— Social robots face the fundamental challenge of detecting and adapting their behavior to the current social mood. For example, robots that assist teachers in early education mu...
This paper presents the main results of a three-year long field and design study of proactive information technology in the home. This technology uses sensors to track human activ...
Ilpo Koskinen, Kristo Kuusela, Katja Battarbee, An...
The tension between privacy and awareness has been a persistent difficulty in distributed environments that support opportunistic and informal interaction. For example, many aware...
We report on our ongoing practical experience in designing, implementing, and deploying PTIME, a personalized agent for time management and meeting scheduling in an open, multi-ag...
Pauline Berry, Bart Peintner, Ken Conley, Melinda ...
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems’ efficiency with onboa...