Portholes: supporting awareness in a distributed work group
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Media spaces: bringing people together in a video, audio, and computing environment
Communications of the ACM
Techniques for addressing fundamental privacy and disruption tradeoffs in awareness support systems
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
TeleNotes: managing lightweight interactions in the desktop
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
AROMA: abstract representation of presence supporting mutual awareness
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Design for individuals, design for groups: tradeoffs between power and workspace awareness
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Interaction and outeraction: instant messaging in action
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
ConNexus to awarenex: extending awareness to mobile users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ConChat: A Context-Aware Chat Program
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Presence, Location, and Instant Messaging in a Context-Aware Application Framework
MDM '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
CybreMinder: A Context-Aware System for Supporting Reminders
HUC '00 Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Instant Messaging & Presence Management in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
PERCOMW '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Presence versus availability: the design and evaluation of a context-aware communication client
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
GPS-based location extraction and presence management for mobile instant messenger
EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Embedded and ubiquitous computing
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In this paper, we explore the potential of extrapolating the instant messaging paradigm into pervasive computing environments. Under this vision, an instant messenger is regarded as a unified interface for all communications among human, software services and various devices. To meet the demands, we introduce a novel instant messenger system i.e., Smart Instant Messenger, with original features of context-aware presence management, dynamic grouping, and resource buddy services. This system is built atop a context-aware supporting middleware, which adopts an ontology-based context model and handles the chore of retrieving and managing context information. Jabber protocol is exploited as the underlying message exchange format for extensibility. The system prototype is implemented and evaluated with respect to the responsiveness of queries and memory usage of the middleware.