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ICPR
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 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
15 years 10 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 4 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 4 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 2 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