Computers--The software situation

Situation Aware Computing with Wearable Computers

For most computer systems even virtual reality systems sensing techniques are a means of getting input directly from the user However wearable sensors and computers o er a unique opportunity to re direct sensing technology towards recovering more general user context Wearable computers have the potential to see as the user sees hear as the user hears and experience the life of the user in a rst...

Software Development for Mobile Computers

Protecting Unattended Computers Without Software

In many environments, users login to workstations and then leave them unattended. Rather than trying to stop users from doing what comes naturally, this paper suggests a simple, hardware-based system that can protect computers in such an environment from unauthorized use by those with physical access to the monitor and keyboard. Requirements for the system are described, some design issues are ...

Software for Small, Communicating Computers University of Colorado at Boulder Software for Small, Communicating Computers

Computers have become an important part of today's everyday life, from their high proole use to manage corporate information, to personal information retrieval (web browsing), to information kiosks, to consumer electronics, and to managing our microwave oven. The spectrum of computers runs from the very large supercomputers for intensive computation to the very small to replace traditional elec...

Software reliability analysis of laptop computers

Computers freezing to work is a common problem and can cause unexpected damages if the work is important but not saved yet. This kind of problems is often caused by software failures which are hard to predict. This paper focuses on the reliability analysis of laptop computers experiencing multiple occurrences of failures in operation. The failure has been defined as the event that the computer ...