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Communicating with Smart Objects: Developing Technology for Usable Pervasive Computing Systems
by Claude Kintzig, Gerard Poulain, Gilles Privat and Pierre-Noel Favennec (eds)	ISBN:1903996368
Kogan Page © 2003
This text covers the role of smart devices in communication, and includes software infrastructure for smart devices, network technologies for smart objects, and evolution of smart devices.

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Communicating with Smart Objects
Introduction”The Role of Smart Devices in Communication
Part 1 - Interaction
Chapter 1	-	New Distributed and Active Tools and Narrative Activities
Chapter 2	-	Smart Houses and Dependent People”Acceptability, Solvency and International Tendencies
Chapter 3	-	Towards Multimodal Human-computer Dialogue by Intelligent Agents
Chapter 4	-	Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Artefacts
Chapter 5	-	The Voice as a Means of Humanising Man-machine Interfaces
Part 2 - Software Infrastructure for Smart Devices/Ambient Intelligence
Chapter 6	-	Introduction to a Middleware Framework
Chapter 7	-	A Model and Software Architecture for Location-management in Smart Devices/Ambient Communication Environments
Chapter 8	-	A Software Infrastructure for Distributed Applications on Mobile Physical Objects
Chapter 9	-	Integrating a Multimedia Player in a Network of Communicating Objects
Chapter 10	-	Reverse Localisation
Part 3 - Networking Technologies for Smart Objects
Chapter 11	-	Wireless Techniques and Smart Devices
Chapter 12	-	Wireless Local Area Networks
Chapter 13	-	Radio Links in the Millimeter Wave Band
Chapter 14	-	Propagation of Radio Waves Inside and Outside Buildings
Chapter 15	-	Ad-Hoc Networks
Chapter 16	-	INDEED”High Rate Infrared Communications in the "Indoor" Context
Chapter 17	-	Artificial Materials for Protected Communications
Chapter 18	-	Free-space Optical Communication Links
Part 4 - Evolution of Smart Devices
Chapter 19	-	Mobile and Collaborative Augmented Reality
Chapter 20	-	Towards a Description of Information-seeking Tasks Contributing to the Design of Communications Objects and Services
Chapter 21	-	Making Context Explicit in Communicating Objects
Chapter 22	-	Dynamic Links for Change-sensitive Interaction
Chapter 23	-	Communicating Devices, Multimode Interfaces and Artistic Creation
Chapter 24	-	Powering Communicating Objects
Conclusion”From "Things That Connect" to "Ambient Communication"
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars