Beyond the cheesesteak: Dining in Philadelphia

The faculty dining room.

The Dining Freemasons

We continue the popular theme of offline security by considering how computer security might be applied to the challenges presented in running a secret society. We discuss membership testing problems and solutions, set in the context of security authentication protocols, and present new building blocks which could be used to generate secret society protocols more robustly and generically, inclu...

The Interactive Dining Table

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Abstract Large-scale interactive surfaces are nearly ubiquitous in research labs and showrooms around the world today. However, unlike other recent interaction technologies such as smartphones, they have not yet found their way into people’s everyday lives. Possible reasons incl...

COMPASS2008: The Smart Dining Service

The Compass2008 project is a sino-german cooperation, aiming at integrating advanced information technologies to create a hightech information system that helps visitors to access location-sensitive information services during the 2008 Olympic Games in their preferred language, offering a variety of service-adaptive modalities available on the mobile devices. In this paper, we demonstrate one o...

Future Dining Table: Dish Recommendation Based on Dining Activity Recognition

Dining table is one of the environments that remain to be explored by information technology and that could be important for happy and healthy life of everybody. We have been studying the Future Dining Table system, dining environment of the future. The system features the real time recognition of dining activity, which is represented by the history of the hand movement to the dishes on the tab...