Energy use in the home is a topic of increasing interest and concern, and one on which technology can have a significant impact. However, existing work typically focuses on modera...
We present WATTR, a novel self-powered water activity sensor that utilizes residential water pressure impulses as both a powering and sensing source. Consisting of a power harvest...
Tim Campbell, Eric Larson, Gabe Cohn, Ramses Alcai...
(a) (b) Figure 1: (a) CAM running on an iPhone; (b) Reading a design sketch using Microsoft's TagReader client. In this paper, we report the results of a field trial of a Ubi...
Dhaval Vyas, Anton Nijholt, Dirk Heylen, Alexander...
Researchers have detailed the importance of routines in how people live and work, while also cautioning system designers about the importance of people's idiosyncratic behavi...
We reflect on activities to design a mobile application to enable rural people in South Africa's Eastern Cape to record and share their stories, which have implications for `...
Nicola J. Bidwell, Thomas Reitmaier, Gary Marsden,...