In this Special Interest Group (SIG) we plan to focus on discussions and activities surrounding the design of technologies to support families. Many researchers and designers stud...
Carman Neustaedter, Svetlana Yarosh, A. J. Bernhei...
Network topology design problems find application in several real life scenarios. However, most designs in the past either optimize for a single criterion like delay or assume sim...
As robots enter everyday life and start to interact with ordinary people the question of their appearance becomes increasingly important. A user’s perception of a robot can be s...
Mike Blow, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Andrew Appleby, Chr...
Abstract. The emerging field of synthetic biology moves beyond conventional genetic manipulation to construct novel life forms which do not originate in nature. We explore the pro...
Bei Wang, Dimitris Papamichail, Steffen Mueller, S...
This paper briefly shows how product designers as well as information system designers may use the habitat framework as a tool to inform their understanding of the pervasive compu...