Abstract. There is increasing interest in location-aware systems and applications. It is important for any designer of such systems and applications to understand the nature of use...
This paper presents HomeViews, a peer-to-peer middleware system for building personal data management applications. HomeViews provides abstractions and services for data organizat...
Roxana Geambasu, Magdalena Balazinska, Steven D. G...
Through a study of field biology practices, we observed that biology fieldwork generates a wealth of heterogeneous information, requiring substantial labor to coordinate and disti...
Ron B. Yeh, Chunyuan Liao, Scott R. Klemmer, Fran&...
Why do people access information via the mobile Internet? This qualitative study examines a group of active users and proposes a new preliminary framework for understanding their ...
Carol A. Taylor, Ona Anicello, Scott Somohano, Nan...
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...