Until recently, all the security measures have addressed servers or networks while clients or network endpoints have missed the required security concerns relatively. Most of the mechanisms safeguarding endpoints (clients) are software based. Making endpoints survive in open and reasonably exposed environments-like internet-demand that client security should stand by a tried and true dependence...

BACKGROUND Although perceptual and representational neglect are frequently associated, the demonstration of a double dissociation between both neglect forms suggests that both rely on different central mechanisms. In addition, perceptual neglect can be selectively observed within personal space or extrapersonal space. However, it is not known whether the latter dissociation also exists in repre...

Using the technique of the critical incidents, situations and behaviors mentioned by hospitalized patients were identified as far as the invasion of their personal and territorial space was concerned. The analysis of 80 reports of critical incidents revealed: a) 80 situations which were grouped in 11 categories; b) 95 health personnel behaviors related to personal and territorial invasion. Thes...

People appropriately adjust the distance between themselves and others during social interaction, and they may feel discomfort and move away when another person intrudes on their personal space. In the present study, we investigated personal space in children with persistent difficulties in the domain of social behavior, such as children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and in children wit...

The amygdala and the parietal cortex play a key role in the neural representation of personal space. Although the concept of personal space is clinically very relevant for borderline personality disorder (BPD), especially in affective contexts, it has not been investigated thus far with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In this fMRI study, 25 female BPD patients and 25 healthy women...

Companies whose missions are to empower individuals to take control of some aspect of their lives will face technological challenges to provide Secure, Privacy-aware, and ContExtual (SPACEd) solutions which scale to tens of millions of potential mobile customers in emerging markets. The authors present some promising human-centered solutions to these future technological challenges for online f...

The research work presented in this paper tackles the personal information overload phenomenon. Our purpose is to offer a set of interactive visualization techniques allowing one’s personal digital memory to be organized and overviewed. This system will provide easy browsing, guiding towards the wanted piece of information and allow a free exploration of the personal information space. Three ma...

In this paper we argue that the space of personal data is a dataspace as defined by Franklin et al. We define a personal dataspace, as the space of all personal data belonging to a user, and we describe the logical components of the dataspace. We describe a Personal Dataspace Support Platform (PDSP) as a set of services to provide a unified view over the user’s data, and to enable new and more ...

As Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) usage increases, so does the demand for better performance while adhering to strict power consumption limitations. As of the time of this study, the majority of PDA usage involves user-level applications which are not yet as computationally intensive as their desktop PC workstation counterparts. Because of that, it seems inappropriate to apply common benchmar...