Communicating With Smart Objects(c) Developing Technology for Usable[... ]stems 2003

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ISBN: N/A
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 191

Authors: James Kirkland, David Carmichael, Christopher L. Tinker, Gregory L. Tinker

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Table of Contents
BackCover
Communicating with Smart Objects
Introduction - The Role of Smart Devices in Communication
Smart devices
Part 1: Interaction
Chapter 1: New Distributed and Active Tools and Narrative Activities
2 New potentialities
3 Perspectives
4 References
Chapter 2: Smart Houses and Dependent People - Acceptability, Solvency and International Tendencies
2 Context
3 Method of analysis
4 Remaining problems
5 Conclusion
6 References
Chapter 3: Towards Multimodal Human-computer Dialogue by Intelligent Agents
2 Human-computer dialogue
3 Referring during dialogue
4 Concluding remarks
5 References
6 Glossary
Chapter 4: Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Artefacts
2 Problems and aims of the study
3 Method
4 Data processing and analyses
5 Results
6 Conclusions and prospects
7 Bibliography
Chapter 5: The Voice as a Means of Humanising Man-machine Interfaces
2 Emotions
3 Emotion in the voice
4 Communicating objects, emotions and the voice
5 Conclusion
6 Bibliography
Part 2: Software Infrastructure for Smart DevicesAmbient Intelligence
Chapter 6: Introduction to a Middleware Framework
2 Need for middleware frameworks
3 Some middleware frameworks
4 Conclusion
5 References
Chapter 7: A Model and Software Architecture for Location-management in Smart DevicesAmbient Communication Environments
2 Requirements for a location infrastructure
3 Location models
4 A generic location architecture
5 A Jini-based discrete location architecture
6 Conclusion: integration of location-management with service discovery infrastructures
7 References
Chapter 8: A Software Infrastructure for Distributed Applications on Mobile Physical Objects
2 The OSGi infrastructure
3 A middleware solution based on Jonathan
4 Example of application: the generic remote command
5 Conclusion
Chapter 9: Integrating a Multimedia Player in a Network of Communicating Objects
2 Motivation and orientation
3 Architecture specification
4 An example: the theatre demo
5 References
Chapter 10: Reverse Localisation
2 Implementing reverse localisation
3 Perspectives
Part 3: Networking Technologies for Smart Objects
Chapter 11: Wireless Techniques and Smart Devices
2 Air interface
3 Perspectives
4 Bibliography
5 Glossary
Chapter 12: Wireless Local Area Networks
2 Positioning the WLAN standards
3 Wireless networks generalities
4 Standards
5 Conclusion
6 References
7 Glossary
Chapter 13: Radio Links in the Millimeter Wave Band
2 Outdoor radio links in the millimeter wave band
3 Rain attenuation
4 Millimeter wave indoor LAN
5 Conclusions
6 References
7 Glossary
Chapter 14: Propagation of Radio Waves Inside and Outside Buildings
2 Electromagnetic waves
3 Mechanisms of propagation
4 Propagation channel properties
5 Propagation modelling
6 Conclusion
7 Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Chapter 15: Ad-Hoc Networks
2 Communicating objects
3 The Ad-Hoc networks
4 The problem of routing
5 A simplified solution
6 Conclusion
7 References
Chapter 16: INDEED - High Rate Infrared Communications in the Indoor Context
2 Wireless infrared transmissions
3 Eye safety
4 The INDEED solution
5 Perspectives and conclusion
6 References
7 Glossary
Chapter 17: Artificial Materials for Protected Communications
2 Description of a standard establishment
3 Artificial materials
4 Application of artificial materials to the confidentiality of the indoor transmission
5 Discussion and prospects
6 References
7 Acknowledgements
Chapter 18: Free-space Optical Communication Links
2 System aspects
3 Propagation aspects
4 Conclusion
5 Bibliography
Part 4: Evolution of Smart Devices
Chapter 19: Mobile and Collaborative Augmented Reality
2 Archaeological prospecting
3 Design approach
4 Magic platform
5 Conclusion
6 References
7 Acknowledgements
Chapter 20: Towards a Description of Information-seeking Tasks Contributing to the Design of Communications Objects and Services
2 Wap ergonomics
3 Objective characteristics of an information-seeking task
4 Experiment
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion
7 References
8 Glossary
Chapter 21: Making Context Explicit in Communicating Objects
2 Making context explicit
3 Challenges
4 Conclusion
5 References
Chapter 22: Dynamic Links for Change-sensitive Interaction
2 The context of the work
3 Dynamic links
4 Conclusions and future work
5 References
Acknowledgements
Chapter 23: Communicating Devices, Multimode Interfaces and Artistic Creation
2 To establish a creative dialogue between a dancer - actor and a system
3 Analysis of interfaces, behaviours and gestures of a dancer
4 Analyses of relational interactions
5 Analyses of semantic interpretations
6 Results
7 Conclusion
8 Bibliography
Chapter 24: Powering Communicating Objects
2 Classification of objects by use and practice
3 Energy needs
4 Selection of energy sources for objects
5 Some energy sources
6 Object autonomy management
7 Conclusion
8 References
9 Glossary
Conclusion - From Things That Connect to Ambient Communication
2 Processing, communication, physical interaction, human interaction: four dimensions of smart devices
3 Defining and categorising smart devices
4 A classification of smart-device-based services
5 A smart devices scenario
6 Conclusion
7 References
Index
Index_B
Index_C
Index_D
Index_E
Index_F
Index_G
Index_H
Index_I
Index_J-K
Index_L
Index_M
Index_N
Index_O
Index_P-Q
Index_R
Index_S
Index_T
Index_U
Index_V
Index_W-Z
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars