We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
- As robots become an everyday part of the complicated environment of the human world it will be important for such systems to feature a full body sense of touch capable of detecti...
Abstract. With rapid advancements in wireless devices, ubiquitous computing seems becoming a reality everyday. Active pervasive network infrastructure has been introduced to offer...
Conflict and disruption are a part of everyday life, yet research in the home largely examines consensus and rituals. In this paper, we use Holmes and Rahe's categorization o...
Control systems are typically designed assuming an ideal behavior of the computing infrastructure where controllers execute. In practice, however, in highly loaded computing syste...