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Pointing is a key mode of interaction with robots, yet most prior work has focused on recognition rather than generation. We present a motion capture dataset of human pointing gestures covering diverse styles, handedness, and spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Anna Deichler , Siyang Wang , Simon Alexanderson , Jonas Beskow

Easily programming behaviors is one major issue of a large and reconfigurable deployment in the Internet of Things. Such kind of devices often requires to externalize part of their behavior such as the sensing, the data aggregation or the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Baptiste Maingret , Frédéric Le Mouël , Julien Ponge , Nicolas Stouls , Jian Cao , Yannick Loiseau

Almost all of the current process scheduling algorithms which are used in modern operating systems (OS) have their roots in the classical scheduling paradigms which were developed during the 1970's. But modern computers have different types…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2010-12-16 Mohammad R Nikseresht , Anil Somayaji , Anil Maheshwari

The recent development of smartphone and wearable sensor technologies enable general public to carry self-tracking tasks more easily. Much work has been devoted to life data collection and visualisation to help people with better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Li Guo

Modern mobile devices are able to provide context-aware and personalized services to the users, by leveraging on their sensing capabilities to infer the activity and situation in which a person is currently involved. Current solutions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro

In the past decade, the usage of mobile devices has gone far beyond simple activities like calling and texting. Today, smartphones contain multiple embedded sensors and are able to collect useful sensing data about the user and infer the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Saar Tal , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

The human activity recognition in the IoT environment plays the central role in the ambient assisted living, where the human activities can be represented as a concatenated event stream generated from various smart objects. From the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Minkyoung Cho , Younggi Kim , Younghee Lee

Human activity recognition based on mobile device sensor data has been an active research area in mobile and pervasive computing for several years. While the majority of the proposed techniques are based on supervised learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Gabriele Civitarese , Riccardo Presotto , Claudio Bettini

In an IoP environment, edge computing has been proposed to address the problems of resource limitations of edge devices such as smartphones as well as the high-latency, user privacy exposure and network bottleneck that the cloud computing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Khaled Alanezi , Shivakant Mishra

Context information brings new opportunities for efficient and effective applications and services on mobile devices. A wide range of research has exploited context dependency, i.e., the relations between context(s) and the outcome, to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2012-09-11 Ahmad Rahmati , Clayton Shepard , Chad Tossell , Lin Zhong , Philip Kortum

Software development is a cognitively intensive process requiring multitasking, adherence to evolving workflows, and continuous learning. With the rise of large language model (LLM)-based tools, such as conversational agents (CAs), there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Glaucia Melo , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Software systems development nowadays has moved towards dynamic composition of services that run on distributed infrastructures aligned with continuous changes in the system requirements. Consequently, software developers need to tailor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Mahdi Fahmideh , Mohsen Sharifi , Fereidoon Shams , Hasan Haghighi

The number of Sensor Observation Service (SOS) instances available online has been increasing in the last few years. The SOS specification standardises interfaces and data formats for exchanging sensor-related in-formation between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-09-22 Alain Tamayo , Pablo Viciano , Carlos Granell , Joaquín Huerta

The emergence of Internet of Things technology and recent advancement in sensor networks enabled transportation systems to a new dimension called Intelligent Transportation System. Due to increased usage of vehicles and communication among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Swarnamugi. M , Chinnaiyan. R

The pursuit of improved accuracy in recommender systems has led to the incorporation of user context. Context-aware recommender systems typically handle large amounts of data which must be uploaded and stored on the cloud, putting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Benu Madhab Changmai , Divija Nagaraju , Debi Prasanna Mohanty , Kriti Singh , Kunal Bansal , Sukumar Moharana

Context awareness is increasingly gaining applicability in interactive ubiquitous mobile computing systems. Each context-aware application has its own set of behaviors to react to context modifications. This paper is concerned with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Mao Zheng , Qian Xu , Hao Fan

Active sensing is traditionally defined as the expenditure of energy, typically in the form of movement, for obtaining information. Here, we propose that the combination of reliance on adaptive sensors, the linkage between movement and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Andrew Lamperski , Debojyoti Biswas , Eric S. Fortune , John Guckenheimer , Kathleen Hoffman , Noah J. Cowan

When performing visual servoing or object tracking tasks, active sensor planning is essential to keep targets in sight or to relocate them when missing. In particular, when dealing with a known target missing from the sensor's field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Minkyu Kim , Luis Sentis

We propose a real-time context-aware learning system along with the architecture that runs on the mobile devices, provide services to the user and manage the IoT devices. In this system, an application running on mobile devices collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Bhaskar Das , Jalal Almhana

Adopting serverless computing to edge networks benefits end-users from the pay-as-you-use billing model and flexible scaling of applications. This paradigm extends the boundaries of edge computing and remarkably improves the quality of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peiyuan Guan , Chen Chen , Ziru Chen , Lin X. Cai , Xing Hao , Amir Taherkordi