Ubiquitous Awareness in An Academic Environment

Nussbaum Voehl, Miguel; Aldunate - Vera, Roberto G.; Sfeid, Farid; Oyarce López, Sergio Hugo; González Gutiérrez, Roberto

Ubiquitous Awareness in An Academic Environment

Date

2004

Authors

Nussbaum Voehl, Miguel

Aldunate - Vera, Roberto G.

Sfeid, Farid

Oyarce López, Sergio Hugo

González Gutiérrez, Roberto

Abstract

The aim of this work is to provide tools to facilitate the encounter of people that are physically close and are (usually) moving in a given setting. In this way unknown people, or people that do not know about others need or knowledge, could meet in a face to face scenario to establish a collaborative relation. The idea of Socialware is enhanced to a face to face Socialware. An Ad Hoc network was build with 40 wireless interconnected Pocket PCs (IEEE 802.11b) under a distributed agent architecture. This work studied how the proposed model behaved with freshmen engineering college students in their social and academic life.