: With the recent developments in technology, new and diverse devices are being introduced into the pervasive world. This has raised new challenges for the discovery of devices and...
Ayomi Bandara, Terry R. Payne, David De Roure, Tim...
The vision of pervasive or ubiquitous computing, conceived by Mark Weiser, foresees a world where computing is embedded in every day objects. Such objects interact with each other...
Pervasive and location-based games are played in the real world rather than on the screen of a computer or mobile device. This makes them difficult to study. Since players move ar...
Pervasive games provide a new type of game combining new technologies with the real environment of the players. While this already poses new challenges to the game developer, requ...
Wolfgang Broll, Jan Ohlenburg, Irma Lindt, Iris He...
Mobile social software is currently designed and conceived to afford serendipitous social interactions in densely populated urban environments. In this paper, I argue that these s...