Ubiquitous Awareness in an Academic Environment

The aim of this work is to provide tools to facilitate the encounter of people that are physically close and are (usually) moving in a given setting. In this way unknown people, or people that do not know about others need or knowledge, could meet in a face to face scenario to establish a collaborative relation. The idea of Socialware is enhanced to a face to face Socialware. An Ad Hoc network was build with 40 wireless interconnected Pocket PCs (IEEE 802.11b) under a distributed agent architecture. This work studied how the proposed model behaved with freshmen engineering college students in their social and academic life.

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