With increasing proliferation of virtual environments for serious work as well as play, we are confronted by new challenges pertaining to how such environments can be leveraged to...
To accommodate frequent emergencies, interruptions, and delays, hospital staff continually make and coordinate changes to the surgery schedule. The technical and social aspects of...
Peter Scupelli, Yan Xiao, Susan R. Fussell, Sara B...
: Embedded Computer-based Systems are becoming highly complex and hard to implement because of the large number of concerns the designers have to address. These systems are tightly...
The cost of deploying a ubiquitous system to enhance a physical environment is likely to be considerable. The success of its deployment is highly dependent on its context: the phy...
Teams performing physical tasks must often be distributed in space, and are often organized hierarchically. This means that systems to support collaboration between members must ac...
Feature interaction detection in the context of systems that are highly integrated into their environment, such as embedded or software-intensive systems, is different from classi...
An approach to high-level interaction with autonomous robots by means of schematic maps is outlined. Schematic maps are knowledge representation structures to encode qualitative s...
Christian Freksa, Reinhard Moratz, Thomas Barkowsk...
Schematic maps are effective tools for representing information e physical environment; they depict specific information in an abstract way. This study concentrates on spatial aspe...
Hernan Casakin, Thomas Barkowsky, Alexander Klippe...
In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
Moving around our physical environment, we are surrounded and interact with information that exhorts and stimulates us to buy things. For most of us, not all of these impulses are...