Smart Reminder - Personal Assistance in a Mobile Computing Environment

In this paper, we describe the Smart Reminder agent that we developed using our CIA personal agent framework. We first motivate the need for personal assistance and how this need led us to the development of the CIA agent framework. Smart Reminder is composed of a set of personal agents that support their user in all situations where people come together spontaneously, e.g. an encounter on a corridor. Smart Reminder will notice the presence of another person and display identity information like name, affiliation, etc. In cooperation with other CIA agents it will also display information related to that person like common dates and tasks. After the introduction of this scenario and a description of the functional range of Smart Reminder we continue our paper with some technical aspects of the application like person detection and communication via Bluetooth. We conclude our paper by giving an outlook how Smart Reminder can be extended in the future.

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