ISWC 09: 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers
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T he 13th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) was held last September in Linz, Austria, the European Union’s selected European Cultural Capital for 2009. The city’s new Ars Electronica Center, which opened earlier in the year, provided an excellent venue for ISWC. It also collocated the symposium with the 2009 Ars Electronica Festival. Alois Ferscha and Gerfried Stocker cochaired ISWC 09. We were the technical program cochairs.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Pervasive Computing
دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010