Sciweavers

2541 search results - page 96 / 509
» Ubiquitous computing: by the people, for the people
Sort
View
ICPR
2002
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Person Identification Using Automatic Height and Stride Estimation
We present a parametric method to automatically identify people in monocular low-resolution video by estimating the height and stride parameters of their gait. Stride parameters (...
Chiraz BenAbdelkader, Ross Cutler, Larry S. Davis
CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
You're getting warmer!: how proximity information affects search behavior in physical spaces
This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximitysensing system designed to help end-users locate people, pl...
Leila Takayama, Lawrence Leung, Xiaodong Jiang, Ja...
CHI
2010
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Rethinking RFID: awareness and control for interaction with RFID systems
People now routinely carry radio frequency identification (RFID) tags – in passports, driver’s licenses, credit cards, and other identifying cards – where nearby RFID reader...
Nicolai Marquardt, Alex S. Taylor, Nicolas Villar,...
ICDCSW
2009
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
A MANET Based Emergency Communication and Information System for Catastrophic Natural Disasters
When stricken by a catastrophic natural disaster, emergency rescue operation is very critical to many lives. Many people trapped in the disastrous areas under collapsed buildings ...
Yao-Nan Lien, Hung-Chin Jang, Tzu-Chieh Tsai
CHI
1994
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
User preferences for task-specific vs. generic application software
We conducted an ethnographic study to investigate the use of generic vs. task-specific application software by people who create and maintain presentation slides. Sixteen people w...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Jeff A. Johnson