This paper presents the results of a study toward generating a wireless environment to provide realtime mobile accessibility to patient information system. A trial system is set up where database, Internet, and wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs) are integrated in such a way that the medical professionals like physicians, nurses, and lab assistants can create, access, and update medical...

Personal Assistants working within a common interest social community has special characteristics stemmed from the common profile that is usually inherent in the community. Personal assistants should consult their own preference profile, the community common profile and the profiles of other peers of the community. In this research, we propose an architecture for an environment to handle such u...

During a museum visit, social interaction can improve intellectual, social, personal and cultural development. With the advances in technology, the use of personal mobile handheld devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) that replace the traditional paper guidebooks is becoming a common sight at various heritage sites all over the world. This technology often leads to problems such as...

This paper describes a personal agent that guides a visitor through a virtual space by using context, i.e., visitor interaction, in the real world. aContext-awareo guidance in the real world has become an increasingly important research demand since the advent of small and powerful palmtop computers, or PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), that can obtain useful information about objects in the ...