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PETRA
2009
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Towards a social fabric for pervasive assistive environments
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cann...
Clare Owens, David E. Millard, Andrew Stanford-Cla...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
InPhase: evaluation of a communication system focused on "happy coincidences" of daily behaviors
To supplement existing forms of communication such as telephone and e-mail, this research proposes a new method of communicating “awareness” between people who are separated b...
Hitomi Tsujita, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio
ICRA
2008
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
Person tracking on a mobile robot with heterogeneous inter-characteristic feedback
— For a mobile robot that interacts with humans such as a home assistant or a tour guide robot, tracking a particular person among multiple persons is a fundamental, yet challeng...
Juhyun Lee, Peter Stone
SECON
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Cue-Based Networking Using Wireless Sensor Networks: A Video-over-IP Application
—In this paper we present a new approach called cue-based networking that uses hints or cues about the physical environment to optimize networked application behavior. We define...
Yeonsik Jeong, Sriram Lakshmanan, Sandeep Kakumanu...
MOBIQUITOUS
2007
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Self-Managed Cell: A Middleware for Managing Body-Sensor Networks
Abstract— Body sensor networks consisting of low-power onbody wireless sensors attached to mobile users will be used in the future to monitor the health and well being of patient...
Sye Loong Keoh, Naranker Dulay, Emil Lupu, Kevin P...