Wireless wires: let the user build the ubiquitous computer

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

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
distributed systems, internet of things, mobile computing, proximity technologies, ubiquitous computing, visual tags, web of things