Wireless Wireless ComputinComputin

g & g & Tracking Tracking

Geri GayGeri GayProfessor

Department of Communication,Computing and Information Science

October 11, 2005October 11, 2005

If you were stranded on a desert island and could have one thing with you, what would it be?a) Matches and lighterb) Food and waterc) Another persond) Wireless phone

Quick PollQuick Poll

UntetheredUntethered

•How has mobile technology changed our lives?

•How might it continue to do so?

•What new rules ought we to impose on its use?

•How has wireless technology encouraged us to

connect individually but disconnect socially?

•How does the behavior of one person in a space

influence the behavior or activities of another?

A multidimensional explosion

Media Richness

UbiquitousConnectivity

PC connected

Everything connectedSeveral things connected Smart Service

BrowsersSearch Engines

Media based searches

Personalized SearchPersonalized Web ViewProcess MIPs

Storage MBSpeed kbps

Process 100s MIPsStorage GBSpeed Mbps

IT Capacity

Text and Graphics

Audio and video

3D interactive objects

Fourth Wave InternetFourth Wave Internet (Sarnoff Labs)

Combining social navigation and location aware computing

Leave messages and attach to a Leave messages and attach to a particular locationparticular location

Leave MessagesLeave Messages

CampusAwareCampusAware• Location-aware guided tour of campus with a variety of user feedback mechanisms (rating, writing notes)• Combining social navigation and

context-aware computing

Current PastMenu

• Who is here?• Where should I go

next?• What is the ‘climate’

of the museum right now?

• What are my peers excited about?

• Who might be interested in conversing about this painting?

Creative Communities

Current PastMenu

•What did I see?•What did I miss?•Where have others gone?•What might I like to see?

Visualizing Social Navigation

EyetrackingEyetracking

Activities for Active LookingActivities for Active Looking

SameTime A/V Meeting Network, Red – Cornell UniversityBlue – Syracuse University

Social networks (Syracuse/Cornell students)

Email Traffic Patterns

Implementation Status: Data Implementation Status: Data Collection on Visitor ExperienceCollection on Visitor Experience

Density of people(how many, where, when)

Density of information activity Tempo of movement

(physical and virtual) Common paths

(direction of traffic) Object and Information Popularity Object Attractiveness Mood

Through above metrics Through surveys or more oblique

questions

vs.