While apart, couples can verbally and visually communicate through existing technologies such as mobile phones, text messaging, videoconferencing and email. Yet, other important m...
The concept of “SmallConnection (abbr. SC)” is creating easy to operate tangible media for communication over networks. Focusing on the scenario where two intimate people live...
This paper discusses the Ohio University Virtual Haptic Back (VHB) project, including objectives, implementation, and initial evaluations. Haptics is the science of human tactile ...
Robert L. Williams II, Mayank Srivastava, John N. ...
Stress OutSourced (SOS) is a peer-to-peer network that allows anonymous users to send each other therapeutic massages to relieve stress. By applying the emerging concept of crowds...
The vision of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing promises that our future environments will be furnished with an increasing number of computationally augmented artifacts. Conseque...