A Situated Computing Framework for Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia Acces using Small Screen and composite Devices

Small screen devices, such as cellular phones or Personal Digital
Assistants (PDAs), enjoy phenomenal popularity. PDAs can be used to
complement traditional desktop computing systems to access personal
multimedia information besides the use as typical organizers. However, due
to the physical limitations accessing rich multimedia contents and diverse
services using a single PDA is more difficult. Hence, the Situated Computing
Framework (SCF) research project at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) aims to
develop methods that allow users a high degree of mobility and concurrent to
facilitate the access of rich multimedia contents by using a small screen
device. A new distributed computing concept, the Small Screen/Composite
Device (SS/CD) approach, is introduced, which offers new classes of
ubiquitous and mobile multimedia services to small screen device users
without to limit the diversity and the richness of the provided services."


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Gabi JACQUINOT
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken
phone: +49 681 302 5252
fax: +49 681 302 5341
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