An important problem in pervasive computing is how to create and maintain manageable collections of pervasive resources appropriate for disparate and typically nomadic users. This article describes physical registration, a new, human-centric mechanism for constructing collections of resources in the form of electronic directories. Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. The entities can be Web resources accessible over a network, like printers, projectors, picture frames, or storage devices. They can also be Web resources correlated with objects like books or telephones that are not themselves accessible over a network. Our article describes and motivates the method, then compares two implementations we have constructed.

Barton, J.; Kindberg, T.; Sadalgi, S.

An important problem in pervasive computing is how to create and maintain manageable collections of pervasive resources appropriate for disparate and typically nomadic users. This article describes physical registration, a new, human-centric mechanism for constructing collections of resources in the form of electronic directories. Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. The entities can be Web resources accessible over a network, like printers, projectors, picture frames, or storage devices. They can also be Web resources correlated with objects like books or telephones that are not themselves accessible over a network. Our article describes and motivates the method, then compares two implementations we have constructed.

dc.contributor.author	Barton, J.
dc.contributor.author	Kindberg, T.
dc.contributor.author	Sadalgi, S.
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-05T11:00:30Z
dc.date.issued	Physical registration: Configuring electronic directories using handheld devices
dc.description.abstract	2002
dc.identifier.citation	IEEE Wireless Communications, 2002, 9, 1, pp. 30-38
dc.identifier.issn	15361284
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2002.986456
dc.identifier.uri	https://idr.nitk.ac.in/handle/123456789/28007
dc.subject	Mobile computing
dc.subject	Personal digital assistants
dc.subject	Systems analysis
dc.subject	Web browsers
dc.subject	World Wide Web
dc.subject	Electronic directories
dc.subject	Pervasive computing
dc.subject	Physical registration
dc.subject	Wireless telecommunication systems
dc.title	An important problem in pervasive computing is how to create and maintain manageable collections of pervasive resources appropriate for disparate and typically nomadic users. This article describes physical registration, a new, human-centric mechanism for constructing collections of resources in the form of electronic directories. Users identify physical objects using sensor-equipped wirelessly networked handheld devices to build directories of virtual "entities" associated with those objects. The entities can be Web resources accessible over a network, like printers, projectors, picture frames, or storage devices. They can also be Web resources correlated with objects like books or telephones that are not themselves accessible over a network. Our article describes and motivates the method, then compares two implementations we have constructed.

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