This interest is visible among global technology companies such as Samsung, Sony, Apple,
and Motorola, as well as small start-ups such as Hyetis, Pebble, and Martian. On a general …

An unexplored gap in IT adoption research concerns the positive role of shared benefits
even when personal information is exposed. To explore the evaluation paradigm of shared …

The Sharing Economy has brought new attention to the everyday practice of sharing. Digital
tools are changing both what we can do together across neighbourhoods and how we think …

In the next few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) will become a reality, merging the social,
physical, and cyber worlds to enable new applications and forms of interaction between …

Mobile devices have begun to raise questions around the potential for overuse when in the
presence of family or friends. As such, we conducted a diary and interview study to …

Wearable computers are expected to become the next big thing but popular press is divided
on whether they will be successful. In this paper we review the existing literature on one type …

Get smart Page 1 january 2009 | vol. 52 | no. 1 | communications of the acm 15 news The
problem with today’s smart- phones is that there’s nothing terribly smart about them. Even the …

Techniques for multi-device interactions are finding their way into commercial products. This
means that people are now exposed to possibilities of interacting with and across their …

It is becoming increasingly more common for people to own botha smartphone and a tablet,
providing a design opportunity to leverage the combination of these two formfactors. Our …

Introduction Human innovation, in combination with the internet, networking, and
communications technologies have produced a new platform for social and business …