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PUC
2006
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14 years 11 months ago
The PhotoMirror appliance: affective awareness in the hallway
This paper presents the design of PhotoMirror an intra-home communication appliance for supporting informal, lightweight communication and awareness between home inhabitants. The P...
Panos Markopoulos, Bert Bongers, Erik Alphen, Jasp...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Fast data access over asymmetric channels using fair and secure bandwidth sharing
We propose a peer-to-peer architecture designed to overcome asymmetries in upload/download speeds that are typical in end-user dialup, broadband and cellular wireless Internet con...
Sachin Agarwal, Moshe Laifenfeld, Ari Trachtenberg...
TKDE
2011
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14 years 6 months ago
Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment
—The machine learning and pervasive sensing technologies found in smart homes offer unprecedented opportunities for providing health monitoring and assistance to individuals expe...
Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook, Lawrence B. Holder,...
PERCOM
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A visual, open-ended approach to prototyping ubiquitous computing applications
By nature, ubiquitous computing applications are intimately intertwined with users' everyday life. This situation is challenging because it requires to make the development of...
Zoé Drey, Charles Consel
CHI
2003
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Technology probes: inspiring design for and with families
We describe a new methodology for designing technologies for and with families called technology probes. Technology probes are simple, flexible, adaptable technologies introduced ...
Allison Druin, Benjamin B. Bederson, Björn Ei...