System Architecture For multi-device support used centralized architecture, where all devices inform the server about their state in real-time. Subsequently, the server changes the states of all other devices accordingly. Moreover, the centralized system has a simpler design that excludes any consensus problem. …

Motivation This is a centralized system that maintains the interaction between Smartphones (aka Mascots), Lamps, Tablets, and Speakers. Here, users’ smartphones become their personal Mascots being able to autonomously connect to four other devices, i.e., other Mascots, lamps, tablets, and speakers. The proximity is used to initiate communication between these devices…

Персонализация данных. Лиза и Боб спорят насчёт использования вакцины. Лиза утверждает что “Вакцинация не протестирована должным образом и поэтому следует от неё отказаться”. Однако, Лизе так кажется, потому что в соцсетях только об этом и говорят. Боб же, наоборот, уверен, что вакцинация предотвращает распространение болезни. А всё потому, что в его ленте…

The Theory of Proxemics Edward Hall conceptualized the idea of a personal space bubble by creating a whole system of notation to understand and record how people navigate shared space. He correlated a physical distance to a social distance and identified four distances that are measured horizontally: The intimate distance which varies from 1…

Ubiquitous Computing The attempts to make technologies invisible in the background led to the emergence of a new approach — Ubiquitous Computing (aka UC). The “Ubiquitous Computing” was initially put forward by Mark Weiser in “The computer for the 21st Century” paper. Ubiquitous computing is a new way of thinking about computers…