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EVENTMANAGER: Support for the Peripheral Awareness of Events

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Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 2000)

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EVENTMANAGER is a tool that supports peripheral awareness by ena- bling users to be notified when events of interest take place within their work- place environment. Our initial implementation of the tool allows users to speci- fy events based on people and their locations within the physical environment, e.g., the event of Joe entering his office. We describe the context of the envi- ronment in which the tool is used, the event specification language, the features embodied in the interfaces and some potential extensions for future versions of the tool.

Second author’s current address: theodore.anagnost@med.ge.com.

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  1. Center for Strategic Technology Research (CSTaR), Andersen Consulting, 3773 Willow Road, Northbrook, IL 60062, USA

    Joseph F. McCarthy & Theodore D. Anagnost

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  1. School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, Bounds Green Road, London, N11 2NQ, UK

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  2. Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe, Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 1, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

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McCarthy, J.F., Anagnost, T.D. (2000). EVENTMANAGER: Support for the Peripheral Awareness of Events. In: Thomas, P., Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1927. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39959-3_17

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