In this paper we describe the material of a construction kit designed to allow children to build their own handheld and wearable devices to meet their interests and passions. Child...
Bakhtiar Mikhak, Fred Martin, Mitchel Resnick, Rob...
Photographs have significant social roles. For example, they help families and friends to preserve an affective link and provide a support for communication. The increasing popular...
BUILD-IT is a planning tool based on computer vision technology, supporting complex planning and composition tasks. A group of people, seated around a table, interact with objects ...
Morten Fjeld, Fred Voorhorst, Martin Bichsel, Kris...
Many novel applications take on the task of moving the personal computer away from the desktop with the approach to merge digital information with physical space and objects. These...
We live in a three dimensional world, and much of what we do and how we interact in the physical world has a strong spatial component. Unfortunately, most of our interaction with t...
This paper introduces the notion of profile-based cooperation as a way to support awareness and informal communication between mobile users during chance encounters. We describe th...
Gerd Kortuem, Zary Segall, Thaddeus G. Cowan Thomp...
This paper considers the role of network connectivity in supporting context-sensitive applications. A range of context-sensitive applications are analysed with respect to connectiv...
Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adri...
Abstract. Many electric appliances have recently become network reachable, and we would receive better services from them if we could use them in combination. We have therefore dev...
Systems must provide for mobile applications to be aware of the context in which they are being used. This is necessary to permit adaptation to heterogeneity of hosts and networks...