In this paper, we propose a system called TravelScope that helps users experience virtual tours by presenting information mined from user-generated travelogues and photos. The sys...
Qiang Hao, Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Rong Xiao, Li...
For decades transnational communities of immigrants have used various forms of communication to maintain ties with their places of origin. The Internet constitutes an alternative ...
It is now possible to turn almost any object into an interface. What one must do, however is to explore the user’s needs and perceptions in order to create the metaphors necessa...
Abstract. Harness is a reconÞgurable, heterogeneous distributed metacomputing framework for the dynamic conÞguration of distributed virtual machines, through the use of parallel ...
Wael R. Elwasif, David E. Bernholdt, James Arthur ...
Ambient media have recently been introduced as a means to present information in our surrounding space in subtle and unmonopolizing ways, promoting peripheral awareness. This paper...
Albrecht Schmidt, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Michael B...