Sensors experiencing environments, environments becoming computational

Ambient Computational Environments

Integrated Sensors in Biological Environments*

This paper reviews the application and operation of integrated sensors and actuators in biological and physiological environments. Integrated transducers are widely employed for invasive and non-invasive patient monitoring, for recording and understanding biological events and systems, for delivery of chemicals and electrical stimuli into the body, and as a means for eventual realization of clo...

Locating Sensors in Obstructed Environments

Accurately determining physical positions of sensors is an important problem and is essential to many location-aware applications and protocols. Previous approaches for sensor localization can be divided into two categories: range-based approaches and rang-free approaches. Although range-based approaches tend to be more accurate than range-free approaches, they are more sensitive to errors in d...

A theoretical model for analysis of ionic polymer metal composite sensors in fluid environments

By the past two decades IPMCs have been intensively studied because of their special capabilities for actuation and sensing.This paper presents a theoretical physics based model for analyzing the behavior of IPMC sensors in fluid environments. The mechanical vibration of the IPMC strip is described by the classical Euler–Bernoulli beam theory. The model also takes in to account the physical pro...

Computational Designing of Auditory Environments

This paper is a call for sonification designers to adapt their representational practices from that of designing objects for auditory engagement to the construction of systems of formally described relationships that define the ‘state space’ from which streams of such objects can be drawn. This shift from the crafting individual sonic objects and streams to defining dynamical space of design po...