In the near future, intelligent objects and devices will become part of the environment where people live, providing information and offering services that can assist them in everyday life. In such settings, it is desirable that services offered to the us ers are meaningful (i.e. satisfy their tasks and needs). Intelligent environments should support the composition of partial information or service behaviours into comprehensive services that can achieve the user goals. Such composition should take place d ynamically as new service opportunities arise, such as when new devices appear or as users enter new environments. Service discovery and composition should not require expert knowledge, but be manageable for ordinary users.
The idea of UbiCompForAll is about providing support to end users so they can easily compose service behaviours in ubiquitous service environments. UbiCompForAll willprovide graphical composition tools targeted the end-users and a service execution platform.
The main challenge of UbiCompForAll is to come up with a comprehensive infrastructure that is sophisticated enough to handle the various aspects of user-driven service compositions (such as simplicity, robustness or privacy), while being intuitive enough for ordinary end-users.UbiCompForAll is a research project founded by the Norwegian Research Council. The project started in October 2008, with planned duration 4 years. It involves academia and industry.
A control flow notation has been proposed for the Doctor's appointment scenario, and a workshop was organized to conduct paper prototyping experiments for evaluation. The flow-based approach was found to be feasible, but some shortcomings of the notation were pointed out. More thorough testing will be carried out after the notation has been revised.
EasyComposer is a prototype tool developed in UbiCompForAll for the composition of teleservices. Positive feedback was provided during the initial user evaluation of the tool. EasyComposer is now being enhanced based on this feedback, and we plan further end-user tests in the near future.
Mohammad Ullah Khan has joined the project as a PostDoc researcher.
Through working in the MADAM and the MUSIC projects he brings very useful experiences in the field of self-adaptive applications for mobile users in ubiquitous computing environments. Mohammad will mainly contribute to the research areas covering - and not limited to - the runtime composition technique and the methodology, notation and tools for service modeling.
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