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Digital Assistant for Supporting Conference Participants: An Attempt to Combine Mobile, Ubiquitous and Web Computing

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Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2001)

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This paper describes a project of providing digital assistants to support participants in an academic conference. We provided participants at the conference with a personal assistant system with mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies and facilitated communications among the participants. We also made online services available via the Web to encourage the participants to continue their relationships even after the conference. In this paper, we show the system we provided for the project and report the results.

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  1. ATR Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0288, Japan

    Yasuyuki Sumi & Kenji Mase

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  1. College of Computing and GVU Center, Georgia Tech, 801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280, USA

    Gregory D. Abowd

  2. One Microsoft Way, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA, 98052, USA

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Sumi, Y., Mase, K. (2001). Digital Assistant for Supporting Conference Participants: An Attempt to Combine Mobile, Ubiquitous and Web Computing. In: Abowd, G.D., Brumitt, B., Shafer, S. (eds) Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2201. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45427-6_13

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