Out on the town: A socio-physical approach to the design of a context-aware urban guide

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1-34

  Paay, Jeni ^a   Kjeldskov, Jesper ^b   Howard, Steve ^a   Dave, Bharat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Conceptual framework; Field evaluation; Field study; Pervasive computing; Physical context; Prototype design; Social context; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FIELD EVALUATION; FIELD STUDY; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PHYSICAL CONTEXT; PROTOTYPE DESIGN; SOCIAL CONTEXT; URBAN ENVIRONMENT;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 67651042962     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1534903.1534904     Document Type: Article

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