An ubiquitous mobile multimedia system for events agenda

Author

Rosa, Pedro M P ; Dias, João A. ; Lopes, Ivo C. ; Rodrigues, Joel J P C ; Lin, Kai

Author_Institution

Inst. de lelecomunicacoes, Univ. of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

fYear

2012

fDate

1-4 April 2012

Firstpage

2103

Lastpage

2107

Abstract

The current growth of mobile devices enabled with GPS receptors, cameras, accelerometers, and Internet access offers new opportunities for new mobile ubiquitous multimedia applications. Such applications help local communities to share resources using geo-location, interactive mapping, augmented reality, and several data representations. This paper presents CityEvents, a mobile solution that provides real time awareness-based information of local events and news. The presented ubiquitous system is a simple and easy to use event guide, providing location-awareness and content-awareness ordering data to the user. The proposal was evaluated and demonstrated in iPhone devices and it is ready for use.

Keywords

Global Positioning System; accelerometers; augmented reality; image sensors; mobile computing; mobile handsets; multimedia computing; CityEvents; GPS receptors; Internet access; accelerometers; augmented reality; cameras; content-awareness; data representations; event guide; events agenda; geo-location; iPhone devices; interactive mapping; location-awareness; mobile devices; ubiquitous mobile multimedia system; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Servers; XML; Mobile computing; Mobility; Multimedia applications; Ubiquitous computing; Web services; iPhone;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0436-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2012.6214139

Filename

6214139