Experiments on mobile context-aware instant messaging
CTS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Collaborative technologies and systems
Smart instant messenger in pervasive computing environments
GPC'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
Towards a model of interaction for mutual aware devices and everyday artifacts
UIC'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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The combination of real-time message delivery andpresence awareness has to lead the rapid rise inpopularity of Instant Messaging (IM) in recent years.The extension of IM to mobile ad-hoc networkscertainly offers considerable potential. However, thedynamic topology and decentralized nature of thesenetworks requires several major issues to beaddressed. Specifically, difficulties exist in providingan effective reliable service in the absence of acontinuously available server. We present here theDawn IM system, which takes a decentralizedapproach to bringing the functionality inherent infixed-network IM systems to an ad-hoc environment. Inaddition we discuss a test-bed implementation thatsupports collaboration between users equipped withhandheld devices.