In this paper we discuss research work that enables the development of mixed societies of communicating plants and artefacts. PLANTS is an EUfunded Research and Development project...
The topic of this paper is rich interaction. Rich interaction borrows from tangible interaction and the concept of affordances. This is achieved through integral design of form, in...
Joep W. Frens, J. P. Djajadiningrat, Kees C. J. Ov...
We put forth a proposal for a system that creates an augme environment where devices allow for an integrated capture of informa a social gathering (e.g. pictures, audio recordings,...
Context-aware services platforms aim at supporting the handling of contextual information in order to provide better user-tailored services. This paper addresses our current effort...
Today, most mobile devices (e.g. PDAs) are in some way associated to a fixed personal computer or server. In general this relation is only taken into account for synchronization p...
Service discovery is a process of locating, or discovering, one or more documents, that describe a particular service. Most of the current service discovery approaches perform synt...
Tom Broens, Stanislav Pokraev, Marten van Sinderen...
Abstract. With the emerging mass production of very small, cheap Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, it is becoming feasible to deploy such tags on a large scale. In this ...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a tangible cube as an input device for playfully changing between different TV-channels. First we consider several design approaches and compare ...
Florian Block, Albrecht Schmidt, Nicolas Villar, H...
Because of their severe resource-restrictions and limited user interfaces, smart everyday objects must often rely on remote resources to realize their services. This paper shows ho...
In this paper we describe the issues that need to be addressed when setting up an aware environment occupied simultaneously by several users. Combining the delivery of services for...