Mobile social software is currently designed and conceived to afford serendipitous social interactions in densely populated urban environments. In this paper, I argue that these s...
CoolSpots enable a wireless mobile device to automatically switch between multiple radio interfaces, such as WiFi and Bluetooth, in order to increase battery lifetime. The main co...
Trevor Pering, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta, Ro...
Abstract. Policies, sets of rules that govern permission to access resources, have long been used in computer security and online privacy management; however, the usability of auth...
Robert W. Reeder, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat, C...
Voicemail is a pervasive, but under-researched tool for workplace communication. Despite potential advantages of voicemail over email, current phone-based voicemail UIs are highly...
Steve Whittaker, Richard Davis, Julia Hirschberg, ...
The Ambient Kitchen is a high fidelity prototype for exploring the design of pervasive computing algorithms and applications for everyday environments. The environment integrates ...
Patrick Olivier, Guangyou Xu, Andrew Monk, Jesse H...