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MOBIWAC
2006
ACM
16 years 23 hour ago
Calibration-free WLAN location system based on dynamic mapping of signal strength
In this work we present a calibration-free system for locating wireless local area network devices, based on the radio frequency characteristics of such networks. Calibration proc...
Luís Felipe M. de Moraes, Bruno Astuto A. N...
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 28 days ago
OneBusAway: results from providing real-time arrival information for public transit
Public transit systems play an important role in combating traffic congestion, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting compact, sustainable urban communities. The usability of p...
Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, Alan Borning
SEMCO
2007
IEEE
16 years 10 days ago
Challenges and Directions for Semantic Communication
— This paper aims to present ideas to bridge the gap between two conflicting views of information: Shannon information, which is used to model physical layer information, and se...
Volkan Rodoplu, Snehal S. Vadvalkar
JASIS
2006
99views more  JASIS 2006»
15 years 6 months ago
Changing the pace of search: Supporting background information seeking
Almost all Web searches are carried out while the user is sitting at a conventional desktop computer, connected to the Internet. Although online, handheld, mobile search offers ne...
Matt Jones, George Buchanan, Tzu-Chiang Cheng, Pre...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
SmokeScreen: flexible privacy controls for presence-sharing
Presence-sharing is an emerging platform for mobile applications, but presence-privacy remains a challenge. Privacy controls must be flexible enough to allow sharing between both ...
Landon P. Cox, Angela Dalton, Varun Marupadi