Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts

@incollection{citeulike:1596416, abstract = {Ubiquitous computing is associated with a vision of everything being connected to everything. However, for successful applications to emerge, it will not be the quantity but the quality and usefulness of connections that will matter. Our concern is how qualitative relations and more selective connections can be established between smart artefacts, and how users can retain control over artefact interconnection. We propose context proximity for selective artefact communication, using the context of artefacts for matchmaking. We further suggest to empower users with simple but effective means to impose the same context on a number of artefacts. To prove our point we have implementedSmart-Its Friends , small embedded devices that become connected when a user holds them together and shakes them.}, author = {Holmquist, Lars E. and Mattern, Friedemann and Schiele, Bernt and Alahuhta, Petteri and Beigl, Michael and Gellersen, Hans-W }, citeulike-article-id = {1596416}, journal = {Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing: Third International Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2001, Proceedings}, keywords = {security, sensornetwork}, pages = {116+}, posted-at = {2008-01-31 14:14:27}, priority = {0}, title = {Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/tf9vq9jydcqef85c }, year = {2001} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1596416 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1596416 TI - Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts JF - Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing: Third International Conference Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2001, Proceedings SP - 116 N2 - Ubiquitous computing is associated with a vision of everything being connected to everything. However, for successful applications to emerge, it will not be the quantity but the quality and usefulness of connections that will matter. Our concern is how qualitative relations and more selective connections can be established between smart artefacts, and how users can retain control over artefact interconnection. We propose context proximity for selective artefact communication, using the context of artefacts for matchmaking. We further suggest to empower users with simple but effective means to impose the same context on a number of artefacts. To prove our point we have implementedSmart-Its Friends , small embedded devices that become connected when a user holds them together and shakes them. KW - security KW - sensornetwork AU - Holmquist, Lars AU - Mattern, Friedemann AU - Schiele, Bernt AU - Alahuhta, Petteri AU - Beigl, Michael AU - Gellersen, Hans-W PY - 2001/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/tf9vq9jydcqef85c ER -