10.18453/rosdok_id00000927
Plociennik, Christiane
Christiane
Plociennik
http://d-nb.info/gnd/1018485481
Device Cooperation in Ad-hoc Multimedia Ensembles
Universität Rostock
2011
004 Data processing Computer sciences
2011
en
http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00000927
urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-diss2011-0161-5
Users can be overwhelmed by the abundance of functionality that smart ad-hoc environments offer. This thesis investigates how to assist the user in controlling such environments. We present an approach that enables the devices in an ad-hoc environment to cooperatively generate and execute an action sequence to fulfill the user's goals. Device cooperation happens spontaneously and in a completely distributed
fashion. In a quantitative user study, we show that users accept the assistance such a system provides even if it is suboptimal.