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2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Wearable therapist: sensing garments for supporting children improve posture
This paper introduces a sensing garment to support posture coaching in children. The system measures back bending postures using acceleration sensors embedded in the garment. We p...
Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster, M...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A spotlight on security and privacy risks with future household robots: attacks and lessons
Future homes will be populated with large numbers of robots with diverse functionalities, ranging from chore robots to elder care robots to entertainment robots. While household r...
Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Jo...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Discovering semantically meaningful places from pervasive RF-beacons
Detecting visits to semantically meaningful places is important for many emerging mobile applications. We present PlaceSense, a place discovery algorithm suitable for mobile devic...
Donnie H. Kim, Jeffrey Hightower, Ramesh Govindan,...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
HUC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Sonar-based measurement of user presence and attention
We describe a technique to detect the presence of computer users. This technique relies on sonar using hardware that already exists on commodity laptop computers and other electro...
Stephen P. Tarzia, Robert P. Dick, Peter A. Dinda,...