A visual framework for deploying and managing context-aware services

  • Authors:
  • Ichiro Satoh

  • Affiliations:
  • National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • GPC'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Advances in grid and pervasive computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A framework for managing pervasive computing is presented. It enables end-users to easily and naturally build visual interfaces for monitoring and customizing context-aware services. It is built on an exiting a symbolic location model to represent the containment relationships between physical entities, computing devices, and places. It supports a compound document framework for visualizing and customizing the model. It provides physical entities, places, computing devices, and services in smart spaces with visual components to annotate and control them and to dynamically assemble visual components into a visual interface for managing the spaces. It can visualize and configure the spatial structure of physical entities and places and the status and attributes of computing devices and services, e.g., the location in which context-aware services are available. By using the framework, end-users can monitor and customize pervasive computing environments by viewing and editing documents.