@inproceedings{d50d7277b4ed491da079df88d4081843,
title = "An extendible communication as a service platform for wearables and future-oriented devices",
abstract = "Wearables are suitable devices for communication, navigation, and orientation, since they are easy to wear, and comfortable companions. A demerit is that most of them need to be connected to a master device or a server that provides the content. In this paper we propose and evaluate a prototype of a communication as a service (CaaS) platform that enables any wearable to be connected with. The architecture, and the implementation of the communication platform are described. Real probands were acquired for the evaluation of the CaaS system. The evaluation is based on communication tasks that were executed by the probands and are compared to the situation without the assistance of wearables and the communication platform in the background. A wellknown usability measure, namely the Kullback-Leibler divergence is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the CaaS platform that increases the usage of wearables for communication tasks by a factor of 2.58.",
keywords = "Architecture, Communication as a Service (CaaS) platform, Evaluation, Usability, Wearables",
author = "Roman Englert and J{\"o}rg Muschiol",
year = "2016",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)",
publisher = "Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)",
pages = "1837--1850",
editor = "Mayr, {Heinrich C.} and Martin Pinzger",
booktitle = "INFORMATIK 2016 - Proceedings",
address = "Germany",
note = "46. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Informatik - 46th Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society, INFORMATIK 2016 ; Conference date: 26-09-2016 Through 30-09-2016",
}