The information furnace: Consolidated home control

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-69

  Spinellis, Diomidis D ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Automation; Consumer electronics; Home control; Multi modal interfaces

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; DIGITAL DEVICES;

ANSWERING MACHINES; BACK-UP SERVERS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; HOME-CONTROL; INTERNET ROUTERS; MULTI-MODAL INTERFACES; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; VALUE ADDED SERVICE;

FURNACES;

EID: 4043167679     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-002-0213-8     Document Type: Article

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