Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer, requ...
Wolfgang Broll, Jan Ohlenburg, Irma Lindt, Iris He...
Future space missions, such as Mars Science Laboratory, are built upon computing platforms providing a high degree of autonomy and diverse functionality. The increased sophisticat...
Damian Dechev, Peter Pirkelbauer, Nicolas Rouquett...
Evaluating the usability of an application is a crucial activity in systems development projects. It is often done collaboratively, involving groups of current or future users, us...
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Ann L. Fruhling, Anita Chakrap...
Power consumption is a troublesome design constraint for emergent systems such as IBM’s BlueGene /L. If current trends continue, future petaflop systems will require 100 megawat...
The interaction of an autonomous mobile robot with the real world critically depends on the robots morphology and on its environment. Building a model of these aspects is extremel...