With this work we aim to make a three-fold contribution. We first address the issue of supporting efficiently queries over string-attributes involving prefix, suffix, containmen...
This paper describes the Hapticat , a device we developed to study affect through touch. Though intentionally not highly zoomorphic, the device borrows behaviors from pets and th...
Steve Yohanan, Mavis Chan, Jeremy Hopkins, Haibo S...
Data access prediction has been proposed as a mechanism to overcome latency lag, and more recently as a means of conserving energy in mobile systems. We present a fully adaptive p...
James Larkby-Lahet, Ganesh Santhanakrishnan, Ahmed...
Camera phones have been viewed simplistically as digital cameras with poor picture quality while neglecting the utility of the two key functionalities of mobile phones: network co...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...