A systematic approach to the design of distributed wearable systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1017-1033

  Anliker, Urs ^a   Beutel, Jan ^a   Dyer, Matthias ^a   Enzler, Rolf ^a   Lukowicz, Paul ^a   Thiele, Lothar ^a   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERGONOMICS; ESTIMATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

DEVICE PLACEMENT REQUIREMENTS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED WEARABLE SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM;

WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

EID: 3242657407     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.36     Document Type: Article

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