WantEat is about interacting with everyday objects that become intelligent hubs for accessing and sharing the cultural heritage of a territory. Objects are smart in the sense that they share knowledge with users, interact with them in a personalized way and maintain social relationships with users and other objects. When interacting with an object, a user can share information with it and is al...

Topic of this paper is an interactive sound reproduction system to create virtual sonic environments and visual spaces, called Virtual Audio Reproduction Engine for Spatial Environments (VARESE). Using VARESE, Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique was recreated within a virtual Philips Pavilion. The system draws on binaural sound reproduction principles including spatialization techniques based on...

The classification of the various image features or visual objects can be done by the consistency-driven pairwise comparisons method based on their relative importance. A key issue in the proposed approach is a weight based synthesis for combining various image features. When compared with the traditional experience-based linear assignment method, the proposed approach is more effective and eas...

Microsoft has prosecuted a vigorous civil enforcement campaign against spammers and phishers. When initial investigation into a spam or phishing case fails to reveal the identity of the person(s) responsible, filing a “John Doe” lawsuit and following up with thorough third-party discovery has been an effective strategy to unmask the perpetrator.

Gravitational collapse is one of the most striking phenomena in gravitational physics. The cosmic censorship conjecture has provided strong motivation for researches in this field. In the absence of general proof for the censorship, many examples have been proposed, in which naked singularity is the outcome of gravitational collapse. Recent development has revealed that there are examples of na...

Today the world is overwhelmed by a load of different wireless communication technologies. The concept of interconnecting the things around us into a network raises the question about which communication technologies to use for a specific domain. This paper gives an overview over common wireless communication technologies and how to use them to connect smart objects in different application dom...

We present Tiles Cards, a tool to foster end-user design thinking of smart object applications. Tiles Cards facilitate participatory design by abstracting the complexity of IoT technology into a set of interaction primitives and composition rules accessible to nonexperts. Further, it promotes creative thinking by means of a mission-based game in which teams have to fulfill design tasks under co...