Subhash Sathyakeerthy, M. D. Rocco, F. Pecora, A. Saffiotti
{"title":"Scaling up ubiquitous robotic systems from home to town (and beyond)","authors":"Subhash Sathyakeerthy, M. D. Rocco, F. Pecora, A. Saffiotti","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2494121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2494121","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous robotics is an emerging paradigm in which smart environments are augmented with robots to provide physical and information added-value services to the citizen. We discuss the challenges and opportunities in extending this paradigm from a single environment (home, factory floor) to the scale of a community of homes, a town, or even a network of towns. To this aim, we introduce the concept of multiple robotic ecologies. This poster is a first step in defining a scalable architecture for a hierarchy of robotic smart-home ecologies, and a framework to provide autonomous services in it.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115825974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The bumpy road of bringing wearable augmented reality systems to market","authors":"C. Bürgy, Joerg Seitz","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2499573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2499573","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable Augmented Reality systems are still expensive niche products and not yet widespread. Three main components need to be available for a successful market entry: affordable and user-friendly hardware; reliably and easy to use software and SDKs; and the necessary data structure for exact and informative augmentation. This paper lists some lessons-learned along the road to a wearable AR market.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125237873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Toshiki Takeuchi, Kyohei Suwa, Hiroto Tamura, Takuji Narumi, T. Tanikawa, M. Hirose
{"title":"A task-management system using future prediction based on personal lifelogs and plans","authors":"Toshiki Takeuchi, Kyohei Suwa, Hiroto Tamura, Takuji Narumi, T. Tanikawa, M. Hirose","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2494166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2494166","url":null,"abstract":"People who are busy generally have to manage a great variety of tasks. But sometimes, they fall behind in minor tasks and gradually, even without them noticing, a huge backlog piles up, far beyond the person's capacity to complete them well and on time. We proposed a task-management system that predicts a user's future state on the basis of the user's lifelog and plans, using a simple linear regression model. We implemented the system using a smartphone and estimated its usefulness with a user test. As a result, the users of our system saw their future diaries and tried to alter their current daily activities.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117048671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Fukui, Keisuke Maeda, Masahiko Watanabe, M. Shimosaka, Tomomasa Sato
{"title":"Numerical modeling of image discriminability for home storage and organization system on a smart device","authors":"R. Fukui, Keisuke Maeda, Masahiko Watanabe, M. Shimosaka, Tomomasa Sato","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2494153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2494153","url":null,"abstract":"In Home storage and organization system on a smart device, thumbnail pictures (Tag Image) of daily-use objects are often used. Discriminability of Tag Image is important to realize superior usability. In this paper, we have tried to construct a numerical model of Tag Image's discriminabillity. The proposed model is based on simple linear regression from popular image features and their statistics. In addition, web-based data input system has also been developed to collect training data efficiently. Consequently, the input system has acquired a substantial number of data and a numerical model has been constructed. The constructed model has substantially good but not perfect performance.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121120483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jorge Alvarez-Lozano, J. A. García-Macías, Edgar Chávez
{"title":"Learning and user adaptation in location forecasting","authors":"Jorge Alvarez-Lozano, J. A. García-Macías, Edgar Chávez","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2495978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2495978","url":null,"abstract":"User location forecasting is central to establish context in proactive mobile applications. Knowing where the user will be at a given time enables standby action triggers ahead of time. User location exhibits periodic patterns grouped by time of day, day of the week, month of the year, etc. This characteristic has been exploited to model user location as a Markov process with great accuracy. Using yearly data from public sources it was possible to predict user location in a time frame of 8 hours with accuracy of up to 69%. One assumption of the above modeling is that user location is stationary in time. However, it is more natural to assume user location patterns may vary over time. For example one user may change job, or the relationship status, and avoid certain places frecuented in the past. In this paper we propose a learning mechanism adapting user location forecasting to behavior changes over time. Our model is able to predict for up to 94 weeks with 43% of accuracy.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127473710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using technology to reveal the politics of the built environment","authors":"Rosemarie Johnson","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2499225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2499225","url":null,"abstract":"In the UK the majority of people do not vote in local elections. However electoral participation is vital to a democratic society. This paper suggests that technology could be used to embed political information into the built environment so that people can easily see how resources are being used in their area and bring political discussion into cities, towns and villages.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125848116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wordpress of objects: addressing layman participation in a post-industrial society","authors":"G. Hermans","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2499206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2499206","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a perspective on layman participation in the design of everyday products is presented. The development of digital fabrication technologies such as 3D printing enables an increasing involvement of the layman in appropriating the performance of objects to their own needs and desires. The question is how professional designers as well as laymen deal with openness in product design. An analogy is made with the content management system Wordpress to discuss how could be dealt with openness in a toolkit that addresses multiple skill levels of its users.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122789907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study of a monopulse system with RFID antennas for applications oriented to retail industry","authors":"Raúl Parada, A. Carreras, J. Melià-Seguí, R. Pous","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2494233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2494233","url":null,"abstract":"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) allows the identification and location of items using passive electronic labels. However, current RFID techniques do not locate objects precisely. The monopulse system allows to locate objects with higher accuracy using a combination of Radio Frequency (RF) beams. In this work, we present a two-antenna monopulse system implementation using RFID technologies. By combining RF beams we obtained a focused beam. We also investigated the multipath effect in this work. Our results show a monopulse system using RFID technologies with an accuracy of 84%. It can be applied in the retail industry for applications such as fitting rooms, inventory, customers' location and others.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122176409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Reuben Kirkham, Aftab Khan, S. Bhattacharya, Nils Y. Hammerla, Sebastian Mellor, D. Roggen, T. Plötz
{"title":"Automatic correction of annotation boundaries in activity datasets by class separation maximization","authors":"Reuben Kirkham, Aftab Khan, S. Bhattacharya, Nils Y. Hammerla, Sebastian Mellor, D. Roggen, T. Plötz","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2495988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2495988","url":null,"abstract":"t is challenging to precisely identify the boundary of activities in order to annotate the activity datasets required to train activity recognition systems. This is the case for experts, as well as non-experts who may be recruited for crowd-sourcing paradigms to reduce the annotation effort or speed up the process by distributing the task over multiple annotators. We present a method to automatically adjust annotation boundaries, presuming a correct annotation label, but imprecise boundaries, otherwise known as \"label jitter\". The approach maximizes the Fukunaga Class-Separability, applied to time series. Evaluations on a standard benchmark dataset showed statistically significant improvements from the initial jittery annotations.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124621555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EatChaFood: challenging technology design to slice food waste production","authors":"Geremy Farr-Wharton, M. Foth, J. Choi","doi":"10.1145/2494091.2497311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2494091.2497311","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents work in progress of EatChaFood -- a prototype app designed to increase user knowledge of the currently available domestic supply and location of food, with a view to reducing expired household food waste. In order to reap the benefits that EatChaFood can provide we explore ways to overcome manual data entry as a barrier to use. Our user study has to recognise the limitations of the prototype app, and conduct an evaluation of the interaction design built into the app to promote behaviour change. Innovations in the near future such as the automatic scanning of barcodes on food items or photo-recognition will close the gap between perceived prototype usability and usefulness.","PeriodicalId":220524,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130411874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}