Mobile agents for mobile tourists: A user evaluation of Gulliver's Genie

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 343-366

  O'Grady, M J ^a   O'Hare, G M P ^a   Sas, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Context sensitive service delivery; Intelligent agents; Mobile computing; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; EVALUATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; RELIABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL CONSTRAINTS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE SERVICE DELIVERY; INTELLIGENT PRE-CACHING; USER EVALUATION;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 19944401886     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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