In this paper we describe a new curriculum for a CS1 course that uses personal robots as a context for learning introductory computer science. Students learn several computing and AI-related concepts in the process of exploring and designing robot behaviors. We believe that the use of personal robots and engaging examples can provide a good foundation for learning computing and hence serve to a...

Cloud computing is rapidly diffusing among individuals for personal use. By reviewing extant literature on individual adoption and use of information technology, this research develops a theoretical model to explicate the use of cloud computing for personal use. The proposed research model is empirically evaluated using a nationally drawn sample of 960 individuals. Partial Least Squares, a vari...

Pervasive computing environments will combine everyday physical spaces with network aware devices and services; hence providing computing behaviour that is much more entwined with the environments we inhabit. Within such environments, a nomadic user will own and make use of many services attached to, and organised around, physical space. This study introduces the concept of a personal operating...

Mobile applications frequently gather, use and share our personal information. To protect our privacy, any use of our personal information by these applications should ideally be controlled in a manner which is consistent with our specific privacy attitudes. This article takes the premise that such attitudes are determined by the social context in which the gathering, use and sharing of persona...

This paper describes the roles and functions of autonomic computing for personal computer. Based on the technology of autonomic computing, this paper defines an architectural model for personal computer autonomic computing to solve some problems , which lead to the crisis of software complexity. Based on this model, one test program with self-monitoring, self-analyzing, selfhealing characters i...

Scalable and secure sharing of personal health record in cloud computing is an emerging trend in Health field for exchange and the use of personal Health information. This sensitive data is shared and stored by the third party reference in cloud computing. Therefore the need of encrypting data stored at this sites is highly essential to reduce the storage space and for the cost reduction. Since...

We are investigating the integration of paper artifacts into personal and inter-personal computing environments. We will demonstrate portable paper interfaces to media collections and active photos that allow uses to access annotations in both web-based and printed representations.