Sensor-enhanced mobile web clients: an XForms approach

  • Authors:
  • John Barton;Tim Kindberg;Hui Dai;Nissanka B. Priyantha;Fahd Al-bin-ali

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA;Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper describes methods for service selection and service access for mobile, sensor-enhanced web clients such as wireless cameras or wireless PDAs with sensor devices attached. The clients announce their data-creating capabilities in "Produce" headers sent to servers; servers respond with forms that match these capabilities. Clients fill in these forms with sensor data as well as text or file data. The resultant system enables clients to access dynamically discovered services spontaneously, as their users engage in everyday nomadic activities.