| This video presents the "Impromptu" system which was developed at the TecO of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly University of Karlsruhe), Germany. Pervasive Computing technology can convert everyday environments, such as office spaces, into digitally enriched places. Users can profit from pervasive computing environments in many ways: context aware applications may proactively react, leading to, for example, information being displayed based on the useres current location. In bringing more and more of these technologies together, the potential will rise yet the effort to keep these systems running will increase. Today many approaches require a pre-installation of technology and maintenance of the setting. In our vision such environments will not be planned and installed by experts, but will emerge or even be assembled ad-hoc. This will enable users, unfamiliar with computing technology in general and pervasive computing technology in particular, to profit from such environments without the need for administration and maintenance by others. This paper introduces Impromptu, a concept that enables us to build pervasive computing environments from scratch without the need for infrastructure and without expert knowledge and configuration. Impromptu defines concepts and provides a framework with enabling technology for creating systems that can later be used in Impromptu environments. The Impromptu specifies a computing device that can be part of such an ... |
