This paper addresses the content overload problem applied to photo retrieval activities in the home environment. The starting point is an analysis of the main activities that users...
Dario Teixeira, Wim F. J. Verhaegh, Miguel Ferreir...
This invited talk starts out with a review of the previously developed Roomware® concept and sample prototypes as an approach for designing new forms of interaction and collaborat...
This paper discusses a computer vision based approach for enhancing a physical environment with machine perception. Using techniques for assessing the distance and orientation of a...
This paper describes the design and architecture of a multimodal interface for controlling a mobile robot. The architecture is build up from standardized components and uses Speech...
In this paper, we describe methods to localize a mobile robot in an indoor environment from visual information. An appearance-based approach is adopted in which the environment is ...
The Personal Assistant for onLine Services (PALS) project aims at attuning the interaction with mobile services to the momentary usage context. Among other thing, PALS should adequ...
In this paper, we present an intelligent and controllable ad hoc network using mobile robot routers in heterogeneous mobile environments. The goal of the mobile robots is to ensur...
Rabah Meraihi, Gwendal Le Grand, Samir Tohmé...
People meet in order to interact - disseminating information, making decisions, and creating new ideas. Automatic analysis of meetings is therefore important from two points of vie...
Iain McCowan, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Samy Bengio, Da...
User mobility in an Active Office represents human activity in a context awareness and ambient intelligent environment. This paper describes user mobility by detecting their changi...
Due to bandwidth constraint and dynamic topology of mobile ad hoc networks, supporting Quality of Service (QoS) is a challenging task. In this paper we present a complete solution...