Facilitating nomadic interaction through a self-managed area-based support

• Autores: Víctor Gómez, Sonia Mendoza, Kimberly García, Dominique Decouchant
• Localización: ECORFAN Journal-Spain, ISSN 2444-3204, Vol. 2, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 161-179
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Ubiquitous computing integrates network supports (from small sensors to powerful devices) into the people’s working and domestic environments, which can be organized in self-managed areas. In this context, a selfmanaged area should provide useful information about the state of daily life objects (e.g., power failure of a refrigerator) without needing user intervention. Service discovery systems are essential to achieve this sophistication as they enable computing services to discover, configure and communicate with others, in order to facilitate the user’s tasks. Although the solutions proposed by these systems cannot be easily reused in other contexts (e.g., support for human collaboration) their different solution approaches provide useful reference points for the design of future discovery systems. In this paper, we describe a service discovery system called SEDINU (SErvice DIscovery for Nomadic Users), which provides a computational and communicational support for facilitating: 1) interaction between a nomadic user and the services provided by the current area where he is located, and 2) collaboration between nomadic users located in such an area. These kinds of interactions depend on a specific context defined in terms of users’ roles, location and goals. The proposed system allows a nomadic user: 1) to select and execute a service as many times as he needs; 2) to interact and collaborate with other nomadic users; 3) to use proactive applications, in order to easily interact with the services offered by the current selfmanaged area, e.g., to gather information required by an area, such as user identification and profile; 4) to create ad-hoc networks within the current area, with the aim of transferring relevant information between nomadic users and organization employees, e.g., e-vouchers and equipment delivery approva