Wireless SIG
The Wireless SIG is a special interest group dedicated to mobile and wireless technologies. We meet on the 1st Thursday of every month from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the offices of OCI. Please send comments and suggestions to the steering committee.
The steering committee members are:
Mark
Balbes — Object
Computing
Kyle
Cordes — Oasis
Digital
Jerry Overton — Object Computing
Click here to send an email to the steering committee. All comments and suggestions are welcome.
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technologies including but not limited to J2ME, .NET Compact Framework,
WAP, iMode, PDAs, and mobile phones.
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Next Meeting: Patterns of Mobile Interactions
presented by Jerry Overton
February 2, 2006, 5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at OCI
In this session, we will briefly review well-known patterns of mobile interactions. Most of the session will be discussing and designing a solution to the problem of virtual presence in mobile environments.
With virtual presence, multiple devices interact (depending on the needs and capabilities of the device) with a common environment. We will develop a virtual presence solution to the following problem:
Laptops, desktops, handheld computers and cell phones are all connected using a combination of wired and wireless networking. Design a technology that will grant group control of an application running on a desktop to all other connected devices. All connected devices must be allowed to interact with the application according to their capabilities. To the extent allowable by the device, each device must be updated with changes made by any other device.
We will end with a demonstration of open source software (PalmVNC 2.0) designed to solve the problem described above.
Suggested Reading:
Patterns of Mobile Interaction (2001)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/600782.html
Design Patterns for Context-Aware Adaptation (2005)
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/730343.html
Schedule For 2006:
| February 2, 2006 | Patterns of Mobile Interaction | |
| March 2, 2006 | Mobile Information Sharing Part 1 | |
| April 6, 2006 | Mobile Information Sharing Part 2 | |
| May 4, 2006 | Seven Challenges for Developers of Mobile Groupware | |
| June 1, 2006 | Handoff of Application Sessions Across Time and Space | |
| July 6, 2006 | Participant-suggested topic | |
| August 3, 2006 | Context-Enabled Applications | |
| September 7, 2006 | Mobile Agents Part 1 | |
| October 5, 2006 | Mobile Agents Part 2 | |
| November 2, 2006 | Instance-Based Networking | |
| December 7, 2006 | Wireless Real-Time Systems |
Archives of Past Meetings: