Activity-Based support for mobility and collaboration in ubiquitous computing

Authors:
Jakob E. Bardram
Affiliations:
Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus N, Denmark
Venue:
UMICS'04 Proceedings of the Second CAiSE conference on Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper presents the design philosophy of activity-based computing (ABC), which addresses mobility and cooperation in human work activities. Furthermore, it presents the ABC Framework, which is a ubiquitous computing infrastructure supporting activity-based computing. The idea of activity-based computing and the aim of the ABC framework is to: (i) support human activity by managing its collection of work tasks on a computer, (ii) support mobility by porting activities across heterogeneous computing environments, (iii) support asynchronous collaboration by allowing several people to participate in an activity, and (iv) support synchronous, real-time collaboration by enabling ’desktop conferencing’ by sharing the activity across several clients. During a period of two years our framework has been co-designed and evaluated in close cooperation with a range of clinicians in a hospital.