A service infrastructure to support ubiquitous engineering practices

Abstract

Ubiquitous computing allows users to move between gateways to the information world in ways that are appropriate to their current physical as well as contextual settings. Advanced visualization techniques, including immersive displays and augmented reality, have the potential to address the collocation needs of mobile engineering teams, and enhance their collaboration effectively. The paper explores the use of innovative technologies for implementing a ubiquitous engineering service infrastructure. This comprises a wide range of value-added engineering services that make use of visualization technologies - combined with location tracking techniques - to convey user and context sensitive, semantically enriched, high dimensional multimedia contents. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.