Do walls have ears? Not right now, but it will not be long before walls not only have ears, but will also be able to see what we are doing and even tell us things that are relevant to our activities. Traditionally, when people said that walls have...

Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a post-desktop model of human-computer interaction in which information processing has been thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities. As opposed to the desktop paradigm, in which a single user...

When computer engineers draw schematics, they always represent the Internet as a cloud. The origins of this iconography are pretty simple: the Internet is a distributed network, so if you want to send data from point A to point B, the data gets broken...

SUMMARY * Asserts that embedding computers in the world will alter information designs for two-dimensional on-screen spaces * Argues for incorporation of commercial design, cognitive psychology, and architectural and civil design theories As our culture steps into an era of...

 See the computer screen. See the cute fishy. See the cute fishy get nice and plump.See the 24-year-old graduate student smile.A plump fish is good.A plump person is – well, not optimal.It sounds like a paradox: Sit in front of your computer screen and get...

Perhaps Chinook, the checker-playing computer program, should be renamed "King Me." Canadian researchers report they have "solved" checkers, developing a program that cannot lose in a game popular with young and old alike for more than a thousand years."The program can achieve at least a...