An Ambient, Personalized, and Context-Sensitive Information System for Mobile Users

An Ambient, Personalized, and Context-Sensitive

Information System for Mobile Users

Ayse Göker Stuart Watt Murat Yakici

Ralf BierigSree Kanth Nuti Hannah Cumming

School of Computing The Robert Gordon University St. Andrew Street, Aberdeen

Scotland, UK

Hans I. Myrhaug

SINTEF ICT, N-7465 Trondheim Norway

Nik Whitehead

Faculty of Information Technology University of Akureyri Iceland

EUSAI 2004, November 8-10, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. 2004 ACM.

Outline

• Introduction

• Description of the demonstration

• System description

• Related work and discussion

Introduction

• Personalized and context-sensitive .

• Right situation and user .

• Access to and receiving .

• Ambient information experiences .

Description of the demonstration 1/4

• Interaction with the surroundings and information .

• Three cornerstones: 1. Context tag2. Service provider3. Mobile user

Description of the demonstration 2/4

• Pushed to or pulled from.

• Get more information .

• Search engines.

• vicinity of a tag.

Description of the demonstration 3/4

Description of the demonstration 4/4

System description 1/4

• Three main cornerstones .• Content bases.• User context middleware.• Information search.• Mobile clients on the handhelds.• Context tags in the surroundings.

System description 2/4

System description 3/4

• Content bases– Server or cloud

• User context middleware– Retrieving/highlighting content

• Information search– Context-aware

System description 4/4

• Information zone– Same content at the same time

• Mobile clients on the handhelds– Information search and distribution mechanisms

• Context tags in the surroundings– various places to provide information

Related work and discussion• Vision

• Scenario

• Information and retrieval

• Disappearing computer, sensor and wireless

• Access information anywhere, anytime