This paper presents two case studies of informal group communication using multimedia conferencing that supports various media including video, audio and chat. The studies provide...
Family and friends naturally maintain an awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one’s schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplat...
We consider pervasive computing applications that process and aggregate data-streams emanating from highly distributed data sources to produce a stream of updates that have an imp...
In distributed P2P environments, peers (i.e., users) often have to request the services from some unfamiliar peers (i.e., resources) that could be altruistic, selfish, or even ma...
In this paper FrameDrops is presented. FrameDrops is a mobile VideoBlog—it allows users to capture videos and pictures on the move with modern mobile phones, and to send these d...