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SoPresent: An Awareness System for Connecting Remote Households

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Families and friends are often separated by distance making it difficult for them to stay in touch with each other. A prolific number of popular communication technologies and social are testimony how important informal and social communication with friends and family can be, and how this can drive industrial and business developments.

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Dadlani, P., Gritti, T., Shan, C., de Ruyter, B., Markopoulos, P. (2014). SoPresent: An Awareness System for Connecting Remote Households. In: Aarts, E., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8850. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14112-1_6

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