Smart artifacts promise to enhance the relationships among participants in distributed
working groups, maintaining personal mobility while offering opportunities for the …

In this paper, we introduce our approach as well as examples of realizations for situated
interaction in the context of future work environments. These environments will be populated …

The manifolds of spaces and places we are entering, populating, transiently crossing and
eventually leaving (only to immerse in another subsequent context) as part of our daily …

People wish to maintain a level of awareness of timely information, including presence of
others in the workplace and other social settings. We believe this provides better exchange …

Smart spaces research focuses on technology for multiple displays and devices for
collocated participants. In most approaches, however, users have to cope with …

Mark Weiser originated the term ubiquitous computing (ubicomp), creating a vision of people
and smart environments augmented with computational resources that provide information …

The idea of weaving technology into the backdrop of natural human interactions is a long-
standing vision [1]. To realize that dream, a number of technologies need to be developed …

The challenge presented by ambient intelligence and pervasive computing is an
environment within which computing artifacts become seamlessly merged into our …

While tangible interfaces open up new possibilities for input and interaction, they are also
interesting because of the ways in which they occupy the physical world just as we do. We …

Context: From personal mobile and wearable devices to public ambient displays, our digital
ecosystem has been growing with a large variety of smart sensors and devices that can …