Abstract—In the emerging “Web of Things”, digitally augmented everyday objects are seamlessly integrated to the Web by reusing Web patterns such as REST. This results in an e...
We are developing robots with socially appropriate spatial skills not only to travel around or near people, but also to accompany people side-by-side. As a step toward this goal, ...
—This paper reports preliminary results of an ongoing ethnographic study of people’s attitudes towards and adoption of Google Latitude, a location-tracking technology for mobil...
Given the fracturing of virtual and physical spaces, young people are less involved in their local surrounding spaces. Yet, investing the community space is related to sense of co...
Sounds constantly occur around us, keeping us aware of our surroundings. People who are deaf have difficulty maintaining an awareness of these ambient sounds. We present an invest...