Acoustic environment as an indicator of social and physical context

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 241-254

  Smith, Dan ^a   Ma, Ling ^a   Ryan, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic environment; Adaptive feedback; Classification; Context awareness; Machine learning; Mobile computing

Indexed keywords

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SOUND RECORDING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

ACOUSTIC ENVIRONMENT; ADAPTIVE FEEDBACK; CONTEXT AWARENESS; SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL CONTEXT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33645295209     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-005-0045-4     Document Type: Article

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