Quality of life technologies: Experiences from the field and key challenges

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 28-35

  Wac, Katarzyna ^a,b   Fiordelli, Maddalena ^c   Gustarini, Mattia ^b   Rivas, Homero ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet Web technologies; living lab; mobile computing; mobile health; mobile Internet; mobility patterns; quality of experience; quality of life; quality of service

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934268117     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2015.52     Document Type: Article

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