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Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing

Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing. Jason I. Hong jasonh at cs cmu edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004/readings.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004. Ubiquitous Computing is Coming. Devices in all form factors Sensors everywhere

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Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing

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  1. Research Topics in Ubiquitous Computing Jason I. Hong jasonh at cs cmu edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004/readings.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004

  2. Ubiquitous Computing is Coming Devices in all form factors Sensors everywhere Rich variety of inputs and outputs All wirelessly connected Integrate computation, communication, and sensing with physical world

  3. Ubiquitous Computing is ComingDevices in All Form Factors

  4. Ubiquitous Computing is ComingDevices in All Form Factors

  5. Ubiquitous Computing is ComingSensors Everywhere E911 Find Friend Find a Place

  6. Ubiquitous Computing is ComingSensors Everywhere • RFIDs already in greater use than you may realize • Wal-Mart mandate of Jan 2005

  7. Read my important email Ubiquitous Computing is Coming Rich Variety of Inputs and Outputs

  8. Ubiquitous Computing is Coming All Wirelessly Connected • Short-range wireless for consumers • Bluetooth, HomeRF, 802.11 • Near Field Networks • Personal Area Networks • Transmit data thru the body

  9. Just Where Are We Heading? • Ubicomp field currently very disparate • Systems, networking, HCI, Machine Learning, … • Different communities, different vocabulary, different papers • Goals of this course • Establish a common foundation for ubicomp research • Help advance state of the art • Difficult, but many opportunities for defining the field!

  10. Who Am I? • Undergrad at Georgia Tech, CS and Math • Cyberguide, first mobile tour guide • PhD in Computer Science from Berkeley • Dissertation work on privacy and ubicomp systems • New faculty at HCII • Interests in ubicomp, focusing on privacy, rapid prototyping, end-user programming, and deployability issues • Office at NSH 3613 • jasonh at cs cmu edu

  11. Who Are You? • Name • Background • PhD, MS, or undergrad? • What year? • Which unit? (ie CSD, HCII, CALD, RI, etc) • Interests • What kinds of research are you doing (if applicable)? • What do you want to get out of this course?

  12. Structure of this Course • Research = analysis + synthesis • Analysis: understanding other’s work, the good and the bad • Difficulty is that there are few provably correct answers • Synthesis: finding new ways to advance state of the art • Literature survey • Mini-projects • Course project

  13. Literature Survey • Read, analyze, critique papers • All research projects fail in some way • Successful projects get some interesting results anyway • Class preparation • Reading papers is hard, especially at first • Read before class • Brief review of each paper (bring a printout) • ½ page or less • 2 most important things about that paper • 1 major flaw (or ideas for extension / verification) • Will see if can switch to Blackboard online discussions

  14. Class Format • Each person will do 10-20min presentation for a day • Overview of readings • Highlight what you think are interesting points • Outline some questions for discussion • Rest of time devoted to discussion • What are the problems this paper addresses? • How well does it address them? Realistic? Deployable? • How to extend this research? • Grad class, material may be controversial • I’ll do occasional presentations too

  15. Overview of Course Topics • Visions and Challenges of Ubiquitous Computing • Context-Awareness • Location sensing, uncertainty, prototyping tools • Applications • Home, workspaces, smart mobs, developing countries • Privacy • System Architectures • Sensor networks, RFIDs

  16. Mini-Projects • Small projects to give you a flavor of ubicomp • A few days of work • Encouraged to work in groups • Basis of mini-projects • Topiary • Place Lab

  17. Mini-ProjectsTopiary • Quickly create mockups of location-based apps • “Run” these mockups with real users to get feedback

  18. A B C PlaceLab for Acquiring Location • PlaceLab location via local database of WiFi Points • Unique WiFi MAC Address -> Latitude, Longitude • Periodically update your local copy • Works indoors and • in urban canyons • Works with encrypted nodes • No special equipment • Privacy-sensitive • Rides the WiFi wave

  19. PlaceLab SF Bay Area ~60000 Nodes (~4 Megs)

  20. PlaceLab University of California Berkeley Berkeley Campus ~1000 Nodes

  21. Course Project • Do a small piece of real research • Teams of 2-3 • “Conference paper” as deliverable • Want best papers to be published in a real conference • (With some extra work) • Will put some project ideas online at website • You can choose your own projects as well

  22. Summary of Your Responsibilities • Read papers before class • ½ page summaries for each paper • Signup to do a presentation • Mini-projects • Course project

  23. Next Course • Monday is Labor Day, no class until next Wed • Readings • The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, by Mark Weiser • Synthetic Serendipity, by Vernor Vinge • Mike Villa's World, by Harry Goldstein • Only two summaries for next time • One for Weiser’s paper • One for Synthetic Serendipity and Mike Villa’s World • Will see if I can get coffee, tea, and snacks

  24. Important Questions to Think About • Original vision of ubicomp written in 1991! • Why don’t we have it today? What would it take? • How to manage this complexity? • Things are barely interoperable today • Can barely manage the flow of info today • What are the core devices? • Buy it at Home Depot, plug it in, and you’re good to go! • What are the core services of this world? • Equivalent of Google, Yahoo, and Ebay? • What are the programming abstractions? • Is this really a world we want to live in?

  25. The Future of Ubicomp?

  26. Questions? • Office at NSH 3613 • jasonh@cs.cmu.edu • http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/courses/ubicomp-f2004

  27. Bootstrapping – Initial Apps Web Page Location Auto-Fill • Auto-fill location info on web sites PageModification URL =http://www.starbucks.com/ txtCity =CityName txtState =RegionCode txtZip =ZIPCode MapQuest Starbucks

  28. What does ubicomp enable? New Forms of Entertainment

  29. One Vision of Ubicomp We will reach a point where the combination of powerful processors, limitless data-storage capacity, ubiquitous sensor networks, and deeply embedded user interfaces will create a bond between human and machine “so intimate that users may reasonably be considered superhumanly intelligent.” - Vernor Vinge

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