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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Supporting carers in their caring role through design
Carers are people who look after family, partners or friends who could not manage without them because of frailness, illness or disability. Our contribution is to show the potenti...
Andrea Taylor, Richard Wilson, Stefan Agamanolis
AMI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Agent-Based Approach to Care in Independent Living
This paper presents a multi-agent system for the care of elderly people living at home on their own, with the aim to prolong their independence. The system is composed of seven gro...
Bostjan Kaluza, Violeta Mirchevska, Erik Dovgan, M...
ICECCS
2008
IEEE
183views Hardware» more  ICECCS 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
Ambient Intelligence Applications: Introducing the Campus Framework
A challenge for pervasive computing is the seamless integration of computer support with users’ activities in a very dynamic setting, with deep human and resource mobility. Port...
Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Karin Breitman, Nicola...
FOCS
1994
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
The Power of Team Exploration: Two Robots Can Learn Unlabeled Directed Graphs
We show that two cooperating robots can learn exactly any strongly-connected directed graph with n indistinguishable nodes in expected time polynomial in n. We introduce a new typ...
Michael A. Bender, Donna K. Slonim
AIME
2011
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
Intelligent Configuration of Social Support Networks Around Depressed Persons
Helping someone who is depressed can be very important to the depressed person. When someone is experiencing depression, he or she frequently feels all alone. A number of supportiv...
Azizi Ab Aziz, Michel C. A. Klein, Jan Treur