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Ubiquitous Computing
ISNM Luebeck
Summer 2003


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Susanne Boy: RFID

Content:
Radio Frequency Identification: Overview, Applications, Projects
Slides:
 SusanneBoy_RFID.pdf (65,536 Bytes)
References:
Finkenzeller, Klaus, RFID Handbook, Second Edition,Wiley, West Sussex 2003 (  http://www.rfid-handbook.de/)
Links:
 AIM Global
 Metro: The Future Store
 news.com: RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages
 DTE Automation
 RFID Forum
 RFID Networking Forum

Denise Brennan: WebWall

Content:
A comparison between the WebWall public display architecture (Johannes Kepler University of Linz) and other wall approaches.
Slides:
 DeniseBrennan_WebWall.pdf (3,047,424 Bytes)
Links:
 WebWall
 Notification Collage
 LIDS
 PowerWall
 HoloWall
 i-Land
 Stanford Interactive Workspace
 Scalable Display Wall

Greg Judelman: Microsoft: The EasyLiving Project

Content:
Overview of main idea, approach, architecture, installation, demos, etc. Comparison with other intelligent room systems.
Slides:
 GregJudelman_EasyLiving.pdf (796,388 Bytes)
References:
Michael H. Coen: Design Principles for Intelligent Environments, Technical Report UW-CSE 01-08-03, August 2001. In Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'98), pp.547-554. Madison, WI, 1998.
Ajay Kulkarni: Design Principles of a Reactive Behavioral System for the Intelligent Room 2002
Links:
 The EasyLiving Project (Microsoft)
 Kids Room (MIT)
 Intelligent Room of the Aire Project (MIT AI Lab)
 Adaptive House (University of Colorado)
 Intelligent Environments Resource Page (Microsoft Research)

Ulrich Schmidts: Location Systems and Technologies

Content:
Location Sensing Techniques and Systems
Slides:
 UlrichSchmidts_LocationSensing.pdf (352,733 Bytes)
References:
Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello: A Survey and Taxonomy of Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing, Technical Report UW-CSE 01-08-03, August 2001. University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, USA. A short version also appeared in Computer, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 57-66, August, 2001.
 NEC CiteSeer Collection
Links:
 Garmin Corporation
 Bits on Locations

Cornelia Schrader: MIT: The Oxygen Project

Content:
The Oxygen approach, E21 embedded devices, H21 handheld devices, N21 networks, Oxygen software
Slides:
 CorneliaSchrader_MITOxygen_I.pdf (308,798 Bytes)
 CorneliaSchrader_MITOxygen_II.pdf (17,948 Bytes)
Links:
 MIT: The Oxygen Project

Martin Stumpf: Speech Technologies

Content:
An overview of current speech technology projects and products
Slides:
 MartinStumpf_SpeechTechnologies.pdf (65,536 Bytes)
Links:
 Universitat Autňnoma de Barcelona - Link Collection
 BeVocal Café VoiceXML
 www.voicexml.org
 Nuance Speech University
 www.nuance.com - VXML
 www.nuance.com - SSML
 www.sonify.org
 W3 Consortium
 MIT Spoken Language Systems
 Ectaco, Inc. Partner ® Voice Translator
 IBM Via Voice
 Apple Speech Recognition
 Speechware: Speech Recognition Software
 Blade Kotelly: Art and Business of Speech Recognition
 Speechtek 2003
 ScanSoft Naturally Speaking
 Voice Over IP (VOIP)

Rajendar Reddy Vallapureddy: Avatars

Content:
Avatars: History, Technologies, Examples, Tools, Products
Slides:
 RajenderReddyVallapureddy_Avatars_I.pdf (412,659 Bytes)
 RajenderReddyVallapureddy_Avatars_II.pdf (27,713 Bytes)
References:
R. Schroeder (Ed.): The Social Life of Avatars. Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments.  Amazon
James Joseph O'Donnell: Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace  Amazon
Sue KI Wilcox, Web Developer.Com Guide to 3D Avatars with CDROM (Web Developer.Com)  Amazon
Bruce Damer, Avatars! Exploring and Building Virtual Worlds on the Internet
Avatar language dictionary ontology - Jin Hou Yuusuke Koine Yoshinao Aoki Media Lab, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University, N13 W8, Sapporo 060-628, Japan
Links:
 www.h-anim.org/
 www.avatara.org/
 www.atmospherians.com/
 Adobe Atmosphere Browser Plug-In
 www.digitalspace.com/
 Avatars'97 Conference
 The Cat's Alley - Ancient Rituals for a New Medium at the Avatars97 Conference
 Raph Coster's Website
 http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/
 http://www.gamespot.com/index.html
 www.dictionary.com

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