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Internet appliance
About: Internet appliance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43571 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a self-administered survey, hosted on a dedicated website, was used as a data collection method and 1005 responses were received, and it was found that the period of Internet usage significantly influenced the decision to purchase via the Internet.
Abstract: This article focuses on the experience of the Internet user with regard to purchasing goods and services. A self-administered survey, hosted on a dedicated website, was used as a data collection method and 1005 responses were received. It was found that the period of Internet usage significantly influenced the decision to purchase via the Internet. Another finding was that the period of Internet usage significantly influenced whether those shopping on the Internet searched for, or considered searching for, product and service information online prior to purchasing from non-Internet-based sellers.
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09 Feb 2020TL;DR: This chapter describes the types of digital consumer devices that are emerging and how they interact with each other and are designed specifically to enable the management, exchange, and manipulation of information.
Abstract: This chapter describes the types of digital consumer devices that are emerging and how they interact with each other. The home product industry is bustling with new digital consumer devices. They are also called information appliances, Internet appliances, intelligent appliances, or iAppliances. Some of the more common digital consumer devices are audio players, digital cameras and camcorders, digital televisions (TVs), digital videocassette recorders (VCRs) or digital video recorders (DVR) or personal video recorders (PVR), DVD players, eBooks, email terminals, gaming consoles, Internet-enabled picture frames, mobile phones, NetTVs or iTV-enabled devices, robot animals, and screen phones or video phones. All these devices are made intelligent by embedded semiconductors and their connection to the Internet. They are lightweight and reliable, and provide special-purpose access to the Internet. Their advanced computational capabilities add more value and convenience when they are networked. Digital consumer devices cover hardware, software, and services, and are designed specifically to enable the management, exchange, and manipulation of information. They are enabled by technologies such as Internet convergence and integration, wired and wireless communications, software applications, semiconductors technology, personal computing, networking, and consumer electronics.
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24 Jun 2013
TL;DR: The results show that fragmentation can seriously degrade the performance of a typical IoT device to gateway communication modality, but also show that with proper design of data broadcast mechanisms, gateway-to-device communication can be maintained at high performance levels.
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a collection of technologies designed to interconnect physical devices with the Internet. Due to device resource constraints IoT connectivity requires the redesign of several basic Internet protocols. This paper studies the impact of packet fragmentation at the data link level on the end-to-end performance of some of these redesigned protocols. Our results show that fragmentation can seriously degrade the performance of a typical IoT device to gateway communication modality. On the other hand, our results also show that with proper design of data broadcast mechanisms, gateway-to-device communication can be maintained at high performance levels. These results can be used as a guide for IoT network engineers.
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23 Oct 2002
TL;DR: The developed home welfare and care services support system is easily operated by elderly persons and enables Home Helpers to save a significant amount of time and extra travel.
Abstract: Summary form only given. In Japan, Home Helpers provide home welfare and care services for the elderly, such as cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning, shopping, etc. We developed a web-based home service support system using wireless Internet mobile phones and Internet client computers with liquid crystal tablets. The liquid crystal tablet is used as an entry device for elderly persons' care requests. The client computer sends the requests to the server computer in the Home Helper central office, and then the server computer automatically transfers them to the Home Helper's mobile phone. The developed home welfare and care services support system is easily operated by elderly persons and enables Home Helpers to save a significant amount of time and extra travel.
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28 May 2012
TL;DR: The paper deals with a technology that makes data interpretation much easier for the users, Hyperlink comprised by unified GUI with the final goal of VRE (Virtual Reality Environment) interpretation.
Abstract: The speed of information technology development is ever increasing. The appropriate information can be easily provided for and often it can be visually presented. The access to relative information, documents, etc., takes advantage of Hyperlinks, often supported by the Internet of things.
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