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PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Supporting Persistent Social Groups in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Using Context-Aware Ephemeral Group Service
In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the s...
Bin Wang, John Bodily, Sandeep K. S. Gupta
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Augmenting Film and Video Footage with Sensor Data
With the advent of tiny networked devices, Mark Weiser's vision of a world embedded with invisible computers is coming to age. Due to their small size and relative ease of dep...
Norman Makoto Su, Heemin Park, Eric Bostrom, Jeff ...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic Federation of Partitioned Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments
A framework for the dynamic aggregation of ubiquitous computers is presented. The framework aggregates applications from more than one mobile component that can migrate from compu...
Ichiro Satoh
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Drishti: An Integrated Indoor/Outdoor Blind Navigation System and Service
There are many navigation systems for visually impaired people but few can provide dynamic interactions and adaptability to changes. None of these systems work seamlessly both ind...
Lisa Ran, Sumi Helal, Steve Moore
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Energy-Aware Media Transcoding in Wireless Systems
In distributed systems, transcoding techniques have been used to customize multimedia objects, utilizing trade-offs between the quality and sizes of these objects to provide diffe...
Christian Poellabauer, Karsten Schwan
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An Augmented Virtual Reality Interface for Assistive Monitoring of Smart Spaces
Large sensor networks in applications such as surveillance and virtual classrooms, have to deal with the explosion of sensor information. Coherent presentation of data coming from...
Shichao Ou, Deepak R. Karuppiah, Andrew H. Fagg, E...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Learning to Detect User Activity and Availability from a Variety of Sensor Data
Using a networked infrastructure of easily available sensors and context-processing components, we are developing applications for the support of workplace interactions. Notions o...
Dave Snowdon, Jean-Luc Meunier, Martin Mühlen...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MediaBroker: An Architecture for Pervasive Computing
We present MediaBroker, a distributed framework designed to support pervasive computing applications. Specifically, we propose an architecture consisting of a transport engine and...
Martin Modahl, Ilya Bagrak, Matthew Wolenetz, Phil...
PERCOM
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Denial-of-Service Attacks on Battery-powered Mobile Computers
Sleep deprivation attacks are a form of denial of service attack whereby an attacker renders a pervasive computing device inoperable by draining the battery more quickly than it w...
Thomas L. Martin, Michael S. Hsiao, Dong S. Ha, Ja...