I5310: Part II ContextAware Computing Introduction to the course

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I5310 Part IIContext-Aware ComputingIntroducti
on to the course

• Yun-Maw Kevin Cheng ???
• Context-Aware Interactive Systems Lab

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Faculty Introduction

• Office ??703B
• Email kevin_at_ttu.edu.tw
• Education
• PhD (summer/2003), Computing Science, University
  of Glasgow, UK
• MSc (winter/1999), Computing Science, University
  of Glasgow, UK
• BSc (1997), CSE, Tatung University (was TTIT)
• Professional Experience
• Postdoctoral Fellow, IIS, Academia Sinica
• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Health Research
  Institutes
• Member of ACM SIGCHI

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Topics
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Evolution of HCI interfaces (1/2)

• 50s - Interface at the hardware level for
  engineers - switch panels
• 60-70s - interface at the programming level -
  COBOL, FORTRAN
• 70-90s - Interface at the terminal level -
  command languages
• 80s - Interface at the interaction dialogue level
  - GUIs, multimedia

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Evolution of HCI interfaces (2/2)

• 90s - Interface at the work setting - networked
  systems, groupware
• 00s - Interface becomes pervasive, disappearing,
  and invisible in a way
• The world is the interface itself
• How to realize this?
• sensor technology, mobile devices, consumer
  electronics, interactive screens, embedded
  technology

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From Resource-Centric to User-Centric
Past
Super Distribution
I like
Resource
Please give me
Java
-Context-aware -Resource distributed
-Logic-aware -Resource centered
Are the clients satisfied?
Servants for human and society.

• Adopt from Context-Aware Yet Another service
  Hiromitsu Kato, ubicomp2002
• Systems Development Lab. Hitachi, Ltd.

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Context-Aware Computing is hot!

• EU Equator Project
• MIT Media Lab, MIT Project Oxygen
• CMU Project Aura
• Georgia Tech Aware Home
• Stanford Interactive Workspace
• Intel Proactive Computing
• Philips Research Ambient Intelligence
• Microsoft Research
• NTT DoCoMo
• IBM Pervasive Computing
• U-Korean, U-Japan, U-Taiwan (e.x. ???????)

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A message from NSC
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Course objective and format (1/2)

• This is mainly a graduate level, research
  (seminar) oriented course
• Go through a light-weight research cycle within
  one term
• Collaborative learning - students and faculties

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Course objective and format (2/2)

• Traning in technical paper reading and critical
  thinking
• Paper reading
• Define problems and challenges
• Understand state-of-art techniques and solutions
• Identify limitations of state-of-art solutions
• Paper presentation and discussion
• Project idea presentation
• 56 papers on a specific topic/week
• Review for each paper before the class
• 20mins for paper presentation
• 10mins for paper discussion

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My role in this course

• Facilitate your learning
• will not presume to teach you everything
• you will learn most by reading, thinking,
  listening to and challenging your fellow
  classmates, and doing
• Help you consume papers
• Try best to help stimulate critical thinking
• Help you form the base for future research in
  this area

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How to consume and attack a paper? (1/2)

• For each paper, try to answer the following
  questions
• What is the problem?
• What is the most up-to-date solutions?
• What is the key (new) method and technique?
• What is good or bad about this method?
• What has actually been done?

Adopt from Hao-Hua Chus Teaching Experience
Sharing in Ubiquitous Computing Course
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How to consume and attack a paper? (2/2)

• Challenge what you read
• Are assumptions reasonable?
• Is the method similar to other methods in related
  work?
• Is the improvement marginal or significant?
• Are arguments logically sound?
• Are evaluation metrics reasonable?

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Light-weight research cycle (1/2)

• Drama define motivation scenarios (Tell an
  interesting and attractive story)
• Emphasize the parts of a scenario where it is
  currently not possible, but with your idea, it
  will become possible.
• Derive problem(s)
• Assumptions (research problems), requirements,
  implementation

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Light-weight research cycle (2/2)

• Survey related work
• Design solution(s) (new method and concept)
• Differentiate your work from related work
• Must answer two questions Whats new? Why is it
  significant?
• Rapid prototyping
• Evaluation of Prototype Implementation
  (Experiments, user studies)

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Must read!

• Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21th Century,
  Scientific American, September 1991.
• Mark Weiser, Some computer science issues in
  ubiquitous computing, Communications of the ACM,
  36(7)75-85, July 1993.
• Mark Weiser, John S. Brown, The Coming Age of
  Calm Technology, 1996.

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Related journals, conferences workshops

• IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine
• Springer-Verlag Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
• UbiComp International Conference on Ubiquitous
  Computing
• MobileHCI International Conference on Human
  Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and
  Services
• PerCom IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing
  and Communications
• Pervasive International Conference on Pervasive
  Computing
• CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
• HCI British HCI Group Annual Conference
• MobiSys International Conference on Mobile
  Systems, Applications, and Services
• EUSAI European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence
• MobiCom ACM Annual International Conference on
  Mobile Computing and Networking
• SenSys The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked
  Sensor Systems

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Workshop Q1

• 05 May 2008
• Share what youll have found about context-aware
  computing
• 1015mins presentation and QA
• Wrap up what you think of this new breed of
  computing/applications/services