The architecture of innovation: Tracking face-to-face interactions with UbiComp technologies

UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 811-822

  Brown, Chloë ^a   Efstratiou, Christos ^b   Leontiadis, Ilias ^c   Quercia, Daniele ^d   Mascolo, Cecilia ^a   Scott, James ^e   Key, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c Telefonica Research   (Italy)

^d YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Building design; Face to face interaction; Location sensing; Ubiquitous computing; Workplace communication

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BUILDINGS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BUILDING DESIGN; FACE-TO-FACE INTERACTION; LARGE-SCALE DEPLOYMENT; LOCATION-SENSING; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84908587590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2632048.2632056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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