Salzburg Research presents:

BlueVote - A Ubiquitous Audience Voting Service

BlueVote is an audience voting service for attendees to vote for eligible artefacts. At UbiComp 2007, BlueVote is deployed for electing the best full-paper presentation.

BlueVote is associated with the MobilityLab.

Abstract

BlueVote is an cost-efficient, easy to install, and easy to use audience voting system using ad-hoc wireless P2P technology for providing a ubiquitous voting service to an audience. In this paper, we propose the BlueVote service which runs on top of the scalable underlying BlueDragon system. The BlueDragon system was initially designed as a ubiquitous communication infrastructure to distribute information to people in mobile environments (such as events). The major design goal was to reach the highest flexibility in terms of network layout, ad-hoc availability of services and scalability. This goal is achieved by combining different wireless transmission technologies, a P2P-based communication infrastructure, and a service-oriented architecture using OSGi. Consequently, the system can be easily extended with any new service. Hence, BlueDragon seems to be also a highly appropriate candidate for the implementation of an audience voting service which we called BlueVote.

The Voting Process Details

Only a Bluetooth-enabled device (e.g. a mobile phone) is necessary
At the registration desk, every attendee is assigned a unique BlueVote-ID
During the conference sessions, images representing papers (see below) are transferred to every Bluetooth device within reach
Voting is done by simply sending back the according image by Bluetooth to any one of our access points (denoted as "BlueVoteXX")
Attendees can vote for their preferred paper presentation at most once as soon as they got that image. Votes can be cast at any time during the conference.
The system evaluates the votes in real-time
The results will be presented at the closing session of UbiComp 2007

Some Technical Details (Poster)

The BlueVote Audience Voting Service is based on a ubiquitous information platform. This platform is an interconnection of technologies adopted for mobile computing:

Completely based on wireless technology (Bluetooth and WiFi)
Data traffic is routed by mobile ad-hoc network protocols
Middleware infrastructure is based on Peer-to-Peer Concepts
Service infrastructure complies with the OSGi standard
Additional business services can be deployed and administered during run-time
Information exchange between users' devices and the information platform is accomplished via Bluetooth-Push

The BlueVote Team of Salzburg Research (supported by student volunteers) will be available during the whole UbiComp 2007. We are happy to answer questions or provide information.

You can find us at the BlueVote Information Desk (registration area) or consult BlueVote information sheet.

Project Team

Manfred Bortenschlager, Thomas Fichtel, Nicolas Göll, Michael Hufnagl, Daniel Mitterdorfer, Karl Rehrl, and Harald Rieser

Contact

Manfred Bortenschlager
Mobile and Web-based Information Systems [MOWI]

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