Survey on context-awareness in ubiquitous media

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 179-211

  Zhang, Daqiang ^a   Huang, Hongyu ^b   Lai, Chin Feng ^c   Liang, Xuedong ^d   Zou, Qin ^e   Guo, Minyi ^f  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Survey; Ubiquitous media

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; MEDIA APPLICATION; REFERENCE FRAMEWORKS; SYSTEMATIC RESEARCH; UBIQUITOUS MEDIA; WIDE SPECTRUM;

HARDWARE; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SURVEYING;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84881143462     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-011-0940-9     Document Type: Article

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