Modeling interactions in human-centric wireless sensor networks

The recent growth of social networking and sensing applications has enabled people to perform crowd computing. In turn, this activity has opened several opportunities to address people's needs in various application areas, such as tourism, security, entertainment and emergency response. However...

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Published inProceedings of the 2014 IEEE 18th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) pp. 661 - 666
Main Authors Monares, Alvaro, Ochoa, Sergio F., Herskovic, Valeria, Santos, Rodrigo, Pino, Jose A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2014
Subjects
Collaboration
Computational modeling
cooperative computing
crowdsensing
digital ecosystems
Human-centric wireless sensor network
interaction requirements
modeling language
Proposals
Security
Sensors
Software
Unified modeling language
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Summary:The recent growth of social networking and sensing applications has enabled people to perform crowd computing. In turn, this activity has opened several opportunities to address people's needs in various application areas, such as tourism, security, entertainment and emergency response. However, the design of these applications has also brought several challenges to software designers. Since users of these systems interact among them in heterogeneous physical scenarios, their interactions should be formally considered in the design of these applications in order to determine whether or not the services embedded in the system are suitable to support those interactions. The lack of guidelines to address this modeling issue not only jeopardizes the suitability of these applications, but also implies the services provided by the system can be evaluated only after implementation, which is clearly risky and expensive. This article proposes an initial modeling language that allows software designers to address this challenge through the representation of the interaction among users of a system. The interaction model represented using the proposed language allows designers to evaluate, at the design time, the information flow and the availability of interaction supporting services in the system. The usability and usefulness of the proposal are shown using a running example.
DOI:10.1109/CSCWD.2014.6846923