Cognitive Resource Aware Service Provisioning

Abstract

The vision of spontaneously delivering ubiquitous services to mobile users stands on the tradition of reflecting functional and non-functional requirements. Nevertheless, existing approaches do not reason in advance about the potential conflicts of mobility activities with human-computer interaction based tasks. These conflicts may burden the user with unexpected interruptions that overload the central human-cognitive capacity. This paper introduces a novel cognitive engineering mechanism to optimize service functionality co ordinations during runtime in accordance with situational demands of cognitive resources. We base our resource aware approach for service coordination optimization on two theories from cognitive psychology - the human-processing system theory of Navon and the multiple resource theory of Wickens. On top of this psychological background, we introduce a specific mechanism for varying service co ordinations.