The Portolano/Workscape Expedition in Invisible Computing

12/5/99


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Table of Contents

The Portolano/Workscape Expedition in Invisible Computing

Invisible computing

Expedition goals

DARPA missions

Expedition personnel and their expertise

A team effort

Our strengths and foci

Agenda

A Visionary

The Dawn of the Age of Exploration

Workscapes

PPT Slide

Invisible computing: photography scenario

Expedition assumptions

Influencing trends

Expedition challenges

Expedition planning methodology

Application domains (and collaborators)

Research matrix

Agenda

Networking many small mobile devices

Data-centric networking

Connection-centric networking

Data-centric networking

Data-centric networking

Networking infrastructure

Some middle-ware research problems

Model-based Design

Development - partitioning/synthesis

Deployment - plug-and-play at all levels

Monitoring - how do you know its working?

Distributed (layered) data services

Agenda

What is a Workscape?

The Physical World is Complex

Application 1: Commandscape

Application 2: Labscape

Application 3: Protoscape

Workscape Infrastructure

Previous work: Ubiquitous Computing

Previous Work: Parctab Project

Previous Work: In-Building Location Systems

Novel Workscape Components

Augmenting the Computer

Tagging and Sensing

Augmenting the World with invisible interfaces

Electronic tags: novel approaches

Inductive RFID

Capacitively coupled RFID

Motorola Bistatix

Ad hoc Networks

Spot-on: RF location

Whiteboard Application

Infrared Tags

In-band IR signaling

Out-of-band IR signaling

Keychain Computing

Micro-minder technology

Network Programmable Hardware

Programmable Hardware

Sensor Fusion at all levels

Knowledge-creating Environment

Knowledge-sharing mediums

Summary

Agenda

LabScape - one of our driver applications

LabScape is an Ideal Application Driver for Portolano

LabScape: Major Components

Scenario – The Scientific Process

Scenario

Scenario now cast in invisible terms

Portolano Research Issues

University of Washington Cell Systems Initiative

Agenda

Speech as the Interface …. and the Information

Speech and Invisible Computing

Labscape: control, capture and replay

Speech Corder: No More Note Taking

Communicator: Human-Computer Interaction

Core Technologies Needed

Speech recognition is NOT a solved problem!

ASR Research Challenges

Robust Speech Recognition - ICSI

Robust Speech Recognition - UW

Coding for Wireless Communications and Distributed Recognition Agents

Speech Generation

Dialog Tracking

Speech Indexing

Discourse Tracking and Indexing -- What’s New?

Summary

Agenda

Portolano/Workscape - Summary

Prototype products in invisible computing

Possible exploratory projects

Base program

Program options

Conclusion - research impact

Conclusion - DARPA missions

Summary

Author: Gaetano Borriello

Email: gaetano@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/portolano/