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%T Ubiquitous Access to Site Specific Services by Mobile Devices: the Process View.
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%A Jon Kerridge, Kevin Chalmers
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%E Peter H. Welch, Jon Kerridge, Frederick R. M. Barnes
%B Communicating Process Architectures 2006
%X The increasing availability of tri\-band mobile devices with
mobile phone, wi\-fi and Bluetooth capability means that the
opportunities for increased access by mobile devices to
services provided within a smaller locality becomes
feasible. This increase in availability might, however, be
tempered by users switching off their devices as they are
overloaded with a multitude of messages from a variety of
sources. A wide range of opportunities can be realised if we
can provide a managed environment in which people can access
wireless services specific to a particular physical site or
location in a ubiquitous manner, independent of the service,
and they can also choose from which services they are
willing to receive messages. These opportunities range from
retail promotions as a person walks down the street, to
shopper specific offers as people enter stores that utilise
reward card systems, to information about bus arrivals at a
bus stop, additional curatorial information within a museum
and access to health records within a hospital environment.
The CPA paradigm offers a real opportunity to provide such
capability with mobile processes, rather than the current
approach that, typically, gives users access to web pages.