Context-aware mobile and ubiquitous computing for enhanced usability adaptive technologies and applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Stojanovic, Dragan, 1969-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Context-aware computing.; Mobile computing.; Mobile communication systems.; Context-aware adaptation; Database querying; Distributed context management; Framework for pervasive computing; Incorporating human factors; Infomobility systems; Leveraging semantic technologies; Mobile application contexts; Privacy automation; Social ambient intelligence; Semantic Web resources
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxix, 432 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-417) and index.
• ISBN: 9781605662916 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Advances in mobile computing, wireless communications, mobile positioning, and sensor technologies have given rise to a new class of context-aware mobile and ubiquitous applications. Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications provides thorough insights and significant research developments on mobile technologies and services. This significant reference book explains how users of such applications access intelligent and adaptable information services, maximizing convenience and minimizing intrusion.