Who Is the Assumed User in the Smart City?

Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities: Urban Design to IoT Solutions

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 17-32

  Harrison, Katherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artefact; Assumed user; Big data; Internet of things; Smart city

Indexed keywords

EID: 85128503785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44924-1_2     Document Type: Chapter

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