Mobile multi-service smart room client: Initial study for multi-platform development

Smart Room provides a service set to automate such research and educational activity as conferences, lectures, and meetings. For human participants the services are accessible via mobile personal end-user devices. A mobile device hosts a smart room client, which registers the participant in the smart room space, shares her/his personal data and context, and accesses available services in the room. This paper reports recent progress of the smart room client development. Our key objectives are (1) development unification for various mobile platforms, where Windows Phone and Symbian are our reference cases; (2) support in the user interface of personalized access to the important services from a large set. Our initial study shows that objective (1) is an architecture design issue and our multi-platform development is based on tradeoffs between native mechanisms and portable solutions. We achieve objective (2) using HTML5 features, supported by many modern mobile platforms.