P2P social networking for the rest of US
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Service migration protocol for NFC links
EUNICE'10 Proceedings of the 16th EUNICE/IFIP WG 6.6 conference on Networked services and applications: engineering, control and management
A near field communication-driven home automation framework
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Towards interactive smart spaces
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Context Awareness
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The fusion of interaction and discovery technologies can facilitate easy, intuitive and impromptu access to networked entities by users without the need for significant administrative overhead. Traditional service discovery methods fail to meet the demands placed by such environments due to mobility, intermittent connectivity, complex configuration and small user interfaces. This paper presents n NFC-enhanced middleware architecture that enables a non-expert user to intuitively discover and use new services through a simple touch gesture. The proposed method eliminates the need for multiple manual steps and allows the user to control the ingress of devices/services in the environment into the discovery process. A prototype implementation is presented showcasing attachment to network access points, launching of URLs and discovery and interaction with UPnP devices.