1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services

Research Article

An Interaction Model and Infrastructure for Localized Activities in Pervasive Computing Environments

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283921,
        author={ Helder  Pinto and Rui  Jose and Jose  Creissac Campos},
        title={An Interaction Model and Infrastructure for Localized Activities in Pervasive Computing Environments},
        proceedings={1st International IEEE Conference on Pervasive Services},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={ICPS},
        year={2007},
        month={8},
        keywords={Environmental management  Hospitals  Humans  Instruments  Mobile handsets  Pervasive computing  RFID tags},
        doi={10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283921}
    }
    
  • Helder Pinto
    Rui Jose
    Jose Creissac Campos
    Year: 2007
    An Interaction Model and Infrastructure for Localized Activities in Pervasive Computing Environments
    ICPS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/PERSER.2007.4283921
Helder Pinto1,*, Rui Jose2,*, Jose Creissac Campos3,*
  • 1: Departamento de Sistemas de Informac¸ao˜ Universidade do Minho Campus de Azurem´ 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal
  • 2: Departamento de Sistemas de Informac¸ao Universidade do Minho Campus de Azurem 4800-058 Guimaraes, Portugal
  • 3: Departamento de Informatica Universidade do Minho Campus de Gualtar 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
*Contact email: helder@dsi.uminho.pt, rui@dsi.uminho.pt, jose.campos@di.uminho.pt

Abstract

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 particularly interested in activities performed by occasional visitors to public spaces. This interaction model is characterized by an activity-centered approach to pervasive computing and is defined in a conceptual model inspired by activity theory. ActivitySpot, a software infrastructure implementing this conceptual model, is also presented. User interaction in ActivitySpot is based on simple, everyday pervasive computing devices, which facilitates usage learning and allows for a wide user population. ActivitySpot has supported the deployment of several pervasive computing solutions for localized activities. Our conceptual model has been evaluated by user studies run at different public spaces and global results demonstrate the models suitability to the targeted type of scenario