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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Opening up the family archive
The Family Archive device is an interactive multi-touch tabletop technology with integrated capture facility for the archiving of sentimental artefacts and memorabilia. It was dev...
David S. Kirk, Shahram Izadi, Abigail Sellen, Stua...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards
CHI
2002
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A different kind of information appliance: fridge companion
A prototype device is described that allows a user to understand and contemplate the inner workings of a common home appliance, the refrigerator. The device monitors select physic...
Marc Böhler
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment
This paper gives a technical description of Creatures, a commercial home-entertainment software package. Creatures provides a simulated environment in which exist a number of synt...
Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff, Anil Malhotra
AINA
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic Web Services on a Home Service Platform
The Home Network is a pervasive environment by nature. Its openness to dynamic distributed and heterogeneous devices brings great challenges in home application design. We present...
André Bottaro, Eric Simon, Stéphane ...