Re: User Agent - More Discussion

Interesting! Effectively a sensor (or network of sensors) can act as the
input side of a user agent for a specific environment in which they are
placed.  Sensors which might detect some physical characteristic/state of
human activity (such as touch, temperature, retinal scan, motion, etc) could
have implications for accessibility.

mark

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jeanne Spellman <jeanne@w3.org> wrote:

> Unless I am misunderstanding, a sensor network would be more of an
> assistive technology to me, but I'll look into it more....
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> Thanks for being so diligent in watching what other groups are doing and
> checking their applicability to us.  I really appreciate it.
> jeanne
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> Simon Harper wrote:
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>> Hi there,
>> so I see that the w3c have created a sensor network activity...
>> The mission of the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, part of the
>> Incubator Activity, is to begin the formal process of producing ontologies
>> that define the capabilities of sensors and sensor networks, and to develop
>> semantic annotations of a key language used by services based sensor
>> networks.
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>> Which go me to thinking - is a sensor with a 'hard' interface (buttons and
>> lights) a user agent? And is the hardware / software controlling such a
>> network a user agent?
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>> Cheers
>> Si.
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