This paper introduces Virtual Information Towers (VITs) as a concept for presenting and accessing location-aware information with mobile clients. A VIT is a means of structuring location-aware information, which is assigned to a certain geographical position while having a certain area of visibility. A user equipped with a mobile, wearable computer has access to the VITs which are “visible ” from his/her current location. The architecture and protocols of a system are described, which allows its users to create VITs and to access the information on them using Internet mechanisms. We have implemented a prototype of this system and a VIT client for a wearable computer and will present some aspects of this implementation.
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Virtual Information Towers - A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment
%0 Conference Paper
%1 Leonhardi99virtualinformation
%A Leonhardi, Alexander
%A Kubach, Uwe
%A Rothermel, Kurt
%A Fritz, Andreas
%B IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEARABLE COMPUTERS
%D 1999
%I IEEE Computer Society
%K lbs locationbasedservices mybsccandid mybsc
%T Virtual Information Towers - A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment
%U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.138.854
%X This paper introduces Virtual Information Towers (VITs) as a concept for presenting and accessing location-aware information with mobile clients. A VIT is a means of structuring location-aware information, which is assigned to a certain geographical position while having a certain area of visibility. A user equipped with a mobile, wearable computer has access to the VITs which are “visible ” from his/her current location. The architecture and protocols of a system are described, which allows its users to create VITs and to access the information on them using Internet mechanisms. We have implemented a prototype of this system and a VIT client for a wearable computer and will present some aspects of this implementation.
@inproceedings{Leonhardi99virtualinformation,
abstract = {This paper introduces Virtual Information Towers (VITs) as a concept for presenting and accessing location-aware information with mobile clients. A VIT is a means of structuring location-aware information, which is assigned to a certain geographical position while having a certain area of visibility. A user equipped with a mobile, wearable computer has access to the VITs which are “visible ” from his/her current location. The architecture and protocols of a system are described, which allows its users to create VITs and to access the information on them using Internet mechanisms. We have implemented a prototype of this system and a VIT client for a wearable computer and will present some aspects of this implementation.},
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author = {Leonhardi, Alexander and Kubach, Uwe and Rothermel, Kurt and Fritz, Andreas},
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booktitle = {IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEARABLE COMPUTERS},
description = {Virtual Information Towers - A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment},
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publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
timestamp = {2012-08-24T14:02:31.000+0200},
title = {Virtual Information Towers - A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment},
url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.138.854},
year = 1999
}