Why are people more irritated by nearby cell-phone conversations than by conversations between two people who are physically present? Overhearing someone on a cell phone means hearing only half of a conversation--a "halfalogue." We show that merely overhearing a halfalogue results in decreased performance on cognitive tasks designed to reflect the attentional demands of daily activities. By con...

Overhearing is of great importance to wireless network coding in that it can be exploited to obtain the side information needed for packet decoding. Recently, a new technique called virtual overhearing (VOH) was proposed to allow a node to obtain the packet sent by another node that is multiple hops away for free. This can overcome the limitation of overhearing and be used to discover more codi...

For urban digital twin, this paper comes up with a novel data acquisition scheme, denoted by collaborative reliable event transport (cRET), that conducts micro-scale sensing resolution in environments. cRET relies on battery-powered sensors Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) modules and the smart mobile devices people carry around places. However, traditional schemes assistance suffer from poor communi...

Overhearing has been observed to be an important conversational resource in a number of cooperative work contexts. Participatory status describes a particular kind of overhearing where two or more primary participants are actively involved in some cooperative task with one or more peripheral participants who are not actively involved, but nevertheless have a legitimate reason for listening in. ...

We propose an architecture for large scale, multi-user, distributed multimedia based on cooperating agents communicating by means of an observable communication channel. In addition to the traditional protocols based on point-to-point communication, coordination and cooperation should be supported via social awareness and overhearing. Overhearing also allows the collection of contextual informa...

Recent research indicates that toddlers can monitor others' conversations, raising the possibility that they can acquire vocabulary in this way. Three studies examined 2-year-olds' (N = 88) ability to learn novel words when overhearing these words used by others. Children aged 2,6 were equally good at learning novel words-both object labels and action verbs-when they were overhearers as when th...

Open distributed multi-agent systems are gaining interest in the academic community and in industry. In such open settings, agents are often coordinated using standardized agent conversation protocols. The representation of such protocols (for analysis, validation, monitoring, etc) is an important aspect of multi-agent applications. Recently, Petri nets have been shown to be an interesting appr...

Despite its significance for understanding of language acquisition, the role of childhood language experience has been examined only in linguistic deprivation studies focusing on what cannot be learned readily beyond childhood. This study focused instead on long-term effects of what can be learned best during childhood. Our findings revealed that adults learning a language speak with a more nat...

We propose a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication, and a continuously changing set of contextaware autonomous systems. In our approach, rooted in multi-agent and team programming, coordination and cooperation are supported via “social awareness” and overhearing. ...

In this report, we propose the Appointed BrOadcast (ABO) method to achieve packet overhearing to reduce the routing overhead in the IEEE 802.11 mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Using the ABO method, IEEE 802.11 frames are modified in such a way that the Intended Receiver Address (IRA) is appended to the frame body. These ABO frames are broadcasted to enable packet overhearing while keeping the ...