Designing mediation for context-aware applications

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-80

  Dey, Anind K ^a,b   Mankoff, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Aware environments; Context aware computing; Error handling; Mediation; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; AWARE ENVIRONMENTS; CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; ERROR HANDLING; MEDIATION; UBLIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SENSORS;

EID: 18844413057     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1057237.1057241     Document Type: Article

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