Tracking the movement of people in indoor environments is useful for a variety of applications including elderly care, study of shopper behavior in shopping centers, security etc. ...
This paper defines a new, context-driven programming model for pervasive spaces. Existing models are prone to conflict, as it is hard to predict the outcome of interleaved actions ...
This paper formalizes three kinds of safety to be satisfied by networked appliances and services in the emerging home network system (HNS). The local safety is defined by safety ...
Ben Yan, Masahide Nakamura, Lydie du Bousquet, Ken...
We consider two problems related to communication between geographically distributed family members. First, we examine the problem of supporting peripheral awareness, in order to i...
We consider the problem of assisting vulnerable people and their carers to reduce the occurrence, and concomitant consequences, of accidents in the home. A wireless sensor network ...
Hamid K. Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto, Chen Wu, Pa...