Run to the Hills! Ubiquitous Computing Meltdown

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 164, Issue , 2007, Pages 157-172

  Huuskonen, Pertti ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

calm computing; context awareness; interoperability; overload; privacy; systems design; Ubiquitous computing; usability

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CALM COMPUTING; COMPUTING SYSTEM; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; HUMAN RACES; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; OVERLOAD; PRIVACY; UBIQUITOUS SYSTEMS; USABILITY; VARIOUS TECHNOLOGIES;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 85139390736     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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