Toward wearable social networking with iBand

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1521-1524

  Kanis, Marije ^a   Winters, Niall ^b   Agamanolis, Stefan ^a   Gavin, Anna ^a   Cullinan, Cian ^a  

^a Media Lab Europe   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human relationships; Social networking; Ubiquitous computing; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS; PERSONAL INFORMATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; WEARABLE COMPUTING; WEARABLE DEVICES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EID: 34247107752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1056956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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