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BCSHCI
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Feasibility of content dissemination between devices in moving vehicles
We investigate the feasibility of content distribution between devices mounted in moving vehicles using commodity WiFi. We assume that each device stores content in a set of files...
Thomas Zahn, Greg O'Shea, Antony I. T. Rowstron
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Bartendr: a practical approach to energy-aware cellular data scheduling
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...
Aaron Schulman, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee,...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Detecting the performance impact of upgrades in large operational networks
Networks continue to change to support new applications, improve reliability and performance and reduce the operational cost. The changes are made to the network in the form of up...
Ajay Anil Mahimkar, Han Hee Song, Zihui Ge, Aman S...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
LokVaani: demonstrating interactive voice in Lo3
In this work, we consider the goal of enabling effective voice communication in a TDMA, multi-hop mesh network, using low cost and low power platforms. We consider two primary usa...
Vijay Gabale, Bhaskaran Raman, Kameswari Chebrolu,...