Implementing multiplayer pervasive installations based on mobile sensing devices: Field experience and user evaluation from a public showcase

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1989-2004

  Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis ^a,b   Mylonas, Georgios ^a,b   Kokkinos, Panagiotis ^a,b   Akribopoulos, Orestis ^a,b   Logaras, Marios ^a,b   Mavrommati, Irene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Application; Context aware; Deployment; Gaming; Large scale; Location aware; Middleware; Mobile; Pervasive; Sensors

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE; DEPLOYMENT; GAMING; LARGE-SCALE; LOCATION-AWARE; MOBILE; PERVASIVE;

EXPERIMENTS; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; USER INTERFACES;

SENSORS;

EID: 80052780476     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.06.062     Document Type: Article

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