WearIT@work: A wearable computing solution for knowledge-based development

International Journal of Knowledge-Based Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 346-360

  Pasher, Edna ^a   Popper, Zvika ^a   Raz, Hadas ^a   Lawo, Michael ^b,c  

^a 35 Rofe Hamachtarot St   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c Entrance E   (Germany)

Author keywords

Empowering workers; Innovation; Knowledge cities; Living labs; LL; UCD; User centred design; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857208736     PISSN: 20404468     EISSN: 20404476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJKBD.2010.038043     Document Type: Article

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