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Smart Playing Cards: A Ubiquitous Computing Game

Overview Recent technological advances allow for turning parts of everyday environment into so-called smart environments, which augment the physical environment with useful IT functionality in an unobtrusive way, without destroying the usual ?look and feel?. This paper presents the ?Smart Playing Cards? application, a ubiquitous computing game that augments a classical card game with information-technological functionality by attaching RFID tags to the cards. It also mentions the requirements such an application makes on a supporting software infrastructure for ubiquitous computing.

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Publisher	ETH Zurich	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	July 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications

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