Distributed physical user interfaces comprise networked sensors, actuators and other devices attached to a variety of computers in different locations. Developing such systems is ...
Nicolai Marquardt, Tom Gross, M. Sheelagh T. Carpe...
Reducing their energy consumption has become an important objective for many people. Consumption transparency and timely feedback are essential to support those who want to adjust...
Markus Weiss, Friedemann Mattern, Tobias Graml, Th...
Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities to fully i...
Utility or preference elicitation is a critical component in many recommender and decision support systems. However, most frameworks for elicitation assume a predefined set of fe...
Type-ahead search is a new information-access paradigm, in which systems can find answers to keyword queries “onthe-fly” as a user types in a query. It improves traditional ...