Look, Ma, My homepage is Mobile! |
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Authors: | Roger Kehr Andreas Zeidler |
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Affiliation: | (1) T-Nova Research Laboratories, Deutsche Telekom AG, Darmstadt, Germany;(2) Department of Computer Science, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany |
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Abstract: | Much of the ongoing research in ubiquitous computing has concentrated on providing context information, e.g. location information,
to the level of services and applications. Typically, mobile clients obtain location information from their environment which
is used to provide “locally optimal” services. In contrast, it may be of interest to obtain information about the current
context a mobile user or device is in, from a client somewhere on the Web, i.e. to use the mobile device as an information
provider for Internet clients.
As an instance of such services we propose the metaphor of a “location-aware” Web homepage of mobile users providing information
about, e.g. the current location a mobile user is at. Requesting this homepage can be as easy as typing a URL containing the
mobile user's phone number such ashttp://mhp.net/+49123456789 in an off-the-shelf browser. The homepage is dynamically constructed as Web users access it and it can be configured in various
ways that are controlled by the mobile user. We present the architecture and implementation and discuss issues around this
example of “inverse” ubiquitous computing. |
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Keywords: | Context information GSM phones Homepage Location Mobile computing Ubiquitous computing |
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