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H. Huang, G. Gartner, M. Schmidt, Y. Li:
"Smart Environment for Ubiquitous Indoor Navigation";
Talk: 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science, Beijing, China; 06-30-2009 - 07-02-2009; in: "Proceedings of 2009 International Conference on New Trends in Information and Service Science", IEEE Computer Society, (2009), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3687-3; 5 pages.

Mobile navigation service is one of the most important Location Based Services. With the rapid advances in enabling technologies for ubiquitous computing, more and more active or passive devices/sensors are augmented in the indoor environment, indoor environment has become smarter. This paper proposes that by introducing the notions of Smart Environment and Ambient Intelligent, a ubiquitous indoor navigation service can be built to provide an adaptive smart wayfinding support and enhance users with a new experience during indoor navigation. In this paper, we set up a smart environment with a positioning module and a wireless module. Based on this smart environment, we design a ubiquitous indoor navigation system with interaction and annotation module (for user generated content), user tracking module (for collaborative filtering) and context-aware adaptation to illustrate some potential benefits of combining indoor navigation and Smart Environment.

smart envrionment; context-aware adaptation; user generated content; collaborative filtering; ubiquitous indoor navigation