Enhancing Collaboration in a Scenario of Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract

Collaboration between people has the communication as element key. However this interaction needs a process of searching for collaborators, as well as the determination of what communication channel can be used by the participants, and these are the essential steps of a collaboration. These two steps can be increased when they are embedded in a ubiquitous computing scenario. In this kind of scenario, new possibilities of collaboration are open and the context awareness can increase the selection of peers and communication channels. But solutions that take advantage of these possibilities have not yet been fully exploited. This paper presents MaPS, a framework for collaborative applications that uses context awareness to optimize the initial steps of a collaboration.