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The number of networked “smart devices” available in everyday environments is rapidly increasing; however, most adopt mutually incompatible networks, protocols, and application programming interfaces. In previous work, we introduced a variety of adaptive middleware techniques that enables a user's commodity mobile device (e.g., a smartphone) to serve as an adaptive gateway between mutually incompatible...
The number of networked smart devices available in everyday environments is rapidly increasing; however, many current devices adopt mutually incompatible networks, protocols, and application programming interfaces. As such, creating mobile applications that dynamically discover and integrate ambient functionality across multiple vertical markets remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce a novel...
Context-awareness is becoming an important foundation of adaptive mobile systems, however, techniques for discovering contextually relevant Web content and Smart Devices (i.e., Smart Resources) remain consigned to small-scale deployments. To address this limitation, this paper introduces Ambient Ocean, a Web search engine for context-aware Smart Resource discovery. Ocean provides scalable mechanisms...
Smartphone apps with self-monitoring and sensing capabilities can help in disease prevention; however, such context-aware applications are difficult to develop, due to the complexities of sensor data acquisition, context modeling, and data management. To ease the development of mHealth and Telemedicine apps, we developed the Mobile Sensing Framework (MSF), which dynamically installs device appropriate...
Emerging context frameworks enable Websites to interact with the Internet of Things directly from the browser; however, Websites must be specifically designed to utilize such context framework support. As such, the majority of “legacy” Websites remains context-unaware. This paper presents Ambient Amp, an open framework for dynamically augmenting legacy Websites with context-awareness, without requiring...
The Web of Things (WoT) aims to extend the Web into the physical world by promoting the adoption of Web protocols by situated services and smart objects (ambient artifacts). However, real-world ambient artifacts often adopt proprietary and/or non-Web protocols, making them invisible to Web search engines and inaccessible to conventional Web agents. Smart Gateways have been proposed as a way to "Web-enable"...
Imagine if your favorite social networking website provided a “Share to Screen” button that automatically dimmed the room lights and streamed your web-based photos and videos to a nearby television, projector or photo frame. Unfortunately, such fluid interactions between the Web and the physical environment remain challenging, since conventional Web browsers are still unable to directly interact with...
Ambient Health Monitoring is becoming increasingly important for supporting proactive self-monitoring as part of a healthy lifestyle and as an enabler of appropriate healthcare services in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). However, the heterogeneity of available context sources and AAL infrastructure components hinders the design of holistic systems. In this paper, we describe a comprehensive modular...
Today's mobile devices represent exceptional foundations for wide-area Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, the vast heterogeneity of real-world environments makes it challenging for applications to sense, understand and adapt to the user's continually evolving context. We're investigating a new community-based approach for context-aware computing, where advanced context sensing capabilities...
The Web has rapidly evolved from a static informational medium into a highly capable interactive application platform. Today, Web browsers have become the de facto interface for many networked applications; however, conventional Web browsers are still unable to directly interact with the broad range of context sources and actuators available in highly heterogeneous mobile environments. In our Ambient...
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