The Importance of Translucence in Mobile Computing Systems

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 42-67

  Ebling, Maria R ^a   John, Bonnie E ^b   Satyanarayanan, M ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coda; Design; disconnected operation; Experimentation; Human Factors; mobile computing; translucent cache management; weakly connected operation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84974530506     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/505151.505153     Document Type: Article

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