RunWithUs: A social sports application in the ubiquitous Oulu environment

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 195-204

  Gil Castiñeira, Felipe ^a   Fernández López, Antía ^b   Bravo, Cristina López ^a   Cid Vieytes, Nerea ^b   Conde Lagoa, David ^a   Costa Montenegro, Enrique ^a   González Castaño, Francisco Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b GRADIANT   (Spain)

Author keywords

location based service; social sports; ubiquitous computing; urban computing; urban informatics

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; INFORMATICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POTENTIAL USERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPORTS APPLICATIONS; TECHNICAL VIABILITY; URBAN COMPUTING;

HEALTH; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

SPORTS;

EID: 84863521159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2107596.2107621     Document Type: Conference Paper

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