When Cyborgs meet: building communities of cooperating wearable agents

Abstract

Abstract

Social net

“…Work in Wearable Communities has created agents that automatically optimize to-do lists by swapping and consolidating errands between people encountered [5]. For example, if two people both need items from the grocery store, the agents exchange errands when they meet so that only one person goes to the store, but obtains the items on both users' lists.…”

When peer-to-peer comes face-to-face: collaborative peer-to-peer computing in mobile ad-hoc networks

“…A possible approach is to develop personal agents that act on the behalf and in the interest of their users [10]. The task of such agents would be to find and interact with other peoples' personal agents for a variety of well-defined purposes, either automatically as side effect of a chance encounter or when explicitly instructed to do so.…”

“…Our final scenario derives from our earlier work on task trading in "Wearable Communities" as realized by the WALID system [10]. WALID implements a digitized version of the timeworn tradition of borrowing butter from your neighbor.…”

“…The motivation for developing Proem arose from our experiences in implementing a series of mobile applications for face-to-face collaboration [9,10]. Over time we identified enough commonalities among these applications to merit the development of a generic software platform.…”

“…Their ability to establish communication links among devices during face-to-face encounters can be used to facilitate, augment or even promote human social interactions. Examples of possible uses include applications that alert us to the presence of friends at a crowded public space [6] or identify people we want to meet using a match making algorithm that takes in account our preferences and interests [7,8], systems that spread rumors [5], facilitate the exchange of personal information [9], or support us in more complex tasks like trading delivery tasks [10].…”