Enhancing the opportunities of collaborative work in an intelligent room using e-tourism services

Abstract

An intelligent room system creates a digital service-oriented environment for collaborative work. This paper studies the problem of enhancing such a system with services of electronic tourism (e-Tourism). We define a scenario to enhance the opportunities of collaborative work through involving the participants in the making of a social program to explore the region where the collaborative activity takes place. As a specific software application, we consider the SmartRoom system, which supports collaborative work in a room during such activities as conferences and meetings. Using the smart spaces approach, we develop a set of services to implement the scenario of social program creation. We propose an ontological model and interaction mechanisms for service construction and delivery based on shared information collection and processing by multiple software agents in the smart space created by the SmartRoom system. Our experimental performance study illustrates the proposed service enhancement.