Pervasive systems and ubiquitous computing / A. Genco and S. Sorce.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Augmented Reality and Virtual World
1 From virtual reality to augmented reality
2 AR technologies
3 AR and VW projects

Chapter 3 Human computer interaction
1 Introduction
2 Implicit and explicit HCI
3 Adaptive and intelligent HCI technologies and methodologies
4 Input/output devices
5 Usability
6 Portability
7 Conclusions

Chapter 4 Disappearing hardware
1 Introduction
2 Invisibility, a key paradigm for ubiquitous systems
3 Evolving hardware
4 Building ubiquitous systems
5 Invisibility: problems and limits
6 Conclusions

Chapter 5 Wireless technologies for pervasive systems
1 Wireless data transmission
2 Bluetooth
3 Wi-Fi
4 IrDA
5 HomeRF
etc

Chapter 6 Positioning in pervasive systems
1 Introduction
2 position detection techniques
3 Properties and features of positioning systems
4 Positioning system

Chapter 7 Security in ubiquitous computing
1 Introduction
2 Security protocols
3 Encryption
4 Bluetooth architecture
5 Authentication systems
etc

Chapter 8 Service discovery
1 Introduction
2 Disk and server scheduling algorithms
3 Context-awareness

Includes bibliographical references and index.