Future Computing Environments Seminar

CS 8013

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:30-6:00pm in CoC 102

Moderators

This quarter, we are expanding the FCE Seminar to two days to include the FCE-sponsored HackFest activities. On Tuesdays, we will have the usual seminar and reading group with discussion. Thursdays will be devoted to on-going and quarter-long projects in ubiquitous computing.

The general focus for this quarter will be reaching out to other parts of the Georgia Tech campus. There is a lot of relevant activity on campus that can enhance the vision of the Future Computing Environments Group. We are going to try this quarter to find out more about those other campus groups to encourage us to take better advantage of the facilities and skills within our immediate environment. The hope is that this quarter will lead to a number of collaborations with folks across campus helping us to make Georgia Tech a center for ubiquitous and future computing environments.

Schedule

9/25

Introduction
Gregory Abowd

9/30

Summer summaries and FCE overview
Jason Ellis, Jason Brotherton, Chris Atkeson

Jason Ellis and Jason Brotherton will discuss work they did over the summer at Xerox PARC and Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Labs (FX-PAL). Pointers to relevant work are below.

Chris Atkeson will talk about the FCE activities in general as he prepares to give such an overview talk when he goes to Japan in October.

Papers/pointers

Jason Ellis will talk about Audio Aura, an audio-augmented reality system. SUBMITED TO CHI FOR PUBLICATION - PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!
Jason Brotherton will talk about Ink Interchange, a system for cross- platform exchange of ink and a prototype note-taking system on a Pilot PDA that uses this system. ALL PAPERS HAVE BEEN SUBMITED TO CHI FOR PUBLICATION - PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE!
- Abstract - a brief overview of the system and its motivation.
- Demonstration - a sample (paper) demonstration of the system.
- NotePals - full paper describing the Pilot application and its interaction with the system.
For those unfamiliar with general FCE activities, go to the FCE Home Page for information on projects and publications to help seed Chris' discussion.

10/2

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

planning the PC-104 pen-based computer
roundtable discussion of project ideas

10/7

More summer reports
Rob Orr and Roy Rodenstein

Rob Orr will talk about Red Dwarf and Dark Star, IR communication devices he designed at Xerox PARC that facilitate mobile interaction.

Here's the abstract:
"Dark Star and Red Dwarf -- Infrared Communication Devices in Support of Mobile Communication"
This summer I designed two devices to support infrared communication between mobile devices and the network. The first, Red Dwarf, is a general purpose infrared interface for the US Robotics Pilot. The second device, Dark Star, is an infrared to Ethernet bridge. In this talk, I will discuss the design goals for these two devices, cover how we met these goals in creating these devices, and outline the difficult issues we encountered along the way.
Here are the Powerpoint slides: HTML Version
Background Reading: Hewlett Packard IR Data Link Design Guide
Other Useful Links:

Infrared Data Association
Hewlett Packard IR Group
USR Pilot Developer's Zone
The Pilot Page

Roy Rodenstein will talk about Ghostwriter, graphical displays to give users context during text editing, which he worked on this summer at Xerox PARC.

Here's the abstract:
"Ghostwriter: Behind-the-Scenes Text-Editing Support"
Today's word-processors are good at creating professional-looking documents, but they often don't offer much support for the writing process itself. Ghostwriter uses graphical effects to take steps toward providing the user with useful scaffolding during text-editing, such as using real-world paper effects to convey information about the working document. I will discuss some related work in this are and then delve into some of the document properties that Ghostwriter can depict for writers
Background Reading: "Translucent History," Genau, Kramer, CHI'95 Short Paper
Other Useful Papers:

"Edit Wear and Read Wear," Hill, Hollan, Wroblewski, McCandless, CHI'92
"Timewarp: Techniques for Autonomous Collaboration," Edwards, Mynatt, CHI'97
"Dynomite: A Dynamically Organized Ink and Audio Notebook," Wilcox, Schilit, Sawhney, CHI'97

10/9

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

review of Domisilica project
LCC aeolian project We will take a field trip to LCC to see a wind interface that Mike Koetter and John Tolva built at the end of spring term this year. This was a project to see if we could build a non-tangible MIDI interface. But maybe you all will have some ideas for future applications. If not, well, we can always cannibalize the parts for hackfest.

10/14

Classroom 2000 progress(captured presentation)
A multitude of folks, led by Gregory Abowd
This week, we will have a number of people talk about work relating to Classroom 2000 that occurred over the summer. We will also talk about some future plans. Topics include multiple stream management, speech interfaces, and improved access interfaces.

Papers/Pointers

Abowd, Atkeson, Brotherton, Gulley, LeMon and Enqvist. Investigating the capture, integration and access problem of ubiquitous computing in an educational setting. Submitted to CHI'98 conference. Printed copies of this paper are available from Gregory on request.
Gregory D. Abowd, Chris Atkeson, Ami Feinstein, Cindy Hmelo, Rob Kooper, Sue Long, Nitin "Nick" Sawhney and Mikiya Tani. Teaching and Learning as Multimedia Authoring: The Classroom 2000 Project. In the Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia'96 Conference, November 1996. HTML version

10/16

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

10/21

Rapid prototyping at Georgia Tech
Tim Purdy
Tim will give us a tour of the rapid prototyping facilities at MARC.

Papers/Pointers

10/23

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

10/28

Wearable computing
Chris Thompson, GTRI

Papers/Pointers

Wearable Computers in GTRI

10/30

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

11/4

Wireless networking
Daniel Howard, Broadband Telecommunications Center

Papers/Pointers

Tutorial on wireless LANs produced by Georgia Tech's Broadband Telecommunications Center.

11/6

Wireless networking, part 2
Bill Lawrence and Ron Hutchins, OIT Bill will talk about wireless LAN experiments over in OIT and Ron will talk about the much-ballyhooed BellSouth campus wireless network infrastructure.

11/11

Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC)
Mike Sinclair and Peter Presti

Papers/Pointers

11/13

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

11/18

Topic
Tolek Lesniewski This week, we will venture over to the Architecture building to find out more about the IMAGINE Group doing work on interactive media.

Papers/Pointers

IMAGINE Home Page

11/20

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

11/25

Topic
Presenter

Papers/Pointers

11/27

Thanksgiving

Hacktivities

EAT!!

12/2

Topic
Presenter

Papers/Pointers

12/4

Hack Fest

Hacktivities

Papers/Pointers

General Information

Readings will either be included on this page as links or will be made available each week on the file cabinet behind Gwen Baker's desk (264 CoC).

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