Ubicorder: A mobile device for situated interactions with sensor networks

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 818-828

  Mittal, Manas ^a   Paradiso, Joseph A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical user interfaces; human computer interaction; pattern analysis; pervasive computing; sensor fusion; ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SENSOR; EVENT DETECTION; GRAPHICAL INTERFACE; HANDHELDS; HIGHER ORDER; HUMAN-COMPUTER; IN-SITU; INFERENCE RULES; NETWORK EXPERIENCES; PATTERN ANALYSIS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; REAL-TIME SENSOR NETWORKS; REAL-WORLD; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR FUSION; USER STUDY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MOBILE DEVICES; SENSOR NETWORKS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 79551636326     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2081976     Document Type: Article

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