The Conference Assistant: combining context-awareness with wearable computing

Author

Dey, Anind K. ; Salber, Daniel ; Abowd, Gregory D. ; Futakawa, Masayasu

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

18-19 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

28

Abstract

We describe the Conference Assistant, a prototype mobile, context-aware application that assists conference attendees. We discuss the strong relationship between context-awareness and wearable computing and apply this relationship in the Conference Assistant. The application uses a wide variety of contexts and enhances user interactions with both the environment and other users. We describe how the application is used and the context-aware architecture on which it is based.

Keywords

administrative data processing; microcomputer applications; mobile computing; portable computers; software architecture; Conference Assistant; conference attendees; context-aware architecture; mobile context-aware application; user interactions; wearable computing; Application software; Computer architecture; Context; Context-aware services; Educational institutions; Laboratories; Mobile computing; Prototypes; Wearable computers; Wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wearable Computers, 1999. Digest of Papers. The Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0428-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWC.1999.806639

Filename

806639