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Teaching pervasive computing courses is challenging during "normal" times,1 let alone during a global pandemic. With the transition to remote learning due to the COVID-19 crisis, we invested much effort into a comprehensive redesign of our tangible and embodied interaction (TEI) course for an online format. In this article, we share our experience and lessons learned from teaching this remote version

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how the healthcare system could be overwhelmed. Telehealth stands out to be an effective solution, where patients can be monitored remotely without packing hospitals and exposing healthcare givers to the deadly virus. This article presents our Intel award winning solution for diagnosing COVID-19 related symptoms and similar contagious diseases. Our solution realizes

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A large online advertisement company recently seems to have finally squared the circle: personalized advertisements without tracking cookies—code name “FLoC”! Is this too good to be true, and can (should?) this serve as a model for IoT privacy?

The articles in this special section focus on pervasive video and audio. For a long time, cameras and microphones have been studied to give machines the ability to see and hear the world around them. The remarkable progress in artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has pushed this perception ability to a new high. AI-enabled cameras and microphones are now able to replicate human-like reasoning

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The TELECOVID study (https://www.telecovid.de) is designed to remotely monitor the physiological health status of COVID-19 positive-risk patients in home isolation. Key vital parameters are measured day and night using an in-ear biosensor technology. These data are streamed to the clinic in real time to enable timely interaction in case of deterioration.

LoRa has emerged in recent years as a wireless technology providing long-range communication for low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The LoRaWAN architecture adds the medium access control (MAC) and application layers, and defines a star of stars topology suitable for many and diverse IoT applications. However, in a number of scenarios, a more flexible network topology than LoRaWAN’s is needed

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With the pandemic going into its second year, many are questioning its long-term impact, not only on things like health and economy, but also on more minute details of our lives. Pervasive computing has a long tradition of seeking to change the “details” of our lives—does our field already have answers on how to measure such long-term implications?

The articles in this special section illustrates the wide range of ways in which pervasive fabrication technologies can contribute to producing physical artifacts that fulfill user needs in a more tailored and customized way than today’s mass production does. At the same time, they provide a glimpse of the future, where technology-informed and technology enabled making can address physical needs individually

Personal fabrication is celebrating technological break-throughs that will enable us to easily generate new physical forms and shapes. It democratizes the capability of building physical things and may usher in the era of physical natives. Stefanie Mueller and Patrick Baudisch critically review the state of the art and speculate on the future use and users of personal fabrication, while highlighting

In this article, we reflect on two virtual workshops that we held during the ACM AutomotiveUI 2020 conference, where we aimed to provide participants an experience similar to in-person meetings, while at the same time making use of digital services for group collaboration. In particular, we elaborate on relevant differences, advantages, and disadvantages of virtual and physical workshops, discuss which

There has recently been increased interest in context-aware mobile sensing applications due to the ubiquity of sensor-rich smartphones. Our DARPA-funded Warfighter Analytics for Smartphone Healthcare (WASH) project is exploring passive assessment methods using smartphone biomarkers and context-specific tests. Our envisioned context-specific assessments require accurate recognition of specific smartphone

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A new vision of harnessing the ocean of video data captured by cameras in an efficient, secure, and manageable way. Following the hardware trends in reality, we advocate to treat cameras as the first-class computing and storage platform, and expose their services to third parties. To this end, the cameras should move from hard-coded to software-defined, from dumb data source to autonomous data processor

The real world presents interpretable visual detail at different scales in different situations. While empowering face recognition, augmented reality, and other computer vision tasks, mobile systems should be able to dynamically adapt the spatiotemporal resolution of the visual sensing pipeline to capture image frames at high resolutions for task precision and low resolutions for energy savings. Facilitating

In a world of rich, complex, and demanding audio environments, intelligent systems can mediate our interaction with the sounds around us—both to enable meaningful, aesthetic experiences and to transition work from humans to computational agents. Drawing from several years of our research, we suggest that the design of such systems must be driven by a deep understanding of auditory cognition. In this

Emerging cloud-based video streaming applications suggest limitations on current video streaming systems and emphasize the need to preserve and exchange high-quality contents while minimizing processing latency, given that both are critical in perpetuating a high user-perceived quality. This article presents 4KODEC, a codec for supporting real-time high-quality videos for cloud-based video streaming

The tools for personal digital fabrication (DF) are on the verge of reaching mass-adoption beyond technology enthusiasts, empowering consumers to fabricate personalized artifacts. We argue that to achieve similar outreach and impact as personal computing, personal fabrication research may have to venture beyond ever-simpler interfaces for creation, towards lowest-effort workflows for remixing. We surveyed

The past few years have witnessed the great potential of exploiting channel state information (CSI) retrieved from commodity WiFi devices for contactless human sensing. However, a severe problem hindering practical WiFi sensing applications is that the obtained CSI data contains a large amount of noise, leading to short sensing range and low sensing accuracy. Aiming at solving the critical problem

In this article, we review past and current system architectures displaying self-organization in the domain of manufacturing. Based on a corpus of 84 reference papers, we find that multiagent systems (MAS) play a significant role in self-organization, especially MAS featuring bio-inspired algorithms for agent coordination. The emergence of new classes of cyber-physical systems further strengthens the

Today the infrastructure needed to support pervasive computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) is unparalleled as entirely new classes of applications and systems emerge. For example, pervasive systems designed to augment human cognition with tasks such as face recognition must operate at “superhuman speeds,” delivering insights to help with human decision-making within very strict and narrow time

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Reports on the activities of the CS Makers' Lab ("Things that Think") in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reports on the experiences of doctoral consortia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Have you ever tried to speed up a revolving door by pushing the panel in front of you, only to trigger its security mechanism and make it stop? If so, it is a simple example of a situation in which your mental representation of a system (door) and its actual functioning did not align. In other words, you applied an incorrect mental model. Understanding mental models can be important in a variety of

WHY WEARABLES? Researchers and health policy managers turned to smartphones and on-body devices mostly for their ubiquity, i.e., to offer health and safety-related information to a large share of the population or gather patient responses. Yet, smartphones and wearables enable fast data and information flow, which is particularly relevant for the rapid infectious character of SARS-CoV-2. We observe

In a Philadelphia neighborhood where opioid overdoses are frequent, neighbors used a smartphone app to request and give help for victims of suspected overdose. A one-year study demonstrated the feasibility of this approach, which empowered the local community to save lives and even respond to overdoses faster than emergency medical services.

It is the end of summer. What many thought would simply be a “bad start” into the year has proven to have a longer lasting effect. With COVID-19 infections still (or again) on the rise around the world, what lies ahead for research and education in our field?

The growth of edge computing depends on large-scale deployments of edge infrastructure. Benchmarking applications are needed to compare the performance across different edge deployments and against device-only and cloud-only implementations. In this article, we present OpenRTiST, an open-source application that is simultaneously compute-intensive, bandwidth-hungry, and latency-sensitive. It implements

Edge computing was motivated by the vision of new edge-native applications that are compute-intensive, bandwidth-hungry, and latency-sensitive. We show how infrastructure deployed for such futuristic applications can also benefit virtual machine (VM)-encapsulated Windows or Linux closed-source legacy applications. We present a new capability for legacy applications called edge-based virtual desktop

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By the time you are holding this issue in your hands (or accessed it online), your smartphone will most likely already have downloaded the new OS extensions by Google and Apple to enable contact tracing via BLE. A watershed moment for… Public health? Governmental location tracking? Privacy by design? Cross-platform interoperability?

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Interventions to improve the medication adherence have had limited success and can require significant human resources to implement. Research focused on improving medication adherence has undergone a paradigm shift, of late, with a shift toward developing personalized, theory-driven interventions. The current research integrates foundational and translational science to implement a mechanism-focused

The articles in this special section focus on personalized pervasive health. For over more than two decades, mobile, wearable, and ambient sensor and interaction devices have grown into today’s plethora of computing platforms and tools for pervasive health. Pervasive computing is now assimilating into medicine, from disease risk prevention to diagnostics, and from treatment support to chronic-care

Physical, mental, and behavioral processes of most living beings underlie cyclic changes, mainly governed by the day-night cycle. Investigations of these circadian rhythms have traditionally required constrained settings and invasive methods, such as repetitive blood testing and testing in sleep laboratories. Recent developments in pervasive technology, e.g., the proliferation of smartphones in our

Examines the concept of "thorough evaluations.” For example, are authors supposed to show clinical evidence for the health efficacy of their technology? Or, are they supposed to show that the technology is technically sound and working? Or, that it is secure and has appropriate privacy-protection of sensitive personal data? Or, that the technology is usable and user-friendly for the users? Or, ...

Reports on issues dealing with user-centered design (UCD) in digital healthcare. UCD is the focus of many teams developing digital health innovations, yet principles are not always effectively employed. We have identified several common ways that UCD principles fall short at all stages of the design process and steps to overcome those pitfalls. From connecting patients, providers, and caregivers, to