Recent Submissions

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  ENGAGE-DEM : a model of engagement of people with dementia 

  Perugia, Giulia (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018-12-21)
  Doctoral thesis
  Open Access

  Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that affects cognition, producing a reduction in thinking, problem-solving, and mnemonic abilities, functioning, preventing affected people to care for themselves and carry out ...
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  Energy-aware home area networking 

  Khan, Rafiullah (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-12-16)
  Doctoral thesis
  Open Access
  Covenantee:   Università degli Studi di Genova

  A study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) revealed that about 60% of the office PCs are left powered-up 24/7 only to maintain the network connectivity for remote access, Voice-over-IP (VOIP) clients, Instant ...
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  Unifying interaction across distributed controls in a smart environment using anthropology-based computing to make human-computer interaction "Calm" 

  Brown, John N.A. (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-04-04)
  Doctoral thesis
  Open Access

  Rather than adapt human behavior to suit a life surrounded by computerized systems, is it possible to adapt the systems to suit humans? Mark Weiser called for this fundamental change to the design and engineering of computer ...