A Context-Aware Meeting Room: Mobile Interaction and Collaboration Using Android, Java ME and Windows Mobile

Abstract

Smart-meeting rooms constitute an interesting and realistic application area of context-aware technologies. In this paper, we present the development and evaluation of a prototypical smart-meeting room that, through embracing different mobile technological platforms, endows context aware abilities to meetings. Here, both participants and presenters share information through the Google cloud architecture across a heterogeneous group of mobile devices, running on popular platforms such as Java ME, Windows Mobile, and Android. Results show that the smart room successfully facilitates user participation and interaction, as well as information exchange, in the meeting room environment, irrespective of the mobile platform employed.