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HRI
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Service robots in the domestic environment: a study of the roomba vacuum in the home
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...
Jodi Forlizzi, Carl F. DiSalvo
EGC
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
GLIDE: A Grid-Based Light-Weight Infrastructure for Data-Intensive Environments
Abstract. The promise of the grid is that it will enable public access and sharing of immense amounts of computational and data resources among dynamic coalitions of individuals an...
Chris Mattmann, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mi...
IUI
2004
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Usability trade-offs for adaptive user interfaces: ease of use and learnability
An analysis of context-aware user interfaces shows that adaptation mechanisms have a cost-benefit trade-off for usability. Unpredictable autonomous interface adaptations can easil...
Tim F. Paymans, Jasper Lindenberg, Mark A. Neerinc...
KES
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The Correspondence Problem in Topological Metric Mapping - Using Absolute Metric Maps to Close Cycles
In Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) the correspondence problem, specifically detecting cycles, is one of the most difficult challenges for an autonomous mobile robot. ...
Margaret E. Jefferies, Michael C. Cosgrove, Jesse ...
DSRT
2003
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Real Time Inspection of Hidden Worlds
“Smart Things” are commonly understood as wireless ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous, special purpose computing appliances, usually interacting with their environment impli...
Alois Ferscha, Markus Keller