Abstract. Although mobile hand-held devices (MHDs) are ubiquitous today, little is know about how they are used--especially at home. In this paper, we cast a first look on mobile h...
Abstract. Mobile phones are increasingly becoming ubiquitous computational devices that are almost always available, individually adaptable, and nearly universally connectable (usi...
Christof Roduner, Marc Langheinrich, Christian Flo...
The design of existing mobile phone technology has emphasised the primacy of person-to-person communication for voice, SMS and image-based communication. It may be contrasted with...
Kenton O'Hara, Richard H. R. Harper, Axel Unger, J...
Abstract. The paper presents the specification, development and initial performance evaluation of the Simplicity Device (SD), which is one of the key components of the SIMPLICITY A...
J. Papanis, Sofia Kapellaki, Eleftherios Koutsolou...
A smart home aims at building intelligence automation with a goal to provide its inhabitants with maximum possible comfort, minimize the resource consumption and thus overall cost...