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17.12.2011
In everyday interaction with devices and technology, users tend to give human attributes to technology. They may react socially to technology as if it were a human or make guesses about its’ intentions, such as “the computer is plotting against me...
17.12.2011
The paper presents a part of findings from a study carried out to gain insight on user understanding of smart environments and preferred ways and places for interaction with smart services therein. Here the writers concentrate on qualitative...
17.12.2011
The writers studied early user acceptance and experience issues related to smart environments based on interoperability. They present the results of the user study and discuss issues that seem to affect the user experience and acceptance of smart...
2.12.2011
DIEM Dissemination Day gathered together around 60 DIEM partners and collaborators to NRC, Ruoholahti. The event wrapped up the results made during the three first DIEM seasons in form of so-called Main Results.
Main Results were first presented by...
1.11.2011
DIEM was selected among the TIVIT programmes to be presented in ITEA-ARTEMIS Co-summit on October 25.-26. The DIEM demo to be highlighted was a technology mash-up related to gym-style exercise environments.
The demo consisted of a micropayment...
20.10.2011
Mobile Mixed Reality Work Package participated in the Workshop on Mobile Augmented Reality held at the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), presenting the paper "Expected User...
11.10.2011
Interoperability Work Package and Embedded Systems Laboratory of Åbo Akademi present a new DIEM related Master of Science thesis "Ontology driven application prototyping in a smartspace environment" by Jon von Weymarn.
The thesis presents a method...
11.10.2011
Interoperability Work Package and Embedded Systems Laboratory of Åbo Akademi present a new DIEM related Master of Science thesis "Calendar synchronization in a RDF-based smartspace environment" by Emil Karlsson.
To test the smartspace approach in a...
10.10.2011
Interoperability Work Package and Embedded Systems Laboratory of Åbo Akademi present a new DIEM related Master of Science thesis "Semantic Interoperability in Smart Environments" by Lakshman Veer.Ponguwala.
The main achievement of the thesis is...
7.10.2011
Oma Tonttu service by There Corporation is a wireless housekeeper that monitors and controls the energy consumption of a cottage or a villa. The system also enables changing room temperature via Internet.
The infrastructure of Tonttu is based on the...