Section: Application Domains

Introduction

Building on our previous work, we are studying software development in the context of communication services, in their most general forms. That is, going beyond human-to-human interactions, and covering human-to-machine and machine-to-machine interactions. Software systems revolving around such forms of communications can be found in a number of areas, including telephony, pervasive computing, and assisted living; we view these software systems as coordinating the communication between networked entities, regardless of their nature: human, hardware or software. In this context, our three main application domains are pervasive computing, internet of things and assistive computing.