Communicating objects : developing technology for usable persuasive computing systems

This volume, which was produced under the aegis of French Telecom R&D, contains contributions from 60 specialist contributors, who attended a conference at Autrans in 2001.

Whilst containing state-of-the-art surveys of the theory and practice of network technology, these are done in the context of communicating objects.

This concept considers the different facets of work ranging from radio-frequency transmission and non fibre-optics to voice recognition devices and software infrastructures, which activate objects in the human environment.

The contents of this book attempt to answer the questions: how do objects communicate?

How are they used? What can they do, today and tomorrow?