A taxonomy of ambient information systems: Four patterns of design

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 67-74

  Pousman, Zachary ^a   Stasko, John ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient display; Design guidelines; Notification system; Peripheral display; Taxonomy; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT DISPLAY; DESIGN GUIDELINES; NOTIFICATION SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL DISPLAY; TAXONOMY;

PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; USER INTERFACES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34247125977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1133265.1133277     Document Type: Conference Paper

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