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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI)
Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien
Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at
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o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alois Ferscha
Department of Computer Science, Johannes Kepler Universität of Linz
"DIGITAL AURA": TOWARDS AD-HOC INTERACTION IN CONTEXT
Services delivered through pervasive computing environments demand
to be related to "context", particularly to the person, the time and
the place of their use.
The aim for seamless service provision to anyone (personalized
services), at any place (location based services) and at any time
(time dependent services) has brought the issues of software framework
design and middleware to a new discussion: it is expected that
context-aware services will evolve, enabled by wirelessly ad-hoc
networked, autonomous special purpose computing devices (i.e. "smart
things"), providing largely invisible support for tasks performed by
users. It is further expected that services with explicit user input
and output will be replaced by a computing landscape sensing the
physical world via a huge variety of electrical, magnetic, optical,
etc. sensors, and controlling it via a manifold of actuators.
Interaction among persons, places and things in the pervasive
computing environment will most likely follow the principles of P2P
computing, rather than be centralized services.
The idea of a "Digital Aura" is to equip persons and real world
objects with digital nimbus information, and P2P concepts to implement
context sensitive, situative, implicit and non-distracting modes and
styles of interaction.
In this presentation I will explore the software engineering issues,
challenges and enabling technologies associated with the provision of
context aware services, and will demonstrate digital aura "in
operation".
Zeit: Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2002, 18:30 Uhr pktl.
Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence
Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
o.Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl