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This collection of nineteen articles on ubiquitous reliance on digital appliances highlights currents scholarship investigating the use of portable interactive devices in a variety of business, academic and scientific situations. The volume is divided into sections loosely centered on RFID technologies, context awareness and sensor networks and individual papers address such topics as RFID in the health care industry, Bluetooth user positioning systems, sensor-based information systems, situated knowledge in context-aware computing and new approaches to capturing human information behaviors. Essays include abstracts, illustrations, tables, notes and bibliographies and a volume wide compilation of reading resources is provided. Contributors include academics from computer science and information technology fields from a variety of universities around the world. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)