The universal control hub: An open platform for remote user interfaces in the digital home

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

Volumn 4551 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 1040-1049

  Zimmermann, Gottfried ^a   Vanderheiden, Gregg ^b  

^a Access Technologies Group Germany   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Digital home; Remote user interfaces; Task based user interfaces; Universal control hub; Universal remote console; Usability

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; REMOTE CONSOLES; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

ACCESSIBILITY; REMOTE USER INTERFACES; TASK-BASED USER INTERFACES; UNIVERSAL CONTROL HUB; UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONSOLES;

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS;

EID: 38149097024     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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