We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart
space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart …

By riding the tide of sensor technologies, smart space services collects information about its
surroundings and internal objects. However, sensor readings are usually at primitive stage …

Many researchers introduced special rooms equipped with sensors, devices, networks, and
computers to demonstrate ubiquitous computing environment. However, the cost and time …

Typical product development in biotechnological laboratories is a distributed and versatile
process. Today's biotechnological laboratory devices are usually equipped with multiple …

Our group is exploring interactive multi-and hypermedia, especially applied to virtual and
mixed reality multimodal groupware systems. We are researching user interfaces to control …

The objective of the work describes the observation and construction of a low cost
temperature monitor with controller for laboratory uses. In a reaction monitoring lab, a …

A smart space, ie a physical environment such as a laboratory or a home that can offer
automatic services mainly relies on sensing devices to acquire contextual information, and …

The apparent paradoxes of multipresence, having avatars in multiple places simultaneously,
are resolvable by an'autofocus' feature, which uses reciprocity to project overlaid …

This paper proposes a pluggable service-to-service (S2S) communication mechanism in a
middleware for home networks, called Virtual Networked Appliance (VNA) architecture. In …

This paper presents basic idea including the background, the goal and issues, and research
organization of the Yaoyorozu Project that pursues the required institutional systems as well …