Sensor networks or smart artifacts? An exploration of organizational issues of an industrial health and safety monitoring system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4717 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 465-482

  Kortuem, Gerd ^a   Alford, David ^b   Ball, Linden ^b   Busby, Jerry ^c   Davies, Nigel ^a   Efstratiou, Christos ^a   Finney, Joe ^a   White, Marian Iszatt ^c   Kinder, Katharina ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compliance architecture; Occupational health and safety; Organizational fit; Privacy; Risk management; Safety culture; Sensor network; Smart artifact; Ubiquitous computing; Workplace support

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

COMPLIANCE ARCHITECTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL FITS; SAFETY CULTURE; SMART ARTIFACTS; WORKPLACE SUPPORT;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 38149052227     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74853-3_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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