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The aim of this work is to provide tools to facilitate the encounter of people that are physically close and are (usually) moving in a given setting. In this way unknown people, or people that do not know about others need or knowledge, could meet in a face to face scenario to establish a collaborative relation. The idea of Socialware is enhanced to a face to face Socialware. An Ad Hoc network was build with 40 wireless interconnected Pocket PCs (IEEE 802.11b) under a distributed agent architecture. This work studied how the proposed model behaved with freshmen engineering college students in their social and academic life.
This work was partially funded by FONDECYT 1020734 and Microsoft Research
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Nussbaum, M., Aldunate, R., Sfeid, F., Oyarce, S., Gonzalez, R. (2004). Ubiquitous Awareness in an Academic Environment. In: Crestani, F., Dunlop, M., Mizzaro, S. (eds) Mobile and Ubiquitous Information Access. MUIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24641-1_18
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