Bertrand David à l'atelier Collecticiels d'IHM'10

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Hotspot Based Mobile Web Communication
Laboratoire d’Informatique pour
l’Entreprise
et les Systèmes de Production
Laboratoire d’Informatique pour
l’Entreprise
et les Systèmes de Production
Hotspot Based Mobile Web Communication
and Cooperation:
ABRI+ Bus Shelter as a hotspot for mobile
contextual transportation and social
collaboration
Bertrand DAVID
LIESP lab
Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France
Bertrand.David@ec-lyon.fr
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Agenda
1. Introduction
2 Mobile Internet and location-based services (LBS) for2. Mobile Internet and location based services (LBS) for
communication / collaboration
1. Main principles
2. Different configurations
3. Case study : ABRI+ Bus Shelter as a hotspot for mobile
contextual transportation and social collaboration
1. Contextual transportation
2. Social collaboration
4. Conclusion and future work
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Introduction
• Our objective is to study a new approach of mobile web and
location-based services (LBS) for communication / collaboration.
• Classically web communication is world wide: an user canClassically web communication is world wide: an user can
communicate (access, consult, update,…) the information which is
located world wide.
• At the apposite, tools like Follow-me (experimented at Interact 2003)
is working on the on the basis of geographical proximity of actors,
who can be detected by the locator and each actor is informed on de
proximity of his “friends “.
• Our approach is based on a physical hot spot serving as anpp p y p g
accumulation point; a hub for thematic and social
collaboration.
• Different actors can consult, publish or exchange information in
relation with the location materialized by the hot spot.
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Communication / Cooperation
• A taxonomy of cooperation situations was proposed by Ellis et al. [1]
who identified local versus distant and asynchronous versus
synchronous working conditions.y g
• The next step was to take into account the location of actors i.e.
predictable or unpredictable [2].
• At the moment we have a large number of solutions, from
asynchronous (in the form of e-mail, SMS, MMS) to more or less
synchronous as with ICQ, …
• From a device point of view, desktops or laptops are not anymore
a unique kind of device, more mobile devices such as TabletPC,q , ,
PDA, and smart phone, called wearable or handheld computers,
are being used more and more.
• In web-based cooperation the location of actors can be world wide
and more or less dynamic as are facebook or twitter.
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Case study
• For us the communication / collaboration is mobile and
contextual.contextual.
• In our case study it is based on a bus shelter as a
location hot spot and is transportation and local
community social life cooperation oriented.
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Hotspot based communication and
cooperation
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Eight basic communication / cooperation
situations:
1. Global interaction between initiator actor and www server.
2. Local interaction between initiator actor and hub server.
3. Local interaction between initiator actor and hub server with
propagation to final actorpropagation to final actor.
4. Local interaction between initiator actor and hub server with explicit
consultation by the final actor.
5. Local public advertising sent by the servers or initiator actor to the
Hub Public Screen, with possible propagation to final actors (push).
6. Local public advertising sent by the servers or initiator actor to the
Hub Public Screen, with possible collection by final actors (pull).
7. Local semi-public information sent by the servers or initiator actor
to the Hub Public Screen, with possible collection by final actors
(pull)
8. Local private information sent by the servers or initiator actor to the
Hub Public Screen, with collection by final actors allowed by
received access code (pull)
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Basic situations (1-3)
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Basic situations (4-6)
push
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Basic situations (7-8)
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Case Study: Bus shelter context
The Soviet Roadside Bus-stop [3] and more modern bus shelter [4]
MIT Researchers Unveil EyeStop, a Bus Stop [9]
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Transportation oriented
Hotspot Communication / Cooperation
Main services:
• Deliver highly detailedDeliver highly detailed
transportation information
• Special requests (cycle or
baby carriage, elderly or
disabled passengers …).
• Rapid or snail transportation,
according to a majority
passenger destination.
• Car sharing or hitch-hiking
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management by using an
Electronic Display Board
(EDB).

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Neighborhood social life oriented
Hotspot Communication / Cooperation
Main services:
• Local animation during the
waiting period for adults and
childrenchildren
• Transportation intermodal
information
• Shopping and tourist
information, cultural and sport
activities
• Theatre, sport games,
community associations
meetings
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meetings
• …
• Lockers for parcels to be sent and received in order to manage home and office-off
of an addressed person. The locker has a sharing ID access mechanism which
ismanaged by the hotspot. The sender can ask for an ID, which will be used to
deposit the parcel, and the distribution service will use same ID to take the parcel
and vice versa for the distribution of parcels.
Information exchange
• Information exchange between a large public screen and personal handheld
devices by QR-Code to appropriate, personal and confidential exploration
and treatment.
Main services:
• Local information such as
just in time shopping
advertising from local
shopkeepers, bakers or
butchers
• Neighborhood exchange of
used clothes or appliances
• Private information
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• Private information
exchange

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Final discussions (1/2)
• Bus shelters in urban locations and on busy traffic routes are often
provided without charge by companies such as JCDecaux, Clear
Channel Communications and CBS Outdoor in return for valuable
out-of-home advertising rights In this way economicalout of home advertising rights. In this way economical
considerations can be integrated into this global negotiation.
• Another important aspect is related to prevention of vandalism and
degradations. Naturally this is an important aspect mainly in certain
county areas and districts. The solution is not easy but can be
oriented to different approaches: physical protection, appropriate
technical and technological solutions such as with no large screenstechnical and technological solutions such as with no large screens
and only individual devices on which the information is exclusively
displayed, and so on.
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Final discussions (2/2)
• Another important problem is naturally related to the acceptability of
such a system, in its different aspects which are more or less
intrusive in an actor’s private life [15] Of course two excessiveintrusive in an actor s private life [15]. Of course, two excessive
attitudes are to be eliminated: nothing and everything.
• We expect to carry out appropriate acceptability studies in relation
with which different prototypes on which we are working at the
moment will be experimented.
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Conclusion and perspectives
• We have presented an original mobile web and location-based
services for communication / cooperation situations characterized by
a contextual hotspot.
• It allows to the actors located worldwide but having a particular
location point of interest, to organize their communication /
cooperation in relation with this hub.
• We have described a generic view and its adaptation to a situation
related to transportation and neighborhood life.
• We are at the moment creating a first prototype in order to be able to
appreciate its utility, utilisability and acceptability with the respect of
privacy.
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Thank you …..
Questions ?Q
Bertrand.David@ec-lyon.fr
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Eight main Hotspot based
communication / cooperation situations
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pull
pull
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