Name
Title | ||
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The Resource Framework for Mobile Applications: Enabling Collaboration Between Mobile Users |
Abstract | ||
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Mobile devices are getting more and more interesting for several kinds of field workers such as sales representatives or maintenance engineers. When in the field, mobile users often want to collaborate with other mobile users or with stationary colleagues at home. Most established collaboration concepts are designed for stationary scenarios and often do not sufficiently support mobility. Mobile users are only weakly connected to the communication infrastructure by wireless networks. Small mobile devices like PDAs often do not have sufficient computational power to handle effortful tasks to coordinate and synchronize users. They have for example very limited user interface capabilities and reduced storage capacity. In addition, mobile devices are subject to other usage paradigms like stationary computers and often turned on and off during a session. In this paper, we introduce a framework for mobile collaborative applications based on so-called resources. The resource framework leads to a straightforward functional decomposition of the overall application. Our platform Pocket DreamTeam provides a runtime infrastructure for application based on resources. We demonstrate the resource concept with the help of two applications built on top of the Pocket DreamTeam platform. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2003 | ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS V | mobile applications,collaborative applications,application framework,development platform |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Mobile technology,Mobile computing,Mobile search,Computer science,Mobile station,Mobile business development,Mobile database,Human–computer interaction,Mobile deep linking,Mobile Web | Conference | 3 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.39 | 15 | 1 |