In an ideal pervasive computing environment, a large number of connected smart devices are deployed to collaboratively provision seamless services to users. Pervasive computing is enabled by various advanced technologies, particularly wireless technologies and the Internet. It has become a trend for our future lives. A pervasive computing environment can be extremely heterogeneous. We can imagi...

Imagine “astronauts working in a lunar habitat with Internet of Things devices.” In response to such simple prompt, within seconds generative AI rendered the image above, which enamored this issue's guest editors its fanciful, seemingly humorous depiction what appears be pair space-suited engineers engaged something like hackathon while sitting dust coffee cups nearby. Beyond being fun way kick...

Human interaction occurs always in a specific context and in a particular environment, and a common knowledge base about them is essential for understanding each other. By immersing computational system into physical world, pervasive computing bring us from traditional desktop computing interaction, to a new paradigm of interaction closer to Humans one’s in term of context and environment depen...

The rapid increase of sensor networks has brought a revolution in pervasive computing. However, data from these fragmented and heterogeneous sensor networks are easily shared. Existing sensor computing environments are based on the traditional database approach, in which sensors are tightly coupled with specific applications. Such static configurations are effective only in situations where all...

A pervasive computing environment consists typically of a large heterogeneous collection of networked devices. This paper describes the use of lexical knowledge to improve a pervasive computing environment. In an ongoing research project, we are exploring ways to enable non-technical users to manage and control their home environment that is particularly hostile. We assume that each device belo...

The confluence of pervasive computing, anywhere/anytime access to information resources and scalable computing enables the construction of smart environments or Active Spaces. In such a Space, a spectrum of computation and communication devices seamlessly augment human thought and activity with digital information, processing, and analysis to provide an observed or imagined world that is automa...

Pervasive Social Computing (PSC) is an ongoing research trend of merging the two worlds of pervasive computing and social computing. While there are already lots of promising PSC applications, building such systems is still very sophisticated and error-prone. The Mobilis framework provides developer support for mobile social apps (native Android and HTML5), a service environment for dynamic dep...

Pervasive Computing Debugger (PCD) is a user level debugging tool for pervasive environments, which is important as it provides the ability to monitor changes that occur in a pervasive environment and identify problems that result from these changes, especially since a typical pervasive environment may consist of a large collection of systems, devices, and applications which make a user lost in...

P ERVASIVE healthcare may be defined from two perspectives: first, as the application of pervasive computing—or ubiquitous computing, proactive computing, ambient intel-ligence—technologies for healthcare, health, and wellness management; second, as making healthcare available everywhere , anytime—pervasively. Essentially, pervasive healthcare addresses those technologies and concepts that inte...