ActivitySpot: engaging, activity-centered experiences for occasional visitors (2008)
Abstract. This paper presents the concepts, implementation details, and evaluation objectives of ActivitySpot, an infrastructure and toolkit aiming at supporting localized activities performed by...
Tese de doutoramento em Tecnologias e Sistemas de Informação (ramo de conhecimento em Sistemas de Computação e Comunicações)
Integrating local services and applications into external user home environments (2008)
Abstract. Users moving between different ubiquitous computing environments should be able to take a full profit of the resources existent there, if their home environment (e.g. a mobile portal) could...
An activity-centered ubiquitous computing framework for public spaces (2007)
This paper presents ActivitySpot, a ubiquitous computing framework for supporting localized activities, i.e., activities strongly associated to a specific physical environment, performed by...
Pinto, Helder, José, Rui, Campos, J. Creissac
This paper presents an interaction model for pervasive computing environments supporting localized activities, i.e., activities strongly associated to a specific physical environment. We are...
Display-centred applications in ubiquitous computing (2006)
Public displays can play an important enabling role in ubiquitous computing environments. This paper describes an on-going work for a multipurpose, multi-display infrastructure, designed to address...
Activity-centered ubiquitous computing support to localized activities (2006)
This paper presents ActivitySpot, a ubiquitous computing framework for supporting localized activities, i.e., activities strongly associated to a specific physical environment, performed by...
ActivitySpot: engaging, activity-centered experiences for occasional visitors (2005)
This paper presents the concepts, implementation details, and evaluation objectives of ActivitySpot, an infrastructure and toolkit aiming at supporting localized activities performed by occasional...
Pervasive location-based systems : the fundamental challenges between vision and reality (2005)
Ideally, a pervasive location-based system should allow mobile users to go anywhere and benefit from personalized and pro-active services tailored for their current activity. However, existing...
A computação ubíqua no suporte a actividades localizadas realizadas por visitantes ocasionais (2005)
A computação ubíqua no suporte a actividades localizadas realizadas por visitantes ocasionais. Palestra dada a 08 de Julho de 2004
Integrating local services and applications into external user home environments (2004)
Users moving between different ubiquitous computing environments should be able to take a full profit of the resources existent there, if their home environment (e.g. a mobile portal) could...
User-centered support to localized activities in ubiquitous computing environments (2004)
The design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems must be centered on users’ activity in order to bring computing systems closer to people. The adoption of an activity-centered approach to...
Supporting localized activities in ubiquitous computing environments (2004)
The design of pervasive and ubiquitous computing systems must be centered on users' activity in order to bring computing systems closer to people. Adopting an activity-centered approach to the design...
A computação ubíqua no suporte a actividades localizadas realizadas por visitantes ocasionais (2004)
Hipótese de Investigação: As infra-estruturas de computação ubíqua que apliquem o conceito de actividade localizada – e, por inerência, os princípios da Teoria da Actividade – na...
Desenvolvimento de aplicações para palmtops (2004)
O Departamento de Sistemas de Informação da Universidade do Minho, através do seu Grupo de Engenharia da Telecomputação, é responsável pelo projecto de investigação AROUND, cuja área...
System support for integrated ubiquitous computing environments (2003)
José, Rui, Pinto, Helder, Meneses, Filipe, Vilas Boas, Noé, Rodrigues, Helena, Moreira, Adriano
This paper describes an ongoing research on the issues of interoperability and seamless integration between a global user environment and the ubiquitous computing environments corresponding to the...
An expandable location-based portal for mobile users (2003)
Moreira, Adriano, José, Rui, Pinto, Helder, Vilas Boas, Noé
The provision of information and electronic services to citizens through wireless networks has already started a few years ago. In particular, most GSM network operators in Europe offer a...
Using a private UDDI for publishing location-based information to mobile users (2003)
Pinto, Helder, Vilas Boas, Noé, José, Rui
This paper describes our experience with the use of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) technology for supporting location-based service discovery. Our goal is to allow Web...
Hypergeo : context-aware access to geographic information for mobile users (2003)
Rodrigues, Helena, José, Rui, Moreira, Adriano, Pinto, Helder
The Hypergeo project aimed at providing technical tools to enable value-added, location-based information services to mobile users. Existing approaches are typically based on obtaining some...
Utilização do UDDI no suporte à descoberta de serviços baseados na localização (2003)
Pinto, Helder, Vilas Boas, Noé, José, Rui
Este artigo explora a utilização do registo UDDI como plataforma de suporte à descoberta de serviços baseados na localização. O registo UDDI é essencialmente vocacionado para o registo e...
Este trabalho estuda o desenho de aplicações baseadas na localização, ou seja aplicações que forneçam informação associada ao ambiente físico do utilizador ou que permitam a interacção...
R.: Using a Private UDDI for Publishing Location-Based Information to Mobile Users (2003)
Helder Pinto, Rui José, Noé Vilas Boas
This paper describes our experience with the use of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) technology for supporting location-based service discovery. Our goal is to allow Web...
Visitor : um sistema de informação dependente da localização (2001)
Os sistemas de informação com carácter de mobilidade oferecem novas possibilidades aos utilizadores, nomeadamente em relação aos serviços de que estes podem usufruir. Este tipo de modelo de...