Mobile agents for mobile tourists: a user evaluation of Gulliver's Genie

Agent and Multi-Agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems

2010

Abstract. Service provision for mobile users poses several challenges for those managing enterprise information systems. Some of these are ubiquitous, for example, privacy and security. Others give rise to integration and interoperability issues. The agent paradigm, though offering potential in fixed networked scenarios, has not been seriously considered as a mechanism for incorporating mobile clients, primarily to their computational intractability on mobile devices. However, recent developments in agent and mobile computing technologies -both from a hardware and software perspective, have rendered the mobile phone a viable platform for agents. One implication of this is that agents now offer a viable platform for service delivery to mobile users. This chapter reflects on some of the pertinent issues necessary for this, including Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE). The discussion is illuminated with a systematic description of EasyLife -a framework that harnesses the agent paradigm to construct and deliver services to mobile users.

Section: Why Agents?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Service Fusion in Mobile Contexts

Shen

Agent and Multi-Agent Technology for Internet and Enterprise Systems

2010

“…The application in question -Gulliver's Genie [29] [30] has been an ongoing project for a number of years. It is extensively described in the literature and it has been the subject of user evaluations [31]. The overall objective of the Genie is to deliver multimedia presentations to tourists on those attractions that they encounter while roaming.…”

Section: Context Sensitive Content Delivery In the Tourist Domainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mobile Multimedia

International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence

Collier

2010

Delivering multimedia services to roaming subscribers raises significant challenges for content providers. There are a number of reasons for this; however, the principal difficulties arise from the inherent differences between the nature of mobile computing usage, and that of its static counterpart. The harnessing of appropriate contextual elements pertaining to a mobile subscriber at any given time offers significant opportunities for enhancing and customising service delivery. Dynamic content provision is a case in point. The versatile nature of the mobile subscriber offers opportunities for the delivery of content that is most appropriate to the subscriber's prevailing context, and hence is most likely to be welcomed. To succeed in this endeavour requires an innate understanding of the technologies, the mobile usage paradigm and the application domain in question, such that conflicting demands may be reconciled to the subscriber's benefit. In this paper, multimedia-augmented service provision for mobile subscribers is considered in light of the availability of contextual information. In particular, context-aware precaching is advocated as a means of maximising the possibilities for delivering contextaware services to mobile subscribers in scenarios of dynamic contexts.

“…Intelligent agents have been successfully deployed in many mobile computing domains including tourism [11] and mobile commerce [12] and their characteristics make them a particularity apt solution for applications that must operate robustly in complex and dynamic environments. Specifically, the Lutfen Mobile Application (LMA) has been coded using AFME's BDI-style agents.…”

Section: B Implementationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Mobile Collaborative Exergaming

Görgü

2009 Second International Conference on Advances in Human-Oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

2009

Abstract-Today's high calorie diets and low physical activity levels contributes towards childhood obesity. Exergaming, a combination of "exercise" and "gaming" was conceived as a means of addressing this problem. Fundamental to the success of exergaming is to successfully harness conventional mobile computing technologies to deliver platforms for games that are adaptive to the exercise requirements of individual children. This paper presents the design of one such platform that enables gaming to occur in mobile, collaborative contexts.