This paperintroduces the notion of “universalinteraction,” allowing a device to adapt its functionality to exploit services it discovers as it moves into a new environment. Us...
Todd D. Hodes, Randy H. Katz, Edouard Servan-Schre...
A trend in computing environments today is to move towards more ‘natural’ interaction, another is to make hardware invisible to the user. Both these ideas converge into ubiqui...
The explosive growth of location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices and handheld devices) along with wireless communications and mobile databases results in realizing locati...
— Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location ...
Abstract. So-called "Smart Dust" is envisioned to combine sensing, computing, and wireless communication capabilities in an autonomous, dust-grain-sized device. Dense net...