5 research outputs found
“It matters if you just don't give up.”
No full textProf. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. has been an invaluable source of inspiration ever since we met in early 1996, when I was pioneering the first ‘Voice over IP ’ services. I would like to express my deep gratitude to my advisor Professor Maguire, who’s foresight, encouragement, enthusiasm, and inspiration set an example for my research, and his tireless support and advice helped me to start asking the real questions, and in successive projects produce step-by-step proof of the feasibility of mobile multimedia on wireless Internet and its potential for user-centric communication. I was also very fortunate to have Dr. Mark T. Smith of HP-labs as my second advisor for my research. Mark generously shared his views and advice concerning how to look upon services from a consumer perspective, which I then could contrast to the telecom mindset in the ‘mobile valley ’ of north Stockholm. I also thank the late Tech.Lic. Anders Carlsson- the CEO of Ellemtel until his early death in 1997, whose leadership inspired us to find new ways of communication- for preparing the ground for this research. I would also like to recognize the support of my management, Aleksander Marlevi (in 1998 the vice-CEO of Ellemtel where this thesis work began), Håkan Eriksson (head of Ericsson Research, where this thesis work was completed in 2001), and in particular Rolf Leidhammar (director of Applications & Software research) fo
Attaching Context-Aware Services to (Moving) Locations
No full textAbstract — this paper describes novel support for attaching context-aware services to (possibly moving) physical locations or objects (GeoBots). The support enables context-aware user interaction by utilizing context information from the user, network, and sensors; as well as automated use of available wireless and mobile infrastructure relative to what the application tries to accomplish so as to minimize exposing such decisions to the user. We present our results from using GeoBots and examine provisioning of smart connectivity and mixed-reality services mediated by GeoBots in our prototype. Index Terms — adaptive systems, context-aware computing, mobile communication, and personal services. I
