Volume 2 - Issue 1 – 2
A Context-aware Model to Support Ubiquitous Group Decision Making
- Joao Carneiro
GECAD† Porto, Portuga
jmrc@isep.ipp.pt
- Joao Laranjeira
GECAD† Porto, Portuga
jpcl@isep.ipp.pt
- Goreti Marreiros
GECAD† ISEP‡ Porto, Portugal
mgt@isep.ipp.pt
- Carlos Freitas
GECAD† Porto, Portuga
cff@isep.ipp.pt
- Ricardo Santos
GECAD† ESTGF§ Felgueiras, Portugal
rjs@estgf.ipp.pt
Keywords: Ubiquitous Computing, Group Decision Support Systems, Emotions, Context-aware, Multi-Agent Systems, Affective Computing
Abstract
Due to the costs to create conditions that allow participants to meet in the same place at the same
time (time, travel, etc.) the ubiquitous Group Decision Support Systems appeared allowing decision-
makers to contribute with their ideas to the decision process anywhere and anytime. In this paper
is proposed a model which enables decision-makers to contribute with their ideas to the decision
process anywhere and anytime. It is a context-aware model which allows obtaining values of certain
typical variables of the affective context (emotions and mood) and to transform those values in ad-
vises. So it enables the group reaches more easily the decision, strengthening the satisfaction of each
member with the decision made. Also here are presented the architecture and mechanisms which
could be used in the development of a prototype based on the presented model.