Paper Info
Title
Building and Operating Context-aware Services for Groups of Users.
Abstract
This paper presents a framework for providing context-aware services in public spaces, e.g., museums. The framework is unique to other existing context-aware systems in implementing services as mobile agents and supporting groups of users in addition to single users. It maintains a location model as containment relationships between digital representations, called virtual counterparts, corresponding to people, terminals, or spaces, according to their locations in the real world. When a visitor moves between exhibits in a museum, it dynamically deploys his/her service provider agents at computers close to the exhibits via virtual counterparts. When two visitors stand in front of an exhibit, service-provider agents are mutually executed or configured according to which of these the services are for. To demonstrate the utility and effectiveness of the system, we constructed location/user-aware visitor-guide services and experimented with them for two weeks in a public museum.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.procs.2011.07.040
Procedia Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Context-awareness,Group users,Location,Mobile agents
Context-aware services,World Wide Web,Computer science,Context awareness,Service provider,Multimedia,Location model,Visitor pattern
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5
1877-0509
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.52
9
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ichiro Satoh188296.32