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A Taxonomy of Physical Contextual Sensors

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Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques (HCI 2007)

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In this article, we propose to introduce taxonomy of physical contextual sensors. Indeed, applications are now becoming more and more interactive, mobile and pervasive in which context is a big issue. Knowledge from the user and context in which user interacts is crucial in the design. Then, our objective is to help designers to choose best sensors to use from context thy want to collect. We extended and refined taxonomy of context by associating sensors to this taxonomy.

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  1. IRIT UMR CNRS, Université Paul Sabatier, 118, Route de Narbonne – Toulouse Cedex 4,  

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Truillet, P. (2007). A Taxonomy of Physical Contextual Sensors. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques. HCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4551. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_108

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