Projects involving the investigation and construction of Intelligent Environments have had reasonable success in demonstrating their potential applicability in the real world. However, most of these efforts pay little or no attention to their security and privacy implications. These are key issues that need to be addressed in order for Intelligent Environments to be deployed broadly. In this pa...

The Web so far has been incredibly successful at delivering information to human users. So successful actually, that there is now an urgent need to go beyond a browsing human. Unfortunately, the Web is not yet a well organized repository of nicely structured documents but rather a conglomerate of volatile HTML pages. To address this problem, we present the World Wide Web Wrapper Factory (W4F), ...

This paper presents an intelligent system allowing handicapped aphasiacs to perform basic communication tasks. It has the following three key features: (1) A 6-sensor data glove measures the finger gestures of a patient in terms of the bending degrees of his fingers. (2) A finger language recognition subsystem recognizes language components from the finger gestures. It employs multiple regressi...