Open AccessMobility, Context and Cloud
Author(s) -
TorMorten Grønli,
Jarle Hansen,
Gheorghita Ghinea
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of interactive mobile technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1865-7923
DOI - 10.3991/ijim.v6i2.1912
Subject(s) - cloud computing , computer science , android (operating system) , mobile device , context (archaeology) , context awareness , world wide web , cloud server , mobile computing , human–computer interaction , domain (mathematical analysis) , multimedia , operating system , paleontology , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , phone , biology
In this paper we pursue the context-aware paradigm in a distributed mobile environment. Context-awareness plays a significant role in the domain of implicit human computer interaction and we present an intelligent context-aware meeting room application. The distributed mobile application consists of multiple mobile operating system clients, a Google Android based presenter that, through proximity technology, communicates with a server in the meeting room, and a Google Cloud backend server. Over 40 users have evaluated the application. Results show that the context aware meeting room was well received by users who displayed a strong positive bias towards cloud integration and, in particular, automatic meeting-note push. We conclude that our context-aware meeting assistant can provide valuable assistance to end users and that there is promise for such use of heterogeneous mobile context-aware platforms