Mobile Commerce, or m-Commerce, is about the explosion of applications
and services that are becoming accessible from Internet-enabled mobile
devices. It involves new technologies, services and business models. It
is quite different from traditional e-Commerce. Mobile phones
impose very different constraints than desktop computers. But they also
open the door to a slew of new applications and services. They follow
you wherever you go, making it possible to look for
a nearby restaurant, stay in touch with colleagues, or pay for items at a store.
As the Internet finds its way into our purses or shirt pockets, the devices we use to access it are becoming more personal too. Already today, mobile phones know the phone numbers of our friends and colleagues. They are starting to track our location. Tomorrow, they will replace our wallets and credit cards. One day, they may very well turn into intelligent assistants capable of anticipating many of our wishes and needs, such as automatically arranging for taxis to come and pick us up after business meetings or providing us with summaries of relevant news and messages left by colleagues. But, for all these changes to happen, key issues of interoperability, usability, security, and privacy still need to be addressed.
In particular, our Laboratory is researching new technologies and applying user-centered design principles in the development of solutions to reconcile context-awareness and privacy in mobile and pervasive computing environments:
| Dr.
Norman M. Sadeh Dr. Paul Drielsma Dr.
Jinghai Rao Dr. Alberto Sardinha Dr. Umut Topkara Patrick Kelley Ian Fette Madhu Prabaker |
Jacob Albertson David Hacker Justin Pincar Michael Weber Linda Francona Former
Team Members: |
CMU's Mobile Commerce Lab offers industry the following opportunities for collaboration:
Graduate student sponsorship
Lab Internships
Sponsored research projects
For further details, please contact Norman M. Sadeh
Mobile and Pervasive Computing Services - offered in the Spring semester
Industry Short Courses & Executive Education:
- Fall 2008 Sessions: (click here for program details and registration)
- Mobile and Pervasive Computing Services for Tech Executives: Week of September 8, 2008
- Mobile and Pervasive Computing Services for Tech Executives: Week of November 10, 2008
M. Prabaker, J. Rao, I. Fette, P. Kelley, L. Cranor, J. Hong, and N. Sadeh, "Understanding and Capturing People's Privacy Policies in a People Finder Application", 2007 Ubicomp Workshop on Privacy, Austria, Sept. 2007
Jinghai Rao and Norman Sadeh. "Interleaving Semantic Web Reasoning and Service Discovery to Enforce Context-Sensitive Security and Privacy Policies ", School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-113, July 2005.
Norman Sadeh, Fabien Gandon and Oh Buyng Kwon ., “Ambient Intelligence: The MyCampus Experience”, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Technical Report CMU-ISRI-05-123, July 2005
Gandon, F. and Sadeh, N., “Semantic Web Technologies to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness”, Web Semantics Journal. Vol. 1, No. 3, 2004.
Gandon, F. and Sadeh, N., “A Semantic eWallet to Reconcile Privacy and Context Awareness”, Second International Semantic Web Conference, Florida, October 2003.
Norman M. Sadeh, m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models, Wiley, 2002
S-C Chou, W-T Hsieh, F. Gandon and N. Sadeh, Semantic Web Technologies for Context-Aware Museum Tour Guide Applications, WAMIS05.
M. Sheshagiri, N. Sadeh and F. Gandon, Using Semantic Web Services for Context-Aware Mobile Applications MobiSys 2004 Workshop on Context Awareness, Boston, June 2004.
N.Miller, G. Judd, U. Hengartner,
F. Gandon, P. Steenkiste, I-H Meng, M-W Feng and N. Sadeh, Context-Aware
Computing Using a Shared Contextual Information Service Pervasive
2004, "Hot Spots", Vienna, April 2004.