Supporting rapid design and evaluation of pervasive applications: Challenges and solutions

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-269

  Tang, Lei ^a,b   Yu, Zhiwen ^a,b   Zhou, Xingshe ^a   Wang, Hanbo ^a   Becker, Christian ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARENESS; DESIGN ISSUES; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; PERVASIVE APPLICATIONS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PROTOTYPING; RAPID DESIGN; RESEARCH AREAS; RESEARCH PROTOTYPE; USER EXPERIENCE;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

DESIGN;

EID: 79956139832     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0332-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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