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Gregor Broll, Sven Siorpaes, Enrico Rukzio, Massimo Paolucci, John Hamard, Matthias Wagner, Albrecht Schmidt
Supporting Service Interaction in the Real World
Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2006), In Pervasive 2006 Workshop Proceedings, Dublin, Ireland, May 7, 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-018411-6

Driven by improved mobile information access and capture, physical mobile interaction is increasingly gaining importance. It uses and exploits the familiar interaction with real world objects in order to provide intuitive access to associated digital information and services. This development is accommodated by the dissemination of the "Internet of Things" in which everyday objects are uniquely identified through wireless markers and have individual network references. Current implementations of physical mobile interaction with services are mostly proprietary and rather simple. Yet we think that its combination with Semantic Web services could greatly improve mobile interaction with digital information and services through associated real world objects. We introduce a conceptual architecture for exploiting semantic descriptions of Web services for the automatic generation of rich user interfaces in order to facilitate physical mobile interaction with objects from the Internet of Things. We also present the results of an early user study and paper-prototyping in order to evaluate our approach to physical mobile interaction.