Toward a cooperative programming framework for context-aware applications
Personal and Ubiquitous ComputingPublished 5 August 2010
Bin Guo, Daqing Zhang, Michita Imai
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Three corresponding programming modes are elaborated by showing how a context-aware game has been developed with the support of the OPEN framework, and the usability of the system is validated through an initial user study.
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