Human Factors in Ambient Intelligence Environments

Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1354-1373

  Stephanidis, Constantine ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence environments; AmIDesk, bootable, iRoom; Emerging challenges; Human factors in AMI environments; Human centered design, AMI environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886197144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118131350.ch49     Document Type: Chapter

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