In view of the rising social and economic inequalities, public service delivery should be both
universal, ie independent of the recipients' social or economic status, and contextualized, ie …

Mobile contexts of use vary a lot, and may even be continuously changing during use. The
context is much more than location, but its other elements are still difficult to identify or …

In 2001, Paul Dourish proposed the term embodied interaction to describe a new paradigm
for interaction design that focuses on the physical, bodily, and social aspects of our …

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively
uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing …

There is growing interest in designing for movement-based interactions with technology,
now that various sensing technologies are available enabling a range of movement …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

This dissertation studies user acceptance of mobile services based on a series of case
studies of mobile Internet and location-aware information services targeted at consumers …

Mobile urban environments present a challenge for context-aware computers because they
differ from fixed indoor contexts such as offices, meeting rooms, and lecture halls in many …

Pervasive Computing is a term for the strongly emerging trend toward:--Numerous, casually
accessible, often invisible computing devices.--Frequently mobile or embedded in the …

A recent trend in ubiquitous computing is the development of new forms of interfaces, which
rely on embodied interaction. We focus on the definition of embodiment that refers to the …