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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
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Interweaving mobile games with everyday life
We introduce a location?based game called Feeding Yoshi that provides an example of seamful design, in which key characteristics of its underlying technologies--the coverage and s...
Marek Bell, Matthew Chalmers, Louise Barkhuus, Mal...
COMPLIFE
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Robust Perron Cluster Analysis for Various Applications in Computational Life Science
In the present paper we explain the basic ideas of Robust Perron Cluster Analysis (PCCA+) and exemplify the different application areas of this new and powerful method. Recently, ...
Marcus Weber, Susanna Kube
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Threshold devices: looking out from the home
Threshold devices present information gathered from the home's surroundings to give new views on the domestic situation. We built two prototypes of different threshold device...
William W. Gaver, Andy Boucher, Andy Law, Sarah Pe...
PERVASIVE
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Portable, But Not Mobile: A Study of Wireless Laptops in the Home
Abstract. We report a qualitative study of the use of physical space and wireless laptops by ten United States households. Although wireless laptops purportedly offer the opportuni...
Allison Woodruff, Ken Anderson, Scott D. Mainwarin...