A TOUCH IS WORTH A THOUSAND CLICKS

Zoe Antoniou

2006

Abstract

The fusion of interaction and discovery technologies can facilitate easy, intuitive and impromptu access to networked entities by users without the need for significant administrative overhead. Due to mobility, complex connectivity and small user interfaces, traditional service discovery methods fail to meet the demands placed by such environments. This paper presents work-in-progress on how NFC-enhanced mobile devices can enable intuitive service discovery by non-expert users in smart environments through simple gestures such as touch. With this new paradigm, physical space becomes an extension of the traditional GUI. An extensible RFID tag record is presented that can be utilised in a variety of scenarios. The proposed approach is further illustrated through a technical realisation based on the UPnP framework. An example use case is selected and the step-by-step process of service discovery and user interaction is described.

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Antoniou Z. (2006). A TOUCH IS WORTH A THOUSAND CLICKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-65-8, pages 250-257. DOI: 10.5220/0002088502500257


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys06,
author={Zoe Antoniou},
title={A TOUCH IS WORTH A THOUSAND CLICKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={250-257},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002088502500257},
isbn={978-972-8865-65-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2006)
TI - A TOUCH IS WORTH A THOUSAND CLICKS
SN - 978-972-8865-65-8
AU - Antoniou Z.
PY - 2006
SP - 250
EP - 257
DO - 10.5220/0002088502500257