Title :
Supporting face to face collaboration through dynamic arrays of mobile devices
Author :
Castro, MaÌrcio ; Mendoza, Sergio
Author_Institution :
Dept. de Comput., CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
fDate :
Sept. 29 2014-Oct. 3 2014
Abstract :
Nowadays, it is difficult to find applications for mobile devices that allow co-located users to carry out transitions between individual and collaborative work modes. In fact, most of the single-user applications cannot be used to work with others, and vice-versa. The main contribution of this work is the design and implementation of a development support that allows programmers to extend their applications with functions to accomplish such work mode transitions, by relying on coupling and decoupling gestures on heterogeneous mobile devices to respectively do and undo irregular arrays of such devices. The proposed development support has been implemented for Android platforms following a P2P architecture.
Keywords :
mobile computing; peer-to-peer computing; smart phones; Android platforms; P2P architecture; development support; face to face collaboration; mobile device arrays; Broadcasting; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Couplings; IP networks; Smart phones; arrays of mobile devices; face-to-face interaction; plastic user interfaces; transitions between individual and collaborative work modes;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE), 2014 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Campeche
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-6228-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICEEE.2014.6978320