Q-Aura: A quantitative model for managing mutual awareness of smart social artifacts

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 161-168

  Loke, Seng W ^a   Ling, Sea ^b   Indrawan, Maria ^b   Leung, Eddie ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aura; smart devices; social artifacts; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AURA; DATA EXCHANGE; HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS; MUTUAL AWARENESS; PHYSICAL ARTIFACTS; PHYSICAL PROXIMITY; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; RELATIVE LOCATION; SMART DEVICES; SOCIAL ARTIFACTS; SPATIAL MODEL OF INTERACTIONS; USER INTERVENTION; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; WHAT-IF;

LOCATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 78349310291     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2055150     Document Type: Article

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