Cooperation and Ubiquitous Computing: an Architecture Towards their Integration

  • Authors:
  • Federico Cabitza;Marco P. Locatelli;Carla Simone

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milano-Bicocca, {cabitza, locatelli, simone}@disco.unimib.it;University of Milano-Bicocca, {cabitza, locatelli, simone}@disco.unimib.it;University of Milano-Bicocca, {cabitza, locatelli, simone}@disco.unimib.it

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Cooperative Systems Design: Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations -- Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The paper discusses the relations between Ubiquitous Computing (UC) and cooperation pointing to two reference scenarios. UC technologies are still in a early stage: however, it is possible to envisage an evolution that makes smart objects pervasive in work settings. Under the hypothesis that these objects are likely to have very a specialized functionality, the smart environment has to possess distributed inferential capabilities to complement them toward an adaptive support to both individual and collaborative behaviors. CASMAS is a model informing an architecture to design collaborative UC environments: it combines inference capabilities with the management of contextual information that is modulated according to the structure of physical and logical spaces.