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PERCOM
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Sharing using social networks in a composable Web of Things
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...
Dominique Guinard, Mathias Fischer, Vlad Trifa
HRI
2007
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Natural person-following behavior for social robots
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, ...
Rachel Gockley, Jodi Forlizzi, Reid G. Simmons
CSE
2009
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
The Circles of Latitude: Adoption and Usage of Location Tracking in Online Social Networking
—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...
Xinru Page, Alfred Kobsa
ACMIDC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Semiotics artifacts, space and community: a case study on pinholes
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...
Françoise Decortis, Laura Lentini
ASSETS
2005
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Visualizing non-speech sounds for the deaf
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...
Tara Matthews, Janette Fong, Jennifer Mankoff