The purpose of ubiquitous computing is anywhere and anytime access to information within computing infrastructures that is blended into a background and no longer be reminded. Thi...
Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The ...
The iStuff toolkit of physical devices, and the flexible software infrastructure to support it, were designed to simplify the exploration of novel interaction techniques in the po...
Rafael Ballagas, Meredith Ringel, Maureen C. Stone...
We present a conceptual framework for location-aware community systems and results from two studies of how sociallydefined places influence people's information sharing and c...
Quentin Jones, Sukeshini A. Grandhi, Steve Whittak...
Services in pervasive computing systems must evolve so that they become minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent proactiveness and dynamic adaptability to the current conditions, u...
Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, M...