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Sven Siorpaes, Gregor Broll, Massimo Paolucci, Enrico Rukzio, John Hamard, Matthias Wagner, Albrecht Schmidt
Mobile Interaction with the Internet of Things
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006), Dublin, Ireland, May 8, 2006, ISBN 3-85403-207-2

The interaction between mobile devices and physical objects in the real world is gaining more and more attention as it provides a natural and intuitive way to request services associated with real world objects. We currently see several approaches for the provision of such services. Most of them are proprietary, designed for a special application area or interaction technique and provide no generic concept for the description of real world services. On the other hand the Internet of Things provides a set of standards and methods to tag objects in the real world. We think that the combination of these two technologies can support the development and dissemination of mobile interactions with the real world. Therefore, in this paper we present a concept, an architecture and an early prototype currently under development for mobile interactions with the Internet of Things. Hereby we use Semantic Web services for the description of services provided by the physical objects. This service description is then used for the automatic generation of user interfaces rendered by the mobile device.