Title :
Canard: a framework for community messaging
Author :
Chesnais, Pascal R.
Author_Institution :
Media Lab., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
A portable and extensible framework for community messaging is described. It integrates off-the-shelf communications devices and protocols by converting them into a uniform message representation. Using personal databases, the relevancy of a message is evaluated and appropriate delivery channels selected. This framework is being tested with a group of forty students in a living group at MIT. They have been equipped with two-way pagers which can be carried at all times and work in concert with this communication framework. The framework´s ability to autonomously manage communications, makes it a flexible model for the wearable community where communications reliability is an issue.
Keywords :
groupware; protocols; user modelling; Canard; communications reliability; community messaging framework; computer-supported cooperative work; delivery channels; off-the-shelf communications devices; personal databases; protocols; two-way pagers; uniform message representation; user modelling; wearable community; Application software; Computer applications; Databases; Digital communication; Electronic mail; Laboratories; Protocols; Technology management; Testing; Wearable computers;
Conference_Titel :
Wearable Computers, 1997. Digest of Papers., First International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8192-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISWC.1997.629926
