Published in IEEE Xplore: In proceeding of: International Conference on Future Generation Communication, At London, UK
Authors
Bourimi, M.;
Tesoriero, R.;
Kesdogan, D.;
Heupel, M.
Abstract
Location is the fey factor in defining context information of today’s mobile applications and services. As a matter of fact, location is increasingly used to stimulate collaboration in various ways and location-aware applications experienced a wide-spread usage. However, existing mobile services, even those which are Web enabled, do not support end-user tailorability. For example, at the level of defining community-specific points of interest of any type on both user interface (UI) and server-side level. In this paper, we identify the need for supporting such end-user tailorability based on performed analysis of various use cases related to collaborative location-based scenarios in mobile settings. We present a generic framework for collaborative mobile applications and services that support privacy respecting locationbased scenarios. We demonstrate this with the means of an iOS based prototype. Our prototype allows different communities to define their own points of interests in a generic manner (at- runtime) by simultaneously supporting group collaboration functionality (e.g., communication, awareness, etc.). The distributed architecture can also be tailored according to privacy needs
Additional Details
- Conference Location : London
- Print ISBN:978-1-4673-5859-0
- INSPEC Accession Number:13370709
- Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/FGCT.2012.6476577