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2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Peripheral Telecommunications: Supporting Distributed Awareness and Seamless Transitions to the Foreground
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...
Yosuke Kinoe, Jeremy R. Cooperstock
IROS
2006
IEEE
116views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
15 years 5 months ago
A Sensitive Skin for Robotic Companions Featuring Temperature, Force, and Electric Field Sensors
- 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...
Walter Dan Stiehl, Cynthia Breazeal
EUC
2005
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Ubiquitous Content Formulations for Real-Time Information Communications
Abstract. With rapid advancements in wireless devices, ubiquitous computing seems becoming a reality everyday. Active pervasive network infrastructure has been introduced to offer...
Ka Lun Eddie Law, Sunny So
GROUP
2010
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
The effects of life disruptions on home technology routines
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...
Jill P. Dimond, Erika Shehan Poole, Sarita Yardi
RTCSA
2008
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
A Framework for Designing Embedded Real-Time Controllers
Control systems are typically designed assuming an ideal behavior of the computing infrastructure where controllers execute. In practice, however, in highly loaded computing syste...
Yifan Wu, Enrico Bini, Giorgio C. Buttazzo