Activity-centered ubiquitous computing support to localized activities

• Author(s): Pinto, Helder ; José, Rui
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5322
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Ubiquitous computing; Activity-centered computing; Software frameworks; Human-computer interaction
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

This paper presents ActivitySpot, a ubiquitous computing framework for supporting localized activities, i.e., activities strongly associated to a specific physical environment, performed by occasional visitors. The ActivitySpot framework implements an activity-centered approach to ubiquitous computing, by defining a conceptual model inspired by Activity Theory and implementing a software infrastructure derived from this conceptual model. ActivitySpot has been evaluated by experiments run at different public spaces and results demonstrate the framework’s suitability to the targeted type of environment.