The Internet has become an extremely popular source of entertainment and information. But, despite the growing amount of media content, most Web sites today are designed for acces...
Alan Messer, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Phuong Nguy...
Robots have entered our domestic lives, but yet, little is known about their impact on the home. This paper takes steps towards addressing this omission, by reporting results from ...
Ja-Young Sung, Lan Guo, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik...
This paper formalizes three kinds of safety to be satisfied by networked appliances and services in the emerging home network system (HNS). The local safety is defined by safety ...
Ben Yan, Masahide Nakamura, Lydie du Bousquet, Ken...
In this work, a system for recognizing activities in the home setting using a set of small and simple state-change sensors is introduced. The sensors are designed to be “tape on ...
Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, Stephen S. Intille, Kent L...
Deploying research technology in real homes is an important way of uncovering new possibilities for design. We reflect upon the deployment of a simple technological arrangement wh...