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myGander: A mobile interface and distributed search engine for pervasive computing

  • Jonas Michel
  • , Christine Julien
  • , Jamie Payton
  • , Gruia Catalin Roman

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Abstract

Motivated by the growing amount of digitally-accessible information in our physical surroundings and the ephemeral nature of that information, there is a profound need to efficiently search information with spatiotemporal underpinnings without a priori indexing. Human users in Personalized Network Spaces (PNetS), pervasive computing environments connected by opportunistic peer-to-peer connections, need information that is immediate and localized. This tight integration of the user with his immediate surroundings introduces novel search requirements. The requisite support for performing search of the here and now in the here and now calls for a new paradigm of search that explicitly separates search from advanced indexing of data. In light of this vision, this paper presents Gander, a scalable search engine for PNetS, along with myGander, a prototype mobile interface for Gander. The utility and usability of myGander as supported by Gander is demonstrated through a practical real-world pervasive computing scenario.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2012
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages495-497
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9781467309073
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2012 - Lugano, Switzerland
Duration: Mar 19 2012Mar 23 2012

Publication series

Name2012 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2012

Conference

Conference10th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PERCOM Workshops 2012
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityLugano
Period3/19/123/23/12

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications

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