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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
With today's wireless technologies, such as BlueTooth and IEEE 802.11, connecting handheld computers and conventional computers together are becoming no longer an occasional event for synchronization. Instead, the devices are frequently in close, interactive communication. Many environments, such as offices, meeting rooms and classrooms, already contain computers, and the smart homes of the future will have ubiquitous embedded computation. Household and office appliances will soon have wireless communication abilities. When the user enters one of these environments carrying a handheld or wearable computer, how will that computer interact with the environment? The Pebbles project is exploring the many ways that small handheld Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) such as PalmOS devices or Pocket PC / Windows CE devices can serve as a useful adjunct to the "fixed" computers in those situations. For meetings, our applications allow the presenter to use a PDA to have better control of presentations, and allow the audience to actively participate with their own PDAs. For the office, other Pebbles applications allow the PDA to be used as an extra input and output device. For the home, we are exploring the use of the PDA as a customizable, intelligent "personal universal controller" (PUC) for appliances. For the disabled, we are investigating how PDAs can serve as assistive devices for access to computers and appliances. This talk will provide an overview of our Pebbles project, including a live demonstration of our systems (available for download from our web site) and a discussion of future plans. For more information, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pebbles/
Information on participating / attending:
kostenlos
Date:
04/30/2004 14:30 - 04/30/2004
Event venue:
Fraunhofer IPSI
Vortragssaal
Dolivostr. 15
64293 Darmstadt
Hessen
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Information technology, Mathematics, Media and communication sciences, Physics / astronomy
Types of events:
Entry:
04/25/2004
Sender/author:
Presse Abteilung
Department:
Kommunikation
Event is free:
unknown
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event11091
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