Experiments of context-aware collaborative platform in rural living labs

In this paper, we present the results of experiments of a collaborative context-aware framework for rural living labs. The proposed framework has been setting up according to a development process that we highlight in this work. This platform has been designed using the Open Service Oriented Architecture (OSOA) approach in order to enable advanced collaborative working environments. It is, also, focused on the bus component that acts as a connector for the different living labs. The bus architecture gives the advantage to facilitate the dynamic integration of living lab services using discovery and binding methods. It guarantees, also, the large scale interconnection of all the living labs. Building such framework requires resolving a main issue of the design approach. Moreover, we experiment the use of such platform in rural community of fishery sector. The work presented in this paper is one of the main results of the Collaboration@Rural (C@R) European research project: a collaboration platform for working and living in rural areas (FP6-2005-IST-5-03492) that aims to build a platform of networked living labs for context-aware collaborative working in rural areas.