research-article

Free access

Context-aware applications using personal sensors

Authors:

Julien Subercaze,

Ngoc Minh Dang,

Ken SasakiAuthors Info & Claims

BodyNets '07: Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks

Article No.: 19, Pages 1 - 5

Published: 11 June 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Context-aware applications require the development of convenient frameworks. Effective mobility requires that mobile applications can integrate new sensors or new types of information. This is not possible within traditional applications, because a re-design phase is necessary. We describe in this article an agent-based framework supporting sensors' data fusion and context-aware information exchanges. An ontology-based representation of data is used. Exchanges in-between components are carried out within so-called virtual knowledge communities. An application has been designed within this framework ('Wake me up', taking place in the metro). It makes use of wearable sensor, transmitters and cell phones. The wearable sensor is used to determine the user state. Transmitters provide geographical information, and cell phones are used as personal assistants.

References

[1]

Jade - java agent development framework. http://jade.tilab.com.

[2]

Protégé. http://protege.stanford.edu/.

[3]

ACL-FIPA. Fipa Personal Assistant Specification (2000). FIPA, http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00083/XC00083B.html.

[4]

G. Biegel and V. Cahill. A framework for developing mobile, context-aware applications. percom, 00:361, 2004.

Digital Library

[5]

H. Chen, S. Tolia, C. Sayers, T. W. Finin, and A. Joshi. Creating context-aware software agents. In W. Truszkowski, C. Rouff, and M. G. Hinchey, editors, WRAC, volume 2564 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 186--200. Springer, 2002.

[6]

H. W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, and M. Beigl. Multi-sensor context-awareness in mobile devices and smart artifacts. Mob. Netw. Appl., 7(5):341--351, 2002.

Digital Library

[7]

K. Henricksen and J. Indulska. A software engineering framework for context-aware pervasive computing. percom, 00:77, 2004.

Digital Library

[8]

P. Maret, M. Hammond, and J. Calmet. Virtual knowledge communities for corporate knowledge issues. In ESAW, pages 33--44, 2004.

Digital Library

[9]

B. Miñano, I. Lera, P. P. Sancho, C. Juiz, and R. Puigjaner. Context-broker service architecture for amI systems through mobile-agents and ontologies as middleware. In G. Min, B. D. Martino, L. T. Yang, M. Guo, and G. Rünger, editors, ISPA Workshops, volume 4331 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 907--916. Springer, 2006.

Digital Library

[10]

J. Patel, W. T. L. Teacy, N. R. Jennings, M. Luck, S. Chalmers, N. Oren, T. J. Norman, A. D. Preece, P. M. D. Gray, G. Shercliff, P. J. Stockreisser, J. Shao, W. A. Gray, N. J. Fiddian, and S. Thompson. Conoise-g: agent-based virtual organisations. In AAMAS, pages 1459--1460, 2006.

Digital Library

[11]

S. Pinyapong and T. Kato. Query processing algorithms for time, place, purpose and personal profile sensitive mobile recommendation. In CW '04: Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Cyberworlds (CW'04), pages 423--430, Washington, DC, USA, 2004. IEEE Computer Society.

Digital Library

[12]

D. Salber and G. Abowd. The design and use of a generic context server. Technical report, 1998. Also available as http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fce/contexttoolkit/pubs/pui98.pdf.

[13]

M. L. Sbodio and W. Thronicke. A systematic approach for the design of context-aware components.

[14]

T. Schoberth and G. Schrott. Virtual communities. Wirtschaftsinformatik, 43(5):517--519, 2001.

[15]

R. Sharma, V. Pavlovic, and T. Huang. Toward multimodal human-computer interface. Proceedings of the IEEE, 86(5):853--869, May 1998.

[16]

C. Sugimoto, M. Tsuji, G. Lopez, H. Hosaka, K. Sasaki, T. Hirota, and S. Tatsuta. Development of a behavior recognition system using wireless wearable information devices. pages 1--5, 2006.

Cited By

Martí EGarcía JMolina J(2011)Context-awareness at the service of sensor fusion systemsProceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial neural networks conference on Advances in computational intelligence - Volume Part II10.5555/2023332.2023426(653-660)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2023332.2023426
Subercaze JMaret PAkerkar R(2011)Virtual knowledge communities for semantic agentsProceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics10.1145/1988688.1988730(1-9)Online publication date: 25-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1988688.1988730

Recommendations

Context Aware Identity Management Using Smart Phones
BWCCA '13: Proceedings of the 2013 Eighth International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications

Cell phones are personal devices that are seldom used by more than one individual. Today's smart phone not only serves as the key computing and communication mobile device of choice, but it also comes with a rich set of embedded sensors. In other words, ...
Context-aware middleware support for component based applications in pervasive computing
APPT'07: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advanced parallel processing technologies

Ubiquitous computing allows application developers to build a large and complex distributed system that can transform physical spaces into computationally active and intelligent environments. Ubiquitous applications need a middleware that can detect and ...
A semantic P2P framework for building context-aware applications in multiple smart spaces
EUC'07: Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Embedded and ubiquitous computing

Context information has emerged as an important resource to enable autonomy and flexibility of ubiquitous applications. The widespread use of context information necessitates an efficient lookup service in a wide-area network over multiple smart spaces. ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image Guide Proceedings

BodyNets '07: Proceedings of the ICST 2nd international conference on Body area networks

June 2007

143 pages

ISBN:9789630621939

General Chair:
Romano Fantacci
University of Florence, Italy

Sponsors

Create-Net
ICST
AICT

Publisher

ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)

Brussels, Belgium

Publication History

Published: 11 June 2007

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

2
Total Citations
View Citations
102
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)16
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)6

Reflects downloads up to 10 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Martí EGarcía JMolina J(2011)Context-awareness at the service of sensor fusion systemsProceedings of the 11th international conference on Artificial neural networks conference on Advances in computational intelligence - Volume Part II10.5555/2023332.2023426(653-660)Online publication date: 8-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2023332.2023426
Subercaze JMaret PAkerkar R(2011)Virtual knowledge communities for semantic agentsProceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics10.1145/1988688.1988730(1-9)Online publication date: 25-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1988688.1988730

View Options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents