Modeling NFC-triggered User Interactions with Simple Services in a Smart Environment

Antonio P. Volpentesta, Nicola Frega

2015

Abstract

NFC is an emerging wireless technology that can enable users to interact with smart objects in a smart environment. NFC applications have been developed to provide services like ticketing, access control, tourism information extension, voucher redemption and contactless payment. The interaction technique is a sort of “tap-and-go” as it is currently employed in smartcard usage for travel operations and workspace access/logging. Employing a recently introduced framework for human interaction with mobiquitous services, we present a model of NFC-triggered user interactions with simple context-awareness services in a smart environment. The rationale is to provide a conceptual tool for both an appropriate communication among NFC ecosystem stakeholders and the interface design of NFC apps with a generic applicability. Lastly, we discuss the application of the model in a project which required the design of NFC-based interactions with services for car parking management in a city area.

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P. Volpentesta A. and Frega N. (2015). Modeling NFC-triggered User Interactions with Simple Services in a Smart Environment . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-098-7, pages 96-104. DOI: 10.5220/0005377500960104


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Antonio P. Volpentesta and Nicola Frega},
title={Modeling NFC-triggered User Interactions with Simple Services in a Smart Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={96-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005377500960104},
isbn={978-989-758-098-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Modeling NFC-triggered User Interactions with Simple Services in a Smart Environment
SN - 978-989-758-098-7
AU - P. Volpentesta A.
AU - Frega N.
PY - 2015
SP - 96
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0005377500960104