Smart CAPs for Smart Its - Context Detection for Mobile Users. Florian Michahelles, Michael Samulowitz, In Third International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (MobileHCI), at IHM-HCI 2001, Lille, France, September 2001. [Poster, Draft, Journal]

Abstract: Context detection for mobile users plays a major role for enabling novel, human-centric interfaces. For this, we introduce a context detection scheme for disseminated, computer empowered sensors, referred to as Smart-Its [7]. Context-detection takes place without requiring any central point of control, and supports push as well as pull modes. Our solution is based on an in-network composition approach relying on so-called smart context-aware packets (sCAPs). sCAPs travel thru a sensor network governed by an enclosed retrieving plan, specifying which sensors to visit for gaining a specific piece of context informatio n. For enhanced flexibility, the retrieving plan itself may be dynamically altered in accordance to past sensor readings.

Bibtex Record

@InProceedings{scaps_mobilhci01,
  author =       {Florian Michahelles and Michael Samulowitz},
  title =        {{Smart CAPs for Smart Its - Context Detection for Mobile Users}},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices},
  year =         {2001},
  address =      {Lille, France},
  month =        {September},
  editor =       {Mark Dunlop and Stephen Brewster}
}