%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.}, added-at = {2010-12-08T16:54:32.000+0100}, author = {Leonhardi, Alexander and Kubach, Uwe and Rothermel, Kurt and Fritz, Andreas}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/26a0b08bb97bcb055e16cdb4a944f752c/kw}, booktitle = {IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WEARABLE COMPUTERS}, description = {Virtual Information Towers - A Metaphor for Intuitive, Location-Aware Information Access in a Mobile Environment}, interhash = {884acdbf22860eead334300c233696be}, intrahash = {6a0b08bb97bcb055e16cdb4a944f752c}, keywords = {lbs locationbasedservices mybsccandid mybsc}, 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 }