Ubiquitous social presence: Context-awareness in a mobile learning environment

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing

Volumn 2006 I, Issue , 2006, Pages 90-95

  Kekwaletswe, Raymond M ^a   Ng'ambi, Dick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Context aware consultation; Instant messaging; Learning contexts; Social interaction; Social presence

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LOGIC; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOBILE COMPUTING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; USER INTERFACES;

CONTEXT-AWARE CONSULTATION; INSTANT MESSAGING; LEARNING CONTEXTS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PRESENCE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845443292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SUTC.2006.142     Document Type: Conference Paper

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