The ability of an intelligent environment to connect and adapt to real internal sates, needs and behaviors’ meaning of humans can be made possible by considering users’ emotional states as contextual parameters. In this paper, we build on enactive psychology and investigate the incorporation of emotions in pervasive systems. We define emotions, and discuss the coding of emotional human markers ...

The popularity of personal computing devices (e.g. smart cards) exposes users to risks, notably identity theft, and creates new requirements for secure communication. A recently proposed approach to creating secure communication is to use human trust and human interactions. These approaches potentially eliminate the need for passwords as in Bluetooth, shared secrets or trusted parties, which ar...

Pervasive computing, with its focus on users and their tasks rather than on computing devices and technology, provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. But, while hardware and networking infrastructure to realize this vision are becoming a reality, precious few applications run in this infrastructure. We believe that this lack of applications stems largely from the fact that it...

A key limiting factor for the pervasive community has been the difficulty developing and deploying general purpose systems. Such systems should make application development easy, support a wide range of devices and sensors, and allow users to share these resources. Designing a multi-user middleware system that allows novice users to add arbitrary hardware and software raises several challenges,...

1 The work reported in this paper has been funded in part by the Co-operative Research Centre Program through the Department of Industry, Science & Tourism of the Commonwealth Government of Australia. Abstract: As mobile and embedded computing devices become more pervasive, it is becoming obvious that the nature of interactions between users and computers must evolve. Applications need to becom...

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• " … make a computer so imbedded, so fitting, so natural, that we use it without even thinking about it. " • " Ubiquitous (pervasive) computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world with people. " – Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC

L ike many people in the US, I have become much more active politically in recent months. At the same time, I have observed many people across the political spectrum who feel like their voices are not being heard, which seems to be a concern shared beyond the US borders, in Europe and perhaps other countries as well. Given this backdrop, I have found myself wondering how pervasive computing cou...