Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

This Theme issue focuses on the emerging research of ubiquitous technologies to support mental health. So far, the majority of work presented in the field of ubiquitous healthcare has focused on supporting people affected by somatic diseases. However, ...

This study explores the feasibility of objective and ubiquitous stress assessment. 25 post-traumatic stress disorder patients participated in a controlled storytelling (ST) study and an ecologically valid reliving (RL) study. The two studies were meant ...

Personal and ubiquitous healthcare applications offer new opportunities to prevent long-term health damage due to increased mental workload by continuously monitoring physiological signs related to prolonged high workload and providing just-in-time ...

Ubiquitous computing technologies offer exciting new possibilities for monitoring and analyzing user's experience in real time. In this paper, we describe the design and development of Psychlog, a mobile phone platform designed to collect users' ...

Several studies have demonstrated that exposure therapy--in which the patient is exposed to specific feared situations or objects that trigger anxiety--is an effective way to treat anxiety disorders. However, to overcome a number of limitations inherent ...

Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a common and severe form of mental disorder. The European research project MONARCA aims at developing and validating mobile technologies for multi-parametric, long term monitoring of physiological and ...

Because most teenagers strive for freedom and try to live autonomously, communication with their parents could be improved. It appeared from a literature review and a diary study that parent-teenager communication primarily addresses teenager-oriented ...

The technical enablers for mobile augmented reality (MAR) are becoming robust enough to allow the development of MAR services that are truly valuable for consumers. Such services would provide a novel interface to the ubiquitous digital information in ...

Mobile context-aware applications execute in the background of hosts mobile devices. The applications source process and aggregate hosts' contextual and personal information. This information is disclosed to ubiquitously pervasive services that adapt ...

The interdisciplinary Tales of Things and electronic Memory (TOTeM) project investigates new contexts for augmenting things with stories in the emerging culture of the Internet of Things (IoT). Tales of Things is a tagging system which, based on two-...

Location-based games seek to move computer gaming out from behind the PC and into the "real world" of cities, streets, parks, and other locations. This real-world physicality makes the experience fun for game players, yet it brings the unique challenge ...

Difficulties in executing daily living tasks hamper the quality of life of many individuals with cognitive impairments who are otherwise physically mobile. With sufficient and appropriate support on the job, many people with developmental disabilities ...

As the use of smartphones spreads rapidly, user localization becomes an important issue for providing diverse location-based services (LBS). While tracking users in outdoor environments is easily done with GPS, the solution for indoor tracking is not ...

Overview+Detail visualization is one of the major approaches to the display of large information spaces on a computer screen. Widely used in desktop applications, its feasibility on mobile devices has been scarcely investigated. This paper first ...

The Infopoint Explorer is an outdoor personal area network for location-based services that allows users to access locality information interactively using mobile computing devices such as PDAs and smartphones. The Infopoint explorer was used to study ...

With the advent of the portable projector (also embeddable in a smart phone), projection-based augmented reality (AR) will be an attractive form of AR as the augmentation is made directly in the real space (instead of on the video screen). Several ...