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HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock
We report the results of a long-term, multi-site field trial of a situated awareness device for families called the “Whereabouts Clock”. The Clock displayed family members’ c...
Barry A. T. Brown, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi, ...
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Statistical Reasoning System for Medication Prompting
We describe our experience building and using a reasoning system for providing context-based prompts to elders to take their medication. We describe the process of specification, ...
Sengul Vurgun, Matthai Philipose, Misha Pavel
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Haggle: Seamless Networking for Mobile Applications
This paper presents Haggle, an architecture for mobile devices that enables seamless network connectivity and application functionality in dynamic mobile environments. Current appl...
Jing Su, James Scott, Pan Hui, Jon Crowcroft, Eyal...
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Privacy Enhancing Technologies for RFID in Retail- An Empirical Investigation
This article investigates the conflicting area of user benefits arising through item level RFID tagging and a desire for privacy. It distinguishes between three approaches feasible...
Sarah Spiekermann
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Why It's Worth the Hassle: The Value of In-Situ Studies When Designing Ubicomp
How should Ubicomp technologies be evaluated? While lab studies are good at sensing aspects of human behavior and revealing usability problems, they are poor at capturing context o...
Yvonne Rogers, Kay Connelly, Lenore Tedesco, Willi...
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
"My Roomba Is Rambo": Intimate Home Appliances
Robots have entered our domestic lives, but yet, little is known about their impact on the home. This paper takes steps towards addressing this omission, by reporting results from ...
Ja-Young Sung, Lan Guo, Rebecca E. Grinter, Henrik...
HUC
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Symbolic Object Localization Through Active Sampling of Acceleration and Sound Signatures
We describe a novel method for symbolic location discovery of simple objects. The method requires no infrastructure and relies on simple sensors routinely used in sensor nodes and ...
Kai S. Kunze, Paul Lukowicz
FOSSACS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximating a Behavioural Pseudometric Without Discount for Probabilistic Systems
Desharnais, Gupta, Jagadeesan and Panangaden introduced a family of behavioural pseudometrics for probabilistic transition systems. These pseudometrics are a quantitative analogue ...
Franck van Breugel, Babita Sharma, James Worrell
FOSSACS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
PDL with Intersection and Converse Is 2 EXP-Complete
We study the complexity of satisfiability for the expressive extension ICPDL of PDL (Propositional Dynamic Logic), which admits intersection and converse as program operations. Ou...
Stefan Göller, Markus Lohrey, Carsten Lutz
FOSSACS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Polynomial Constraints for Sets with Cardinality Bounds
Abstract. Logics that can reason about sets and their cardinality bounds are useful in program analysis, program verification, databases, and knowledge bases. This paper presents ...
Bruno Marnette, Viktor Kuncak, Martin C. Rinard