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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Responsiveness in instant messaging: predictive models supporting inter-personal communication
For the majority of us, inter-personal communication is an essential part of our daily lives. Instant Messaging, or IM, has been growing in popularity for personal and workrelated...
Daniel Avrahami, Scott E. Hudson
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Composcan: adaptive scanning for efficient concurrent communications and positioning with 802.11
Using 802.11 concurrently for communications and positioning is problematic, especially if location-based services (e.g., indoor navigation) are concurrently executed with real-ti...
Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Thomas King
TSP
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Channel energy based estimation of target trajectories using distributed sensors with low communication rate
Abstract--Sensor localization using channel energy measurements of distributed sensors has been studied in various scenarios. However, it is usually assumed that the target does no...
Christian R. Berger, Sora Choi, Shengli Zhou, Pete...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Beth E. Kolko, Emma J. Rose, Erica J. Johnson
MOBICOM
2006
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Low-cost communication for rural internet kiosks using mechanical backhaul
Rural kiosks in developing countries provide a variety of services such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, electricity bill collection, land records, email services, and...
Aaditeshwar Seth, D. Kroeker, Matei A. Zaharia, Sh...