Assessing the human, social, and environmental risks of pervasive computing

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 853-874

  Hilty, Lorenz M ^a   Som, Claudia ^a   Köhler, Andreas ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Pervasive Computing; Qualitative risk assessment; Risk filter; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844249460     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490513874     Document Type: Article

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