Non-homogenous Network, Control Hub and Smart Controller (NCS) approach to incremental smart homes

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

Volumn 4555 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 238-244

  Vanderheiden, Gregg ^a   Zimmermann, Gottfried ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Access Technologies Group Germany   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

DIGITAL HOME; REMOTE USER INTERFACES; TASK-BASED USER INTERFACES; UNIVERSAL CONTROL HUB; UNIVERSAL REMOTE CONSOLE;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 38149136686     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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