February 09, 2010
 
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The secret life of the immune system: inspiring pervasive systems
Emma Hart

The immune system performs more than simply defence and exploiting its additional functionality can lead to the design of better pervasive adaptive systems.

 
Recent Articles

NASA deploys intelligent software agent technology
Maarten Sierhuis, William J. Clancey, and Timothy Hall
A new automated flight-control system for the International Space Station reduces workload by 90% by employing ethnographic observation and agent-based modelling and simulation.


Social adaptation in conversational agents
Stefan Kopp
Technology interfaces can improve human-machine interaction when they learn to adapt to users in social settings.


Gaze guidance for improved visual communication
Michael Dorr and Erhardt Barth
Novel systems to direct the gaze may enhance human vision for tasks such as driving or reading.


Self-organizing ants find new paths to scalability
Robert Tolksdorf
The principles of locality and decentralization found in nature could be the key to managing Web data traffic, as shown in initial experiments with a semantic store.


Simulating the emergence and innovation of norms
Ulf Lotzmann, Michael Möhring, and Klaus G. Troitzsch
Modelling situations in which agents can take offence at other agents' behaviour enables them to invent, learn and evolve social rules in a realistic way.


Diplomacy game: the test bed
Angela Fabregues and Carles Sierra
A rich shared-application domain is helping to further current research on negotiation and trust.


Using a brain/computer interface for smart-home control
Christoph Guger
Just by thinking, users can select computer commands to turn on television sets, open or close doors and play music.


Interacting in urban environments
Rod McCall
Mixed and augmented reality can enhance our experience of cities, allowing people to enter different time periods and take part in the urban design process.


Dynamic architectural topologies
Holger Schnädelbach
Audiovisual-communication technologies embedded in buildings create dynamic media spaces that encourage remote social interaction.


The secret life of digital images revealed
Michael Smyth and Ingi Helgason
Design of future technologies can be informed by exploration of rituals, behaviours and habits of everyday life through personal photographs.