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...dvancements in the field of information technology in the late 1960’s when he stated that “the number of transistors per chip and constantly the power of microprocessors double about every 18 months” =-=[35]-=-. Erstwhile, this would permit the manufacture of microprocessors so small and inexpensive that they can be embedded into just anything, not only electrical devices, but also non-electrical devices li...

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... Chicago sociologists; Robert Park and his successor Everett Hughes, as they engaged in an extensive program in which they investigated urban and working life in America between the 1930’s and 1960’s =-=[37]-=-. 22sIn their investigation, they carried out detailed exploration of several modes of work, how they are being carried out, what ensues as they are been done and how the workers react to several situ...

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...ps, a computer-based system would be notified so it could perform the task without taking any physical instructions from the individual whose actions are being tracked. Another example is the Mavhome =-=[5]-=- project that "focuses on the creation of an environment that acts as an intelligent agent perceiving the state of the home through sensors and acting through device controllers. The agent's goal is a...

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...ret K. Nelson and Rebecca Schutz (2007) – “Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Class”[31], and lastly Elizabeth A. Hoffmann: Open-Ended Interviews (2007) - “Power and Emotional Labour”=-=[44]-=-. The approach, perspective, results and understandings that emerge from these works and that of early works done by Malinowski, Becker, Wager, etc have since led to the incorporation of ethnography i...

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.......................................................8 1.2.1 Magic Wardrobe: Situated shopping from your own wardrobe [50]................8 1.2.2 What am I gonna Wear: Scenario-oriented recommendation =-=[42]-=- ...................8 1.2.3 Smarthome: Digitally engineered domestic life [43]........................................9 1.2.4 Closet Buddy: Dressing the visually impaired [41]............................

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...apture details about the code. There are basically two types of barcodes i.e. the linear barcode that is based on the Universal Product Code (UPC) and is widely used in stores. These use between nine =-=(9)-=- to eleven (11) decimal digits and essentially provide an index to an application database which is used to extract information quickly about the product at hand via a reader. Due to the increased dem...

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...and Paul Higgins: Tell me about the test (2007) - “The Construction of Truth and Lies in the Drug Court”[34], Jeanine Marie Minge: The stained body (2007) - “A fusion of embodied art on rape and love”=-=[25]-=-, Margaret K. Nelson and Rebecca Schutz (2007) – “Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Class”[31], and lastly Elizabeth A. Hoffmann: Open-Ended Interviews (2007) - “Power and Emotional ...

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... (Next generation display) – with outstanding high contrast ratio, high response speed, and wide viewing angle [3]. An invaluable display technology is the AnchoredDisplay featured in- “Web on Walls” =-=[30]-=-. The AnchoredDisplay system offers a new metaphor for displaying dynamically changing information. It is natural for humans to look at particular places for particular information. For example, it wi...

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...ittle or no training. UbiComp systems at home should be designed such that it can accommodate the rich and diverse nature in which people plan and organize their homes and the way of life in the home =-=[1]-=-. The system must provide the household with resources that will enable them to artfully re-design their systems to suit them rather than enforcing systems that are remotely connected with their own l...

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...o the store or boutique that sells the item of clothing with the retrieved ID on the phone or PDA and the user can then purchase that item [17]. A second example is the “Perfect Price Discrimination” =-=[2]-=- in which product prices are being merged to the price a particular customer is ready to pay. Although this did not work as it faced a lot of criticism when adopted by Amazon. The “Pay-per-use” and “N...

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...ck on what could be achieved. Many resulting systems were tested mainly within the precincts of the institution, on the staff, designers themselves or a few external people. In the home, the Morphome =-=[24]-=- project was to use a sensor network to track human activities in order to pro-actively anticipate the direction of human activity. This would make it possible to predict the next action so that perha...

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...anine Marie Minge: The stained body (2007) - “A fusion of embodied art on rape and love”[25], Margaret K. Nelson and Rebecca Schutz (2007) – “Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Class”=-=[31]-=-, and lastly Elizabeth A. Hoffmann: Open-Ended Interviews (2007) - “Power and Emotional Labour”[44]. The approach, perspective, results and understandings that emerge from these works and that of earl...

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...“we are trying to conceive a new way of thinking about computers in the world, one that takes into account the natural human environment and allows computers themselves to vanish into the background” =-=[33]-=-. He also claimed that machines that fit the human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs will make using a computer as refreshing as a walk in the woods – (The human experience)- [33]....

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...isure, crime, religion, drugs and politics; some of which includes work by Mitchell B. Mackinem and Paul Higgins: Tell me about the test (2007) - “The Construction of Truth and Lies in the Drug Court”=-=[34]-=-, Jeanine Marie Minge: The stained body (2007) - “A fusion of embodied art on rape and love”[25], Margaret K. Nelson and Rebecca Schutz (2007) – “Day Care Differences and the Reproduction of Social Cl...

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...-oriented recommendation [42] ...................8 1.2.3 Smarthome: Digitally engineered domestic life [43]........................................9 1.2.4 Closet Buddy: Dressing the visually impaired =-=[41]-=-..........................................9 2 Ubiquitous Computing....................................................................................................11 2.1 What is in a design?..........

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...tuated shopping from your own wardrobe [50]................8 1.2.2 What am I gonna Wear: Scenario-oriented recommendation [42] ...................8 1.2.3 Smarthome: Digitally engineered domestic life =-=[43]-=-........................................9 1.2.4 Closet Buddy: Dressing the visually impaired [41]..........................................9 2 Ubiquitous Computing........................................

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................7 1.2 Related Studies / Projects .........................................................................................8 1.2.1 Magic Wardrobe: Situated shopping from your own wardrobe =-=[50]-=-................8 1.2.2 What am I gonna Wear: Scenario-oriented recommendation [42] ...................8 1.2.3 Smarthome: Digitally engineered domestic life [43]..........................................