A Decentralized System for Privacy-Preserving Context Exchange: Facilitating a Better Work-Life Balance
Key: DS14-1
Author: Rahul Dwarakanath, Ralf Steinmetz
Date: October 2014
Kind: In proceedings
Book title: Network Protocols (ICNP), 2014 IEEE 22nd International Conference on
Keywords: Distributed systems; context data distribution; privacy concerns; work-life balance
Abstract: In recent times, the working society has been plagued by a work-life imbalance as a result of the added flexibility introduced by advanced information and communication technology. A technically viable approach to improve one's work-life balance is to control the communication mediums depending on the respective user contexts, and consequently help the users maintain their concentration. To achieve this, an important prerequisite is the efficient exchange of context information among the users. Therefore, this paper motivates a novel decentralized approach which facilitates context data exchange as per prevailing conditions on privacy and confidentiality. We discuss the governing criteria surrounding user contexts and draw the main design challenges with respect to the proposed system, accordingly.
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