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HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 1 months ago
Propinquity: exploring embodied gameplay
Consumer game platforms are realizing Ubicomp's vision of seamless, sensor-based, embodied interaction with computation. Here we present Propinquity, a full-body dancing/figh...
Amanda Williams, Lynn Hughes, Bart Simon
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Supporting self-expression for informal communication
Mobile phones are becoming the central tools for communicating and can help us keep in touch with friends and family on-the-go. However, they can also place high demands on attent...
Lisa G. Cowan
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Locaccino: a privacy-centric location sharing application
Locaccino is a location sharing application designed to empower users to effectively control their privacy. It has been piloted by close to 2000 users and has been used by researc...
Eran Toch, Justin Cranshaw, Paul Hankes Drielsma, ...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Exploring inter-child behavioral relativity in a shared social environment: a field study in a kindergarten
A kindergarten is an interesting community of young children. The children continuously share their interactions and experiences, and grow along similar developmental stages. In t...
Inseok Hwang, Hyukjae Jang, Lama Nachman, Junehwa ...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
A holistic multipurpose life-log framework
Life-log systems have a wide range of usages from memory augmentation to health monitoring. Recent advances in pervasive devices and sensor networks enable us to create tools that...
Reza Rawassizadeh
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
EnergyLife: pervasive energy awareness for households
We present Energy Life a system utilizing wireless sensors, mobile and ambient interfaces that turn energy consumers into active players. Energy Life participants play through dif...
Christoffer Björkskog, Giulio Jacucci, Lucian...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
UBI challenge workshop 2010: real world urban computing
This workshop promotes ubiquitous computing research in authentic urban setting, with real users and with sufficient scale and time span. We first motivate why such research is im...
Timo Ojala, Jukka Riekki
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Routine as resource for the design of learning systems
Even though the coordination of kids’ activities is largely successful, the modern dual income family still regularly experiences breakdowns in their practices. Families often r...
Scott Davidoff
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Vehicular speed estimation using received signal strength from mobile phones
This paper introduces an algorithm that estimates the speed of a mobile phone by matching time-series signal strength data to a known signal strength trace from the same road. Kno...
Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Alexander Varshav...
HUC
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Bayesian recognition of motion related activities with inertial sensors
This work presents the design and evaluation of an activity recognition system for seven important motion related activities. The only sensor used is an Inertial Measurement Unit ...
Korbinian Frank, Maria Josefa Vera Nadales, Patric...