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Volume 12 , Issue 4 (July + August 2005) table of contents
Ambient intelligence: exploring our living environment

DEPARTMENT: Fresh table of contents

Pages: 14 - 19

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Donald A. Norman

Nielsen Norman Group

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 34, Downloads (12 Months): 379, Citation Count: 16

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CITED BY 17

	Donald A. Norman, Interaction design is still an art form.: ergonomics is real engineering, interactions, v.13 n.1, January + February 2006
	Mads Bødker , Janni Nielsen, Vision labs: seeing UCD as a relational practice, Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, December 08-12, 2008, Cairns, Australia
	Donald A. Norman, Logic versus usage: the case for activity-centered design, interactions, v.13 n.6, November + December 2006
	V. Javier Traver, Can user-centered interface design be applied to education?, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.39 n.2, June 2007
	Eric Schweikardt, SUSTAINABLY OURS User centered is off center, interactions, v.16 n.3, May + June 2009
	Mark Detweiler, Managing UCD within agile projects, interactions, v.14 n.3, May + June 2007
	Beryl Plimmer , Mark Apperley, Making paperless work, Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI New Zealand chapter's international conference on Computer-human interaction: design centered HCI, p.1-8, July 02-04, 2007, Hamilton, New Zealand
	Umer Farooq , Thomas G. Kannampallil , Yang Song , Craig H. Ganoe , John M. Carroll , Lee Giles, Evaluating tagging behavior in social bookmarking systems: metrics and design heuristics, Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM conference on Supporting group work, November 04-07, 2007, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
	Matti Tedre, What should be automated?: The fundamental question underlying human-centered computing, Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Human-centered multimedia, October 27-27, 2006, Santa Barbara, California, USA
	Maria Francesca Costabile , Antonio Piccinno , Daniela Fogli , Andrea Marcante, Supporting interaction and co-evolution of users and systems, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, May 23-26, 2006, Venezia, Italy
	Maja Pantic , Nicu Sebe , Jeffrey F. Cohn , Thomas Huang, Affective multimodal human-computer interaction, Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, November 06-11, 2005, Hilton, Singapore
	Thomas Memmel , Fredrik Gundelsweiler , Harald Reiterer, Agile human-centered software engineering, Proceedings of the 21st British CHI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2007: People and Computers XXI: HCI...but not as we know it, September 03-07, 2007, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom
	Pei-Ju Liu , James M. Laffey , Karen R. Cox, Operationalization of technology use and cooperation in CSCW, Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, November 08-12, 2008, San Diego, CA, USA
	Lorna Uden , Petri Helo, Designing mobile interfaces using activity theory, International Journal of Mobile Communications, v.6 n.5, p.616-632, July 2008
	Maja Pantic , Alex Pentland , Anton Nijholt , Thomas Huang, Human computing and machine understanding of human behavior: a survey, Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Multimodal interfaces, November 02-04, 2006, Banff, Alberta, Canada
	Turkka Keinonen, User-centered design and fundamental need, Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges, October 20-22, 2008, Lund, Sweden
	Pippin Barr , James Noble , Robert Biddle, Video game values: Human-computer interaction and games, Interacting with Computers, v.19 n.2, p.180-195, March, 2007

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.0 General

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