Physical boundaries have caused software systems to become less monolithic and more distributed. The trend is progressing to a point where software systems will consist of numerous...
The classical role of a firewall consists in protecting a computer network against attacks from the outside world, especially the Internet. Firewalls are often expensive, hard to c...
Ernst Georg Haffner, Thomas Engel, Christoph Meine...
: Spontaneous interaction in public places has evolved as crucial concern in interaction design, particularly in the domain of public advertising. Implicit interaction is a mode of...
Alois Ferscha, Wolfram Swoboda, Christoph Wimberge...
Pervasive environments can be hard to configure and interact with using handheld computing devices, due to the mismatch between physical and digital worlds. Usually, smart resourc...
Although the intrinsic physicality of human beings has not changed in millennia, the species has managed to profoundly reconstitute the physical and social world it inhabits. Alth...