A User-Centric View of Intelligent Environments: User Expectations, User Experience and User Role inBuilding Intelligent Environments

E Kaasinen, T Kymäläinen, M Niemelä, T Olsson… - Computers, 2012 - mdpi.com
Our everyday environments are gradually becoming intelligent, facilitated both by
technological development and user activities. Although large-scale intelligent environments …

Perci: Pervasive service interaction with the internet of things

G Broll, E Rukzio, M Paolucci, M Wagner… - IEEE Internet …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advancement of ubiquitous computing technologies has greatly improved the
availability of digital resources in the real world. Here, the authors investigate mobile …

[PDF][PDF] This might be a game: ubiquitous play and performance at the turn of the twenty-first century

JE McGonigal - 2006 - janemcgonigal.com
This Might Be a Game examines the historical intersection of ubiquitous computing and
experimental game design, circa 2001 AD. Ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, is the …

Improved algorithms for hypergraph bipartitioning

AE Caldwell, AB Kahng, IL Markov - Proceedings of the 2000 Asia and …, 2000 - dl.acm.org
Abstract Multilevel Fiduccia-Mattheyses (MLFM) hypergraph partitioning [3, 22, 24] is a
fundamental optimization in VLSI CAD physical design. The leading implementation, hMetis …

RFID in pervasive computing: State-of-the-art and outlook

G Roussos, V Kostakos - Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2009 - Elsevier
rfid has already found its way into a variety of large scale applications and arguably it is
already one of the most successful technologies in the history of computing. Beyond doubt …

Touch-based user interface for elderly users

J Häikiö, A Wallin, M Isomursu, H Ailisto… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
This paper reports the results of a field experiment where a Near Field Communication
(NFC) enabled mobile phone was used as a user interface element so as to enable home …

UBI-hotspot 1.0: Large-scale long-term deployment of interactive public displays in a city center

T Ojala, H Kukka, T Lindén, T Heikkinen… - … on Internet and Web …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of novel urban
computing infrastructure called 'UBI-hotspot'. It is effectively a large interactive public display …

An empirical investigation of factors affecting ubiquitous computing use and U-business value

C Kim, E Oh, N Shin, M Chae - International Journal of Information …, 2009 - Elsevier
This research investigates the factors that influence the use of ubiquitous computing and U-
business value. It considers system, information and service qualities as the major factors …

A NFC-based pervasive solution for city touristic surfing

F Borrego-Jaraba, I Luque Ruiz… - Personal and ubiquitous …, 2011 - Springer
Context-aware and pervasive computing applications have increased their number during
the last decade, thanks to the development of new communication and mobile technologies …

[LIVRE][B] Networked RFID: systems, software and services

G Roussos - 2008 - books.google.com
The birth of RFID technology is credited to the 1948 research paper by H. Stockman on
“Communication by Means of Re? ected Power”[109]. After describing the main principle of …