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Real time adaptivity from Cybernetics to Intelligent Environments: rewriting the history of Ubiquitous Computing Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The historical framework in which a technology is placed can affect the direction of legal, societal and philosophical thought about it. It is explored in which way "Ambient Intelligent" or "Intelligent Environments"-technologies are similar or different from the technologies which arose during the mechanical and the cybernetic revolution. The findings are applied to a possible new understanding of privacy: the protection of a "time of one's ...
Towards Halos Networks ubiquitous networking and computing at the edge Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper presents Halos Networks as an architectural paradigm for developing ubiquitous networking and computing services at the edge of the networks A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices, machines and objects interconnected with ...
UbiMount - Ubiquitous Computing in the Mountains Hasselt University
Mobile and wearable computing has great potential to support alpine outdoor sport activities. This includes, but is not limited to, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, paragliding, and skiing. Interestingly, technology for tracking, monitoring and supporting sport activities is broadly used in sports like running or cycling, but has not reached the top of the mountains yet. Nevertheless, such technologies could support people in many ...
Designing for intelligibility and control in ubiquitous computing environments Hasselt University
In this dissertation, I explore designing for intelligibility and control in ubiquitous computing applications, in particular, in context-aware systems. Earlier work has identified a number of interaction challenges that users face when dealing with context-aware systems, such as being unable to understand why the system is responding in a certain way, or being unable to intervene when the system makes a mistake. These challenges impact users’ ...
Informing Intelligent User Interfaces by Inferring Affective States from Body Postures in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Hasselt University
Intelligent User Interfaces can benefit from having knowledge on the user’s emotion. However, current implementations to detect affective states, are often constraining the user’s freedom of movement by instrumenting her with sensors. This prevents affective computing from being deployed in naturalistic and ubiquitous computing contexts. In this paper, we present a novel system called mASqUE, which uses a set of association rules to infer ...
Answering Why and Why Not Questions in Ubiquitous Computing Hasselt University
Users often find it hard to understand and control the behavior of a Ubicomp system. This gives rise to usability problems and can lead to loss of user trust, which may hamper the acceptance of these systems. We are extending an existing Ubicomp framework to allow users to pose why and why not questions about its behavior. Initial experiments suggest that these questions are easy to use and could help users in understanding how Ubicomp systems ...
Enabling Empathic Communication in Ubiquitous Computing Environments to Improve Interaction between People Hasselt University
Empathy is crucial for the establishment of building consensus and seeing a situation from the other person’s emotional point of view. Being able to empathize with our conversational partners can lead to better interpretation of the intended messages as well as improve social and working relationships. We envision that enabling empathic communication through the use of computers is possible with recent advances in Ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) ...
The Five Commandments of Activity-Aware Ubiquitous Computing Applications Hasselt University
Recent work demonstrates the potential for extracting patterns from users' behavior as detected by sensors. Since there is Currently no generalized framework for reasoning about activity-aware applications, designers can only rely on the existing systems for guidance. However, these systems often use a custom, domain-specific definition of activity pattern. Consequently the guidelines designers can extract from individual systems are limited to ...