The Smart Party

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The Smart Party
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What is Smart Party?

• Imagine rooms with music, guests with media
  devices.
• Music in each room comes from guests media
  library and preferences.
• Smart Party tracks location, tailors music to
  guests currently in room.

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What am I doing?

• Currently songs are chosen in a round-robin
  fashion
• Each user picks one song from library at random
• We can do better! We can please more people more
  of the time!

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Voting Algorithm

• Voting algorithm works in simulation
• Implement voting algorithm in Smart Party
  application.
• Next user nominates a song
• Others vote based on their preferences
• Result More users like the music playing

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Testing Analysis

• Design test environment using limited hardware
  resources
• Currently, 3 rooms are set up, 3 laptops
  participate
• Need to virtualize to better test voting
• Create metric of user satisfaction based on
  individual preferences
• Compare user satisfaction under voting algorithm
  with round-robin selection.

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Checkpoints

• 2 quarter project
• By end of 1st quarter
• Voting algorithm implemented in Smart Party
• Progress on building test environment
• By end of 2nd quarter
• Tested and revised voting algorithm
  implementation
• Data showing increased user satisfaction

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Bibliography

• K. Eustice, V. Ramakrishna, Nam Nguyen, Peter
  Reiher, The Smart Party A Personalized
  Location-Aware Multimedia Experience