Physical Registration: Configuring Electronic Directories using Handheld Devices

Barton, John ; Kindberg, Tim ; Sadalgi, Shreyas

HP Development Company

关键词: nomadic;    ubiquitous;    pervasive;    discovery registration;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-119

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

An important problem in pervasive computing is how to create and maintain manageable collections of pervasive resources appropriate for disparate and typically nomadic users. This paper describes physical registration, a new, human-centric mechanism for constructing collections of resources in the form of electronic directories. Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped, wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. The entities can be web resources accessible over a network, like printers, projectors, picture frames, or storage devices. They can also be web resources correlated with objects like books or telephones that are not themselves accessible over a network. Our paper describes and motivates the method, then compares two implementations that we have constructed. 13 Pages