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HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Ubicomp4D: infrastructure and interaction for international development--the case of urban indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in midsized ur...
Nithya Sambasivan, Nimmi Rangaswamy, Ed Cutrell, B...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Discovering semantically meaningful places from pervasive RF-beacons
Detecting visits to semantically meaningful places is important for many emerging mobile applications. We present PlaceSense, a place discovery algorithm suitable for mobile devic...
Donnie H. Kim, Jeffrey Hightower, Ramesh Govindan,...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
ViridiScope: design and implementation of a fine grained power monitoring system for homes
A key prerequisite for residential energy conservation is knowing when and where energy is being spent. Unfortunately, the current generation of energy reporting devices only prov...
Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Ma...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Privately querying location-based services with SybilQuery
To usefully query a location-based service, a mobile device must typically present its own location in its query to the server. This may not be acceptable to clients that wish to ...
Pravin Shankar, Vinod Ganapathy, Liviu Iftode
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
A spotlight on security and privacy risks with future household robots: attacks and lessons
Future homes will be populated with large numbers of robots with diverse functionalities, ranging from chore robots to elder care robots to entertainment robots. While household r...
Tamara Denning, Cynthia Matuszek, Karl Koscher, Jo...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Cross-domain activity recognition
Vincent Wenchen Zheng, Derek Hao Hu, Qiang Yang
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
HydroSense: infrastructure-mediated single-point sensing of whole-home water activity
Recent work has examined infrastructure-mediated sensing as a practical, low-cost, and unobtrusive approach to sensing human activity in the physical world. This approach is based...
Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Tim Campbell, Conor Ha...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Wearable therapist: sensing garments for supporting children improve posture
This paper introduces a sensing garment to support posture coaching in children. The system measures back bending postures using acceleration sensors embedded in the garment. We p...
Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Gerhard Tröster, M...
HUC
2009
Springer
14 years 8 days ago
Encountering SenseCam: personal recording technologies in everyday life
In this paper, we present a study of responses to the idea of being recorded by a ubicomp recording technology called SenseCam. This study focused on real-life situations in two N...
David H. Nguyen, Gabriela Marcu, Gillian R. Hayes,...