Close Encounters: Supporting Mobile Collaboration through Interchange of User Profiles

CybreMinder: A Context-Aware System for Supporting Reminders

“…Proem is a wearable computer-based system that supports profile-based cooperation [11]. Wearers can write simple rules that indicate their interests in other people.…”

VibeFones: Socially Aware Mobile Phones

“…Eagle and Pentland used the Bluetooth radio functionality in mobile phones to recognize activity patterns, infer social relationships and model organizational rhythms [10]. Alternative methods of tracking co-location for social groups that have been used in the past include infra-red (IR) beacons to capture face-to-face interactions, short-range radios (same room or office) or GPS location-based services [17,20,24]. Gips and Pentland [14] used infra-red tags, voice features, and body motion to predict when people would exchange business cards or ask for project-related information.…”

When Cyborgs meet: building communities of cooperating wearable agents

“…Wireless connectivity is achieved through a Metricom wireless modem or a Lucent WaveLAN adapter. The hardware is described in more detail in [1,2,9,10].…”

“…Proem [9], a system developed at our lab, is the precursor to the work described in this paper. Proem is based on the notion of personal profiles, which are exchanged whenever two or more wearable users encounter each other.…”

“…Most of them are wearable videoconference systems [1,2,3,4,8,10,12,17], while others aim at establishing personal relationships between users [5]. For example, our own Proem system [9] enables two or more users to exchange personal user profiles in real-time during face-to-face encounters with the goal to identify shared interests.…”