Interaction patterns are often used to present existing knowledge about user-interfaces in a generalised, but well-defined manner. Such patterns provide insight into the practises and assumptions of the design community. This paper presents a small number of patterns based on the concept of physical ontology. That is, the paper puts forward patterns in which computing concepts in a program are ...

Limits on Efficient Computation in the Physical World

Nowadays, Internet (also World Wide Web, Web) is one of the most important tools for information sharing. Compared with any traditional information carriers such as newspapers and magazine, Internet not only contains more data volume, but also provides more convenient and efficient interface for data mining, transmission, and update [1]. Today’s Internet acts as a virtue world, all the informat...

Proliferation of mobile devices and sensors in common use is anticipated to have a key role in building a smarter planet. The future Internet will be dominated by vast amount of sensing data. This thesis attacks a grand challenge in this vision: how to extract human-consumable information from such data? The prime contribution of this work is a framework called FusionSuite that facilitates the ...

It is generally accepted that the most serious threat to the possibility of mental causation is posed by the causal self-sufficiency of physical causal processes. I argue, however, that this feature of the world, which I articulate in principle I call Completeness, in fact poses no genuine threat to mental causation. Some find Completeness threatening to mental causation because they confuse it...

Advances in wireless sensors, RFID technology, and mobile devices have enabled the development of information systems that monitor and react to events in the real world. When deployed on a large (e.g., national) scale, these systems assume a high fan-in architecture, in which vast numbers of events measured at the edges of the network are continually refined, summarized, augmented, and aggregat...

We focus on the selection of light sources in the physical world. Their selection is challenging for the user, since numerous LightEmitting Diodes (LEDs) can be embedded into various materials as well as environments, thus creating high densities of interactive objects. In this paper, we describe an innovative technique for light sources selection based on the pointing paradigm, that is, allowi...

In this paper, we overview a set of desiderata for building anti-counterfeiting technologies that rely upon the difficulty of manufacturing randomized complex 3D objects. Then, we observe how this set is addressed by RF-DNA, an anti-counterfeiting technology recently proposed by DeJean and Kirovski. RF-DNA constructs certificates of authenticity as random objects that exhibit substantial unique...

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Never before has a medium been as widely available and individually customizable as the World Wide Web. Customization can occur along several dimensions — content sources and arrangements, “push” and “pull” delivery mechanisms, delivery vehicles ranging from PC-based browsers to mobile phones and fax printers. Many systems have been developed to exploit this capability and thereby personalize t...