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Context-aware fun and games with Bluetooth
Bluetooth-enabled devices are everywhere and in everyday use by a large number of mobile phone users. Harnessing this communication channel for a context-aware system has proved to be a useful step forward in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Digital Photo Sharing and Emotions In A Ubiquitous Smart Home
Ubiquitous computing has come a long way since Weiser introduced the concept in 1988 where he put forward some ideas as to how the future of computing would allow us to interact more freely. Today this paradig...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
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Chapter and Conference Paper
ETHICAL ASPECTS OF HOME INFORMATICS AND TELEMATICS
Home-oriented Informatics and Telematics (HOIT) research has a number of challenges in the future. These range from the technical challenge of providing useful solutions through the ubiquitous paradigm to the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Ethics of Entertainment Computing
This paper investigates a number of issues that relate to the development of entertainment computing (EC) and the home environment. The consumption of EC is closely related to the efforts of companies to marke...
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Chapter
The Home in the Information Society
This chapter looks at the position occupied by the home as the central focus of the information society. A working definition of the home is used and various interactions and activities that take place in the ...
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Chapter
Information and communication technology and the home environment
The home is the scene of the most intense use and production of information. Many of the modes that are used for living can now be enhanced by the use of information and communication technology (ICT). This in...
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Chapter
Infrastructure Issues for Internet Broadcasting to Home-Based Users
The use of computers in the home is continuing to grow and the integration of services between the television and the computer is blurring the definition of the two types of device and the services that they p...
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Book
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Chapter
Erratum to: Home Informatics and Telematics
Erratum to: A. Sloane and F. van Rijn (Eds.) Home Informatics and Telematics DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-35511-5
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Chapter
Web-Based Family Noticeboard
We outline how to implement a three-tier family notice board application over the Web using ready-made web browsers as the interactive medium. The application deploys the dynamic HTML layers to create an intui...
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Chapter
Home Information Systems
Most service providers concentrate on delivery and this involves communication and value-added services. These are increasingly being taken up by users and new digital services are set to become ubiquitous. Ho...
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Chapter
The Distributed Home Environment and the New Oikos
The communications and information technology advances of recent years have led to a number of new possibilities that were hardly plausible just a few years ago. Many of these relate to the flexibility of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Digital Library and the home-based user
The rapid digitisation of the information resource has led to a new set of possibilities for the digital storage and dissemination of information. The user of such information is no longer tied to the need to ...