July 31, 2010
 
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Soft and elastic circuits for electronics anywhere, not just everywhere
Stéphanie P. Lacour

Electronic circuits become compliant and will thus enable development of improved interfaces with 3D structures, including the human body.

 
Recent Articles

Context-aware brain-computer interfaces
Ricardo Chavarriaga and José del R. Millán
Systems using brain-generated signals can control complex, smart devices by taking into account information about the situation at hand, as well as the operator's cognitive state.


Democratic potential of the Fifth Estate
William Dutton
An emerging network of individuals is enabling new ways of holding government, media and other institutions more to account, but its vitality is threatened by other estates of the Internet realm.


Simplicity in search technology is the ultimate sophistication
Dag Johansen and Bjørn Olstad
Development of next-generation, large-scale information-access systems requires a broad range of computer-science advancements in computing infrastructure and algorithmic user experiences.


Intelligent agents for the smart grid
Alex Rogers and Nicholas R. Jennings
A novel approach delivers the autonomous, intelligent behaviour required of the smart grid.


Pervasive adoption of social norms in workplace interactions
Mónica Sara Santos
An anonymous online system for flagging violations of cultural norms can address potential conflicts in open-plan offices.


Touching the future: the rise of multitouch interfaces
Johannes Schöning
Advances in sensor and hardware implementation enable expressive gestural control and fluid multi-user collaboration in human/computer interactions.


SATURN, the UK Ministry of Defence Grand Challenge winner
Ken Wahren
A major robotics competition generated many ideas to detect military threats in the urban environment.


Social-aware content sharing in opportunistic networks
Franca Delmastro, Marco Conti, and Andrea Passarella
Context and social information of mobile users are important tools for efficient communication in intermittent-connectivity settings.


Trust and cooperation for critical resource sharing in sensor networks
Giuseppe Persiano and Angelo De Caro
Groups working together improves not just overall performance but also individual benefits for the components of a system.


Intelligence, control and the artificial mind
Ricardo Sanz
Artificial intelligence and cognitive science must look at the world of industrial-process control to find the technological reifications of the concept of mind.