly be used by heterogeneous ...
Louise Barkhuus, Paul Dourish