Service-based public interaction framework for pervasive computing

Abstract

The idea of pervasive computing as people yearning for is not a longstanding version, and a unified interactive interface is a realistic demanding aspect of pervasive computing. To meet this requirement, a service-based framework called Public Interaction Framework (PIF) is presented in this paper. It focuses on allowing the applications that require complex interactions to run simultaneously on a public environment. PIF uses a device-based and task-oriented universal service called Public Interaction Service (PIS) to maintain the general support with multi-agent systems for the devices and applications registered to it. The importance of this work is providing an open, flexible framework that supporting the interactive equipment net in the pervasive computing environment, thus facilitating the application development. © Springer-Verlag 2010.