Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sussex
Department Name: Sch of Engineering and Informatics
Abstract
Much commerce in the UK happens in more informal marketplaces than in High Street shops, such as flea markets, record and antique fairs, and auctions. Our aim is to investigate how we decide to trust in an interaction within these marketplaces, and using this information, build technologies and software to support these interactions, ranging from techniques to allow easy tracking of inventories through to enabling participation in distributed auctions. By studying how trust is used in these arenas, we believe we can make a fundamental contribution to how we can build pervasive computing technology that both is, and shows itself to be trustworthy.
Publications
Krukow K
(2008)
Trust models in ubiquitous computing.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Robinson J
(2008)
Trust Management II
Robinson J
(2008)
Composing software services in the pervasive computing environment: Languages or APIs?
in Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Krukow K
(2008)
A logical framework for history-based access control and reputation systems
in Journal of Computer Security
ElSalamouny E
(2009)
An analysis of the exponential decay principle in probabilistic trust models
in Theoretical Computer Science
Light A
(2010)
Chutney and relish
Stanier J
(2010)
Can we use trust in online dating?
in Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications
Naicken S
(2012)
Trust Management VI
Fleming S
(2012)
A deniable and efficient question and answer service over ad hoc social networks
in Information Retrieval
| Description | This project developed and showed how trust can be instantiated in spatially located software to help the development of effective commerce. We developed and deployed a handheld software for deployment within farmers' markets, where QRCodes on the stalls could be used to locate the information relevant to that vendor. This was deployed in Farmers' Markets in Hove and Lewes, and was shown to be effective. Further work on the deployment of a kiosk for directing shoppers around a local shopping area further deepened our understanding of trust. Finally we developed a well-grounded mechanism for using trust in the construction of publish/subscribe trees. |
| Exploitation Route | The evolution of handheld computing has overtaken our original approach of using QRCodes to locate information. However, our approach to building trusted pub/sub trees remains sound, and we look forward to picking this up again in the development of continuing work on DTNs for phones. |
| Sectors | Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism |
| Description | King's College London |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2006 |
| Description | University College London |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2006 |