Supporting Persistent Social Groups in Ubiquitous Computing Environments Using Context-Aware Ephemeral Group Service

In this paper, we analyze the role of the social group in a Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) environment as a source of contextual information. A model is presented to address the social group member's perceptions of how devices in a Ubicomp environment should aid them in collaboration. Based on the model a distributed context-aware group membership management scheme is developed. We then present a prototype implementation for a context-aware ephemeral group membership management scheme, along with a sample application, and experimental results that demonstrate the feasibility of our system.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: PERCOM
• Authors: Bin Wang, John Bodily, Sandeep K. S. Gupta
• Keywords: Context-aware Ephemeral Group, Context-aware Group Membership, Membership Management Scheme, PERCOM 2004, Wireless Networks