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CHI
2005
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Breakaway: an ambient display designed to change human behavior
We present Breakaway, an ambient display that encourages people, whose job requires them to sit for long periods of time, to take breaks more frequently. Breakaway uses the inform...
Nassim Jafarinaimi, Jodi Forlizzi, Amy Hurst, John...
AMI
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Designing an Awareness Display for Senior Home Care Professionals
Home care professionals play a central role in supporting elderly people when they need help to continue living in their own homes. Using awareness systems, caregivers might better...
Martijn H. Vastenburg, Robbert J. Vroegindeweij
TEI
2010
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Shape-changing mobiles: tapering in one-dimensional deformational displays in mobile phones
In this paper, we present a new shape-based display technique for mobile phones: A rotatory deformation of the phone’s chassis, resulting in a tapering between the phone’s fro...
Fabian Hemmert, Susann Hamann, Matthias Löwe,...
SWWS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Modal Health and Activity Monitoring Framework for Elderly People at Home
- Since the population of elderly people grows absolutely and in relation to the overall population in the world, the improvement of the quality of life of elderly people at home i...
Ross Velentzas, Andy Marsh, Christos Biniaris, Jer...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Tableau machine: an alien presence in the home
Research in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing has put computational devices into many social settings while leaving intact much of the "task support and informati...
Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman, Michael Mateas