CyberDesk
Version 2.0
Anind K. Dey
Gregory Abowd
Chris Atkeson
The desktop metaphor is getting old, but what is going to replace it? We're
not sure, but one suggestion is that it will be replaced by an active browser
metaphor. With Internet-savvy languages such as Java, we can start to think
about what it would mean to use an active browser as the new metaphor for
interaction.
On this page, we have accumulated some of the projects we are working
on in the FCE group to realize a vision of a new interaction paradigm based
on an active browser. Most of these projects are examples of Java applets
that would form part of a productivity suite.
What we have not yet achieved in these projects is our dream about freeing
the user from the desktop. Rather than have the user chase after the interface,
the interface should have to come find the user. Some of our other projects
in the FCE group better demonstrate that, but as soon as we have a Java
Virtual Machine sitting on portable device, we can really start to take
advantage of some of these tools.
How can the web serve as our desktop (where we store information and
run applications from)?
Versions of CyberDesk
Version for use outside Georgia Tech domain
Read/write versions available only within the Georgia Tech domain
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JavaDeskII
(with the "IntelliButton" and TypeConverters!)
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email browser
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contact manager
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send email
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goto a URL
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search string using Altavista
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search Usenet for an email address using DejaNews
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lookup email address for a name using WhoWhere
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lookup mailing address and phone number for a name using Switchboard
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lookup name in contact manager
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JavaDesk
(with the "IntelliButton")
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email browser
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contact manager
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send email
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goto a URL
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search string using Altavista
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search news articles for an email address using DejaNews
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lookup mailing address and phone number for a name using Switchboard
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lookup name in contact manager
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CyberDesk
(old version with hard-wired buttons)
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email browser
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contact manager
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lookup mailing address and phone number for a name using Switchboard
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search name using Altavista
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lookup homepage for a name using MetaCrawler
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lookup name in contact manager
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search news articles for an email address using DejaNews
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search email address using Altavista
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send email
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goto a URL
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search URL using Altavista
CyberDesk and Related Papers
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Context-Aware Computing: The CyberDesk Project.
(HTML)
Anind K. Dey.
In Proceedings of AAAI '98 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments
(AAAI
'98 IE), pp. 51-54, March 23-25 1998.
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Applying Dynamic Integration as a Software Infrastructure for Context-Aware
Computing.
(abstract,
postscript,
pdf,
HTML)
Gregory D. Abowd, Anind K. Dey, Andy Wood.
GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-18. September 1997.
Submitted to ICSE '98.
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CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self-Integrating Context-Aware
Services.
(abstract,
pdf,
HTML,)
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Andy Wood.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces (IUI '98), pages
47-54, January 6-9, 1998.
Extended version in Knowledge-Based Systems 11(1). pp. 3-13,
September 1998.
(abstract,
pdf)
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CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self-Integrating Ubiquitous Software
Services.
(abstract,
postscript,
pdf,
HTML)
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Mike Pinkerton, Andy Wood.
GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-10. April 1997.
Submitted to UIST '97.
Demo in the Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on User
Interface Software and Technology (UIST'
97), pp.75-76, October 14-17, 1997.
(abstract,
pdf)
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CyberDesk: Automated Integration of Desktop and Network Services.
(abstract,
pdf,
HTML)
Andy Wood, Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd.
Technical Note in the Proceedings of 1997 conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems (CHI '97),
pages 552-553, 1997.
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CyberDesk: The Use of Perception in Context-Aware Computing.
(HTML)
Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd.
Extended abstract presented as a poster in the Proceedings of 1997
Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI
'97), pages 26-27, October, 1997.
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Ubiquitous Computing: Defining an HCI Research Agenda for an Emerging
Interaction Paradigm.
(abstract,
postscript,
pdf)
Daniel Salber, Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd.
GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-98-01. February 1998.
Submitted to ECHI '98.
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Context-awareness in Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing.
(abstract,
postscript,
pdf,
HTML)
Gregory D. Abowd, Anind K. Dey, Rob Orr, Jason Brotherton.
GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-97-11. May 1997.
Abbreviated version presented as a poster in the Proceedings of
1st International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC
'97), pp. 179-180 , October, 1997.
(HTML
version of poster).
Extended version in Virtual Reality Society International Journal
3, pp. 200-211, 1999.
(abstract,
pdf,
postscript)
CyberDesk Services
Click here
for a list of all the services available for use with CyberDesk.
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Desktop Services (6 of them)
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group calendaring system
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2 mail browsers
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simple calendar
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contact manager
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simple notepad
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Network Services (>80 services)
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WWW searches for selected text
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Usenet searches for selected text
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phone number and address lookup
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email lookup
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news search
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references
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map retrieval
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city information
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image/sound search
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others
Sample CyberDesk Code Segments (for the adventurous)
The following code
samples were described in the
paper
submitted to UIST '97.
Mini-projects Integrated (or to be Integrated) into CyberDesk
Related Work
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