Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) are important tools to support personal processes. However, their contribution to co-operative processes, like meetings, is reduced. On the other hand, the link between meetings and other processes existent in organizations is also a problem. This paper discusses the integration of results produced during meeting sessions supported by Electronic Meeting Systems...

Current wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards provide no method for two previously unacquainted parties to authenticate to one another in a trusted manner upon first encounter. The paper details the research leading up to the development of Friendly Authentication and Communication Experience (FACE). The FACE methodology will be developed to be independent of wirelessly enabled mobile...

This is a science fiction story that describes a world in the not-too-distant future in which context aware technologies, ubiquitous computing, and persuasive technologies are virtually everywhere. This world is navigated by a character of the utmost average credentials who, because he has lived in this technology-saturated world his whole life, does not really notice how much he relies on it. ...

Often an information source on the Web would like to provide diierent classes of service to diierent clients. In the autonomous, highly distributed world of the Web, the traditional approach of using authentica-tion to diierentiate between classes of clients is no longer suucient, as knowledge of a client's identity will often not suuce to determine whether a client is authorized to use a servi...

he wide-spread and growing use of portable, battery-powered devices like cellular telephones, audio-capable personal digital assistants (PDAs), MP3 players and similar applications has resulted in an increasing demand for miniature, ultra low-power digital signal processing (DSP) technology. Many of these devices make heavy use of digital signal processing techniques like modulation, demodulati...

This paper describes the process by which a group of seven and eight year old children designed their own digital writing tools following their own study of digital pens, personal digital assistants and tablet PCs. Some of the children’s thoughts about the three technologies are presented and how these were carried through into their own designs is explored. It was found that although the child...

Flash memory is a non-volatile storage device that can retain its contents when the power is switched off. Generally, it is a form of an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) that offers several excellent features such as less noise, solid-state reliability, lower power consumption, smaller size, light weight, and higher shock resistant [1 – 5]. Flash memory acts as a sli...

BACKGROUND The commercial development and expansion of mobile phone networks has led to the creation of devices combining mobile phones and personal digital assistants, which could prove invaluable in a clinical setting. This pilot study aimed to look at how one such device compared with the current pager system in facilitating inter-professional communication in a hospital clinical team. MET...