Automatic adaptation of the environment to user preferences results in personalized ambients that fulfill user interaction requirements in a more suitable way. However, the proble...
The act of encountering information unexpectedly has long been identified as valuable, both as a joy in itself and as part of task-focused problem solving. There has been a concer...
Many instant messenger (IM) clients let a person specify the identifying name that appears in another person’s contact list. We have noticed that many people add extra informati...
In this paper we define an algorithm for location-independent communication of mobile software Personal Assistants (PAs). The algorithm extends the Query Server with Caching algor...
Languages are transmitted from person to person and generation to generation via a process of iterated learning: people learn a language from other people who once learned that la...