Wearable computing along with advanced mobile communication has the potential to revolutionise the working environment and working processes of the mobile worker of the AEC industry. While wearable computing allows the mobile worker to execute his/her work and tasks more efficiently and safer with the support of information provided by novel user interfaces, like augmented reality glasses and v...

A typical cloud-computing environment is characterised by the networking of tens of thousands of servers. Once deployed, such datacenters experience a relatively stable hardware and networking environment. Smartphones offer considerable processing, memory, storage and sensing resources, and are handheld, pocket-sized devices that users generally carry with them at all times. The vision for clou...

Online Social Networks (OSNs) provide the easiest way to stay connected to the people dear and important to us. People are using social networking sites for sending messages, sharing files and expressing their thoughts to others. Popular social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace are web based. Users register with their services and agree to provide their private data to the OSN providers. ...

Social networks (P2P network, online communications, and mobile computing) have become the global consumer phenomena in recent years. It its early days, few people foresaw that publishing the consumers’ data for merely research purpose will plague users today. The widespread deployment of wireless networking, mobile and embedded devices, sensor networks poses even greater risks to consumers’ pr...

In this study, we attempt to understand one frequently observed paradox in user social networking behavior – highly concerned about privacy issues on social networking sites, yet actively participating in social networking activities. Based on qualitative analysis of student essays on their social networking activities and perceptions, we propose a theory for user online social networking behav...

RFID represents a significant improvement over other automated identification technologies (such as bar coding) in that RFID readers do not require line of sight to tags nor do RFID systems require human assistance when functioning properly. These and other attributes make RFID an excellent candidate for convergence with a variety of networking technologies, and recent research has paired RFID ...