Evaluation of the Technology Agnostic Service Creation Approach

The current computing and communication services provide convenience and functionality. The creation of these services is however not an easy task. Service development is still mainly technical oriented, where service creation tools are meant for serving and assisting the professional developers. In other words, service creation is not seen as a task for end-users. In our research, we wish to enable service creation for the end-users. This is achieved by introducing the technology agnostic approach into the process. In this paper, we present the conceptual architecture as the proposed solution. Prototype tools were designed and implemented as proof of concept. An evaluation event was held to obtain user feedback on the approach and the prototype tools. This paper presents and discusses the outcome of the evaluation

Implementation of a User-Centric Context-Aware Playground

Since the introduction of the ubiquitous computing vision by Mark Weiser, we observed quite some research from various R&D projects as well as groups that focused on different aspects in the area of context-awareness. However, there is yet no result which we can easily apply in a real environment. The context-aware service development and deployment process seldom focused on reusability and realistic implementation issues. We believe these issues can be tackled by proposing a complete context-aware system package. In this package both developers and users will be supported. This idea is realised at our department as a context-aware playground. This paper explains the observation on current work and the shortcomings, and proposes how the context-aware playground approach can be a solution