[Asis-l] HCIL Seminar Series - Dr. Brad Meyers 10/21 2:00pm

[Kollet, Sharmon]

Hi All,

Brad Meyers from Carnegie Mellon University will be the next guest speaker in
the HCIL Fall Seminar Series.  

His talk, "Mobile Devices for Control," will be next Tuesday, October 21 at
2:00pm in room 2120 of the Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC) on
campus.

ABSTRACT:
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 classrooms, we are investigating how the students' handhelds can
enhance testing and notetaking when they are connected to the instructor's PC.
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.


	Other talks in the HCIL Fall Seminar Series include:

	November 14, 2:00pm (2107 CSIC)  - Dr. Gennady Andrienko, Germany's
Fraunhofer Institut Autonome Intelligente Systeme, "Spatio-temporal information
visualization" 

      December 2, 2:00pm (2120 CSIC) - Dr. Mike Eisenberg, University of
Colorado at Boulder's Cognitive Science Institute,  "Mindstuff: Educational
Technology Beyond the 	Computer"


Please email hcil-info at cs.umd.edu or call 301-405-2769 with any questions.  

We hope to see you here!


Sincerely,
Sharmon Kollet
Coordinator
HCIL

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