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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
WattBot: a residential electricity monitoring and feedback system
Electricity production emits carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere, adversely influences global climate change, depletes limited natural resources, and negatively imp...
Dane Petersen, Jay Steele, Joe Wilkerson
KDD
2009
ACM
150views Data Mining» more  KDD 2009»
14 years 11 months ago
Large human communication networks: patterns and a utility-driven generator
Given a real, and weighted person-to-person network which changes over time, what can we say about the cliques that it contains? Do the incidents of communication, or weights on t...
Nan Du, Christos Faloutsos, Bai Wang, Leman Akoglu
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems
In this work, we study the security of public WLAN-based positioning systems. Specifically, we investigate the Skyhook positioning system, available on PCs and used on a number of...
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Chri...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Activity sensing in the wild: a field trial of ubifit garden
Recent advances in small inexpensive sensors, low-power processing, and activity modeling have enabled applications that use on-body sensing and machine learning to infer people&#...
Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald, Tammy Toscos, M...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Designs on dignity: perceptions of technology among the homeless
Technology, it is argued, has the potential to improve everyone's life: from the workplace, to entertainment, to easing chores around the home. But what of people who have ne...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, W. Keith Edwards