Dining with the Police

The faculty dining room.

The Dining Freemasons

We continue the popular theme of offline security by considering how computer security might be applied to the challenges presented in running a secret society. We discuss membership testing problems and solutions, set in the context of security authentication protocols, and present new building blocks which could be used to generate secret society protocols more robustly and generically, inclu...

The Interactive Dining Table

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Abstract Large-scale interactive surfaces are nearly ubiquitous in research labs and showrooms around the world today. However, unlike other recent interaction technologies such as smartphones, they have not yet found their way into people’s everyday lives. Possible reasons incl...

Dealing with the police.

The majority of accident and emergency (A&E) departments have a good working relationship with the police, based on a mutual understanding of the conflicts which arise from the need, on one hand, to treat patients with confidentiality and on the other hand, the role of the police in maintaining law and order. In A&E work we need police help for many reasons, not least of which is staff and pati...

COMPASS2008: The Smart Dining Service

The Compass2008 project is a sino-german cooperation, aiming at integrating advanced information technologies to create a hightech information system that helps visitors to access location-sensitive information services during the 2008 Olympic Games in their preferred language, offering a variety of service-adaptive modalities available on the mobile devices. In this paper, we demonstrate one o...