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Wireless wires: let the user build the ubiquitous computer

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Davide Carboni,

Pietro ZanariniAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia

Pages 169 - 175

https://doi.org/10.1145/1329469.1329492

Published: 12 December 2007 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we describe the motivations, the rationale and a solution to build a web of things in which people have the important role to build new connections between real objects using a simple interaction based on pointing visual tags. Some scenarios are described and in particular the conference room scenario is analyzed in depth and a real prototype that implements this scenario is showed.

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Index Terms

Wireless wires: let the user build the ubiquitous computer
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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DOI:10.1145/1329469

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Pintus ACarboni DPiras AGiordano A(2010)Connecting smart things through web services orchestrationsProceedings of the 10th international conference on Current trends in web engineering10.5555/1927229.1927278(431-441)Online publication date: 5-Jul-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1927229.1927278
Pintus ACarboni DPiras AGiordano A(2010)Connecting Smart Things through Web Services OrchestrationsCurrent Trends in Web Engineering10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_41(431-441)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16985-4_41
Sánchez IRiekki JPyykkönen M(2009)Touch & ComposeProceedings of the 2009 First International Workshop on Near Field Communication10.1109/NFC.2009.11(61-66)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/NFC.2009.11

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