| Columbia University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof Steve Feiner Gabor Blasko | Chandra Narayanaswami MT Raghunath | ||||
| User interfaces for wearables · Project Page | ||||||
| Carnegie-Mellon University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Dan Siewiorek Asim Smailagic | |||||
| Application Models for Pervasive Computing Overview: The potential of wireless pervasive devices is enormous. A typical scenario is a system that can deliver messages and notifications to you in an "appropriate" fashion -- calling you on your cellphone when it is an urgent message, popping up a message on your PDA when you have your PDA with you and when a phone call would be disturbing, or sending you email for lower-priority items. Unfortunately, when attempting to build such systems one faces a typical chicken-and-egg problem: it is inordinately hard to write such a system without any supporting infrastructure, but also extremely problematical to design infrastructure without any supporting applications. To address this problem, researchers at IBM designed and implemented a "strawman" middleware component, suited for implementing pervasive wireless applications. This term, students in a senior design course at CMU will use this middleware to implement a number of applications and network services. The experience and feedback gained from the students will be used to iteratively improve and strengthen the middleware. The CMU course has an enrollment of thirty-five students, with mixture of CS, EE and HCI backgrounds. One of the projects is going to support an audiocentric interface, using text-to-speech network services. Another group is implementing a location service to be used by two other application groups. This location service will gather information about the physical position of devices (with the user's permission) via a variety of methods, such as triangulation on base stations. The gathered information will then be translated into a standard form, one more useful for end-user applications. We expect that the students will create highly original and interesting applications, and provide extremely useful feedback about the IBM middleware. | ||||||
| MIT | ||||||
| Completed | Stephen Intille | Claudio Pinhanez Gopal Pingali | ||||
| Home applications for steerable projectors using IBM's Everywhere Display · Project Page · Everywhere Display | ||||||
| Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof. David Malach | Yaakov Navon | ||||
| Restoration and Decoding of Barcode Images from Low Resolution Video Frames. One of the target application is to use the mobile phone camera to capture barcode image and to decoded it. The decoding barcode data is used to supply further information to the user.
The resolution of the current mobile phone camera is very low, and in order to get higher quality images required for barcode decoding, we using video frames sequences. · Project Page | ||||||
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof. Roy Campbell | Claudio Pinhanez Gopal Pingali | ||||
| Integration of Everywhere Display to the Gaia infrastructure · Project Page | ||||||
| WINLAB/ Rutgers University | ||||||
| Ongoing | Prof. D. Raychaudhuri | Arup Acharya | ||||
| ORBIT is a joint academia/industry project funded by the NSF for $5.4 million for 4years for building a testbed for next-generation wireless networks along with a set of experimental packages. Participants include Rutgers/WINLAB (lead), Columbia and Princeton from academia and IBM Research, Bell Labs and Thomson Multimedia from the industry. IBM Research's participation comprises of infrastructure-less/ peer-to-peer SIP-based VoIP and Instant Messaging, SIP-based mobility architecture for dual-mode devices and 802.11 based wireless mesh /ad-hoc networks. · Project Page | ||||||