Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 211-220

  Bardram, Jakob E ^a   Bunde Pedersen, Jonathan ^a   Soegaard, Mads ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ABC; Activity Based Computing; Task Management; Ubiquitous Computing; User Evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; USER INTERFACES;

ABC; ACTIVITY-BASED COMPUTING; TASK MANAGEMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER EVALUATION;

PERSONAL COMPUTING;

EID: 33745824661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1124772.1124805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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