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HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
From spaces to places: emerging contexts in mobile privacy
Mobile privacy concerns are central to Ubicomp and yet remain poorly understood. We advocate a diversified approach, enabling the cross-interpretation of data from complementary m...
Clara Mancini, Keerthi Thomas, Yvonne Rogers, Blai...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Assessing demand for intelligibility in context-aware applications
Intelligibility can help expose the inner workings and inputs of context-aware applications that tend to be opaque to users due to their implicit sensing and actions. However, use...
Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Applying pervasive technologies to create economic incentives that alter consumer behavior
Economic incentives are a powerful way of shaping consumer behavior towards more commercially efficient and environmentally sustainable patterns. In this paper, we explore the id...
Tetsuo Yamabe, Vili Lehdonvirta, Hitoshi Ito, Hayu...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Personal energy consumption, specifically home energy consumption such as heating, cooling, and electricity, has been an important environmental and economic topic for decades. De...
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, ...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Understanding file access mechanisms for embedded Ubicomp collaboration interfaces
This paper explores the nature of interfaces to support people in accessing their files at tabletop displays embedded in the environment. To do this, we designed a study comparin...
Anthony Collins, Anastasia Bezerianos, Gregor McEw...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Authenticating ubiquitous services: a study of wireless hotspot access
: © Authenticating Ubiquitous Services: A Study of Wireless Hotspot Access Tim Kindberg, Chris Bevan, Eamonn O'Neill, James Mitchell, Jim Grimmett, Dawn Woodgate HP Laborator...
Tim Kindberg, Chris Bevan, Eamonn O'Neill, James M...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Sonar-based measurement of user presence and attention
We describe a technique to detect the presence of computer users. This technique relies on sonar using hardware that already exists on commodity laptop computers and other electro...
Stephen P. Tarzia, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda,...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Discovering semantically meaningful places from pervasive RF-beacons
Detecting visits to semantically meaningful places is important for many emerging mobile applications. We present PlaceSense, a place discovery algorithm suitable for mobile devic...
Donnie H. Kim, Jeffrey Hightower, Ramesh Govindan,...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
ViridiScope: design and implementation of a fine grained power monitoring system for homes
A key prerequisite for residential energy conservation is knowing when and where energy is being spent. Unfortunately, the current generation of energy reporting devices only prov...
Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Ma...