Integrates computation into the environment, and enables people to move around and interact with information and computing naturally and casually. One of the goals of ubiquitous computing is to enable devices to sense changes in their environment and to automatically adapt and act based on these changes according to user needs and preferences.
Published in Chapter:
Context-Aware Service Discovery in Ubiquitous Computing
Huaqun Guo (Institute for Infocomm Research and National Univerity of Singapore, Singapore), Daqing Zhang (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), Lek-Heng Ngoh (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore), Song Zheng (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore), and Wai-Choong Wong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch018
Abstract
The decreasing cost of networking technology and network-enabled devices is driving the large scale deployment of such networks and devices so as to offer many new and innovative services to users in ubiquitous computing. For example, when you carry your mobile laptop or personal digital assistant (PDA) around, or drive on the road, various services have been made available, ranging from finding a local printer to print a file, to instantaneously knowing about the traffic situation from traffic-cameras and other sensors along a highway.