User queries are becoming increasingly local where people are interested in what their friends are up to or what is happening in their local area. Sensors can assist in localised information retrieval by giving the search engine direct access to events happening in the local world. In this paper, we describe an open source framework to search in realtime multimedia and social streams. The SMART...

Today, search engines on the Internet allow us to instantly find almost any kind of information or media. Unfortunately, the same capabilities are not available in the physical world, except for in industrial settings such as automated warehouses. Therefore, we implemented a stationary prototype that supports finding objects in everyday environments. The location is represented using a web-base...

We explore how computer games can be designed to maintain some of the social aspects of traditional game play, by moving computational game elements into the physical world. We have constructed a mobile multiplayer game, Pirates!, to illustrate how wireless and proximity-sensing technology can be integrated in the design of new game experiences. We describe Pirates! and its implementation, and ...

This paper introduces the BubbleFish project, in terms of the main idea, related work, and a set of possible prototypical implementations. The BubbleFish is a digital document manager that uses Augmented Reality to let its users maintain digital documents in the physical environment, as an alternative to the currently dominating file/folder approach in desktop based computer systems. The user m...

Wireless sensor network is used to sense the objective physical world, access to the information of the physical world. Fuzzy cluster analysis, it is involving the fuzzy boundaries between things of things according to certain requirements for the classification of mathematical methods. Wireless sensor network is used to sense the objective physical world, access to the information of the physi...

In this chapter we introduce a vision of agent-oriented AmI systems that is extended to integrate ideas inspired by Mirror Worlds as introduced by Gelernter at the beginning of the 80ies. In this view, AmI systems are actually a digital world mirroring but also augmenting the physical world with capabilities, services and functionalities. We then discuss the value of stigmergy as background ref...

A Cyber-Physical Systems (or CPS) is a system that combines and coordinates physical and computational elements. The CPS incorporates the ability to act in the physical world with the intelligence of cyber world to add new features to real-world physical systems [1]. Among the various fields of activity of the CPS, can cite security systems, robotics, education, among others. Educational enviro...

evidence has been accumulating for some time regarding the reduced life-expectancy experienced by people living with a mental illness. in developed world settings this can involve a two-decade reduction in life expectancy, whilst in the developing world the gap may be as high as thirty years. whilst genetic risk factors and suicide contribute to this ‘scandal of premature mortality’, modifiable...

Handheld Augmented Reality (AR) relies on a spatial coupling of the on-screen content with the physical surrounding. To help the design of such systems and to classify existing AR systems, we present a framework made of three categories and two spatial relationships. Our framework highlights spatial relationships between the physical world, the representation of the physical world on screen and...