Enabling location-based applications

Authors : Chatschik Bisdikian , Jim Christensen , John Davis , II , Maria R. Ebling , + 5 , Guerney Hunt , William Jerome , + 3 , Hui Lei , Stéphane Maes , Daby Sow (Less) Authors Info & Claims

Pages 38 - 42 Published : 21 July 2001 Publication History 20 citation 1,367 Downloads Total Citations 20 Total Downloads 1,367 Last 12 Months 3 Last 6 weeks 1 Get Citation Alerts

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Abstract

We identify a number of factors that may hinder the commercial success of location-based applications: the concern of privacy, the need to consider context beyond location, the presence of voluminous resources, and the constrained interfaces available on mobile devices. We describe an end-to-end system architecture with integrated support to address these issues. In particular, the architecture includes a Secure Context Service that provides broad context information to applications and allows people to flexibly control the release of their private information, an Intelligent Service Discovery Service that allows for personalized selection of physical and virtual services, and a multi-modal interaction mechanism that enables users to exploit multiple synchronized access channels to interact with an application and to switch among channels at any time. Our goals are to improve user experience, to reduce user distraction and to facilitate awareness of the physical world.

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