Activity-centered ubiquitous computing support to localized activities

• Autor(es): Pinto, Helder ; José, Rui
• Data: 2006
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/5322
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Ubiquitous computing; Activity-centered computing; Software frameworks; Human-computer interaction
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

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.