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FLAIRS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Ontologies in Case-Based Activity Recognition
Pervasive computing requires the ability to detect user activity in order to provide situation-specific services. Case-based reasoning can be used for activity recognition by usin...
Stephen Knox, Lorcan Coyle, Simon Dobson
WICSA
2007
14 years 21 days ago
Architecting Pervasive Computing Systems for Privacy: A Survey
In pervasive computing systems, a higher number of interactions will be mediated by computers, amplifying the menace to privacy. Privacy protection in pervasive environments is st...
Roberto Speicys Cardoso, Valérie Issarny
BCSHCI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Habitats: a simple way to bridge artifacts, professions, and theories in ubiquitous design
This paper briefly shows how product designers as well as information system designers may use the habitat framework as a tool to inform their understanding of the pervasive compu...
Martin Brynskov, Gunnar Kramp
MDM
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Mobile Agents: Can They Assist with Context Awareness?
This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
Arkady B. Zaslavsky
LOCA
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Context Modelling and Management in Ambient-Aware Pervasive Environments
Services in pervasive computing systems must evolve so that they become minimally intrusive and exhibit inherent proactiveness and dynamic adaptability to the current conditions, u...
Maria Strimpakou, Ioanna Roussaki, Carsten Pils, M...
PDP
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Self-Aware Clock for Pervasive Computing Systems
The paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of instrumenting pervasive computing systems with a logical clock, aware of the quality of synchronization with respect to a t...
Andrea Bondavalli, Andrea Ceccarelli, Lorenzo Fala...
PERCOM
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
A Capacitive Sensing Toolkit for Pervasive Activity Detection and Recognition
In this paper we present a toolkit for realizing capacitive sensing applications for human-computer interaction in pervasive computing systems. We argue that capacitive sensors - ...
Raphael Wimmer, Matthias Kranz, Sebastian Boring, ...