A Mobile Application Framework for Rapid Integration of Ubiquitous Web Services

This paper describes a mobile application framework with multimodal dialogues to integrate ubiquitous web services. We implement a tourism widget based on Android platform with dynamic HTTP-based REST service on Internet by following the proposed framework. Generally, to obtain linked data or resource from external HTTP-based service could be as simple as the establishment of remote services with an internal data repository supervised by producers. We discuss the complexity and usability of integration between the widget and internal or external web services in the framework. The widget provides not only the tour-based inquiry services by web services but also the maintenance of individual tour schemes with a number of dialogue interfaces. Three categories of components are constructed to process user inquiry, then to obtain responses through the usability of web services or from local backup dataset. As experience results, data exchange with different formats between the widget and server-side web services are emulated.