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PERVASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Objects Calling Home: Locating Objects Using Mobile Phones
Locating physical items is a highly relevant application addressed by numerous systems. Many of these systems share the drawback that costly infrastructure must be installed before...
Christian Frank, Philipp Bolliger, Christof Rodune...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A Capacitive Sensing Toolkit for Pervasive Activity Detection and Recognition
In this paper we present a toolkit for realizing capacitive sensing applications for human-computer interaction in pervasive computing systems. We argue that capacitive sensors - ...
Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, ...
UCS
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Activity Recognition Based on Intra and Extra Manipulation of Everyday Objects
Recognizing activities based on an actor’s interaction with everyday objects is an important research approach within ubiquitous computing. We present a recognition approach whic...
Dipak Surie, Fabien Lagriffoul, Thomas Pederson, D...
BSN
2006
IEEE
130views Sensor Networks» more  BSN 2006»
14 years 1 months ago
Sensing Muscle Activities with Body-Worn Sensors
We demonstrate that simple, unobtrusive sensors attached to the lower arm can be used to capture muscle activations during specific hand and arm activities such as grasping. Spec...
Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, ...
PUC
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
Designing home availability services
Abstract We have explored the challenges of designing domestic services to help family and friends determine mutually agreeable times to call. In our first study, we identified a...
Kristine S. Nagel, Ja-Young Sung, Gregory D. Abowd