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In this paper, we propose a mobile user interface named personal companion which enables selection and interaction of u-services based on context of user. Personal companion selects u-services from a list of discovered services, supports camera-based selection with embedded marker and personalizes UI of the selected service in ubiquitous computing environment. In order to verify its usefulness, we implemented personal companion on PDA and UMPC platform and deployed into smart home testbed for selecting and interacting with u-services. The proposed personal companion is expected to play a vital role in ubiquitous computing environment by bridging users and u-services.
This research is supported by the UCN Project, the MIC 21st Century Frontier R&D Program in Korea.
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Yoon, H., Kim, H., Woo, W. (2007). Personal Companion: Personalized User Interface for U-Service Discovery, Selection and Interaction. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4555. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73281-5_115
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