The computer for the 21st century
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special issue dedicated to Mark Weiser
The cougar approach to in-network query processing in sensor networks
ACM SIGMOD Record
The smart floor: a mechanism for natural user identification and tracking
CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Inside the Smart House
Spontaneous Hotspots: Sharing Context-Dependant Resources Using Bluetooth
ICAS '06 Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
Good Manners for Pervasive Computing--An Approach Based on the Ambient Calculus
PERCOMW '07 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Ubi-Board: A Smart Information Diffusion System
NEW2AN '08 / ruSMART '08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference, NEW2AN and 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking
TileTrack: Capacitive human tracking using floor tiles
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
A classification and modeling of the quality of contextual information in smart spaces
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Ubiquitous human motion capture using Wearable micro-sensors
PERCOM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
Extending Context Spaces Theory by Predicting Run-Time Context
NEW2AN '09 and ruSMART '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking and Second Conference on Smart Spaces
Ubi-Check: A Pervasive Integrity Checking System
NEW2AN '09 and ruSMART '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking and Second Conference on Smart Spaces
PowerLine positioning: a practical sub-room-level indoor location system for domestic use
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Proceedings of the 2011 international workshop on Situation activity & goal awareness
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The state-of-the-art solutions in the Smart Home domain rely on a logical approach, based on a heavy instrumentation of the environment and on complex techniques that analyze very large amounts of data, collected by sensing devices disseminated in the environment. These aspects negatively influence the delivery of transparent and effective user services. This paper proposes the adoption of a physical approach, in which the information and the computations are carried and executed directly by augmented physical entities, allowing small, meaningful exchanges of data that need less complicated processing. The result is a seamless delivery of useful, transparent and effective user services. The paper describes this approach in detail, analyzes some drawbacks of the state-of-the-art Smart Homes, shows how the physical approach can address those issues and illustrates a prototype that demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed solution.