Description

Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) is the term that designates the post-PC era of computing, in which mobile embedded processors seamlessly communicate with each other and the surrounding infrastructure to support humans in many different situations of everyday life. In this seminar we cover different aspects of Ubiquitous Computing including visions and applications of Ubiquitous Computing, smart devices and services, human-computer interaction and wearables, context-aware systems, and ubiquitous communications. We put an special emphasis in wearable computing and eTextiles as an intuitive interface between users and the computing system.

A seminar contribution consists of a topic, which has to be presented in written and oral form. We will distribute the set of topics and bibliography during the kickoff meeting. Sample topics are tools and platforms used to aid the development of wearable devices and sensor technologies and algorithms used for In-door localization, as well as service API compatibility.

Language: Englisch

Number of Participants: 10

Module Number: Masterseminar IN2107

Info-Meeting: Mo. 06 Juli 2015

Kick-off Meeting: TBA

Topics

Ubiquitous Computing Research, Challenges, and Outlooks

Key questions in UbiComp research
Key challenges of state of the art
Motivation and guidelines for building UbiComp research systems
Evaluating UbiComp research and dissemination of results
Existing components for building a research UbiComp system (software frameworks and hardware for rapid prototyping, existing datasets)
Common evaluation approaches for ubicomp systems
Field Studies: design, execution, and data analysis
Ethnography in ubicomp
Famous conferences, influential persons and research groups

References for orientation:

Poslad: Chapter 1, 2 , and 13
Krumm: Chapter 1, 2, 4, 5

Human-Computer Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing

Ubiquitous user interface, Calm computing
Interaction design
Implicit HCI and design principles for ubicomp
Evaluation methods in HCI for ubicomp
User models
Classes of user interface
Input / output technologies

References for orientation:

Poslad: Chapter 5
Krumm: Chapter 6

Context-Awareness

What is context
What is context-awareness
Context-aware applications
Context modeling and representation
Context-awareness frameworks and development environments / tools
Evaluation methods for context-aware applications

References for orientation:

Poslad: Chapter 7, 8
Krumm: Chapter 2, 8

Processing sequential sensor data

Continuous vs. discrete data
Processing steps for sequential data
Filters
Hidden Markov Model
Pattern recognition methods for sequential data
Feature selection
Presenting processing performance
Sensor fusion and multi-dimentional sequential data

References for orientation:

Krumm: Chapter 9
Gillian, Nicholas, and Joseph A. Paradiso. "The gesture recognition toolkit." The Journal of Machine Learning Research 15.1 (2014): 3483-3487.

Indoor Localisation Techniques

Gesture Recognition using Wearables

Smart Home Control

Wearable computing and eTextiles history

What are wearables and eTextiles?
Since when do they exist?
What is so interesting about eTextiles and wearables / what is their potential?
Provide an overview of the field and history, from wearable computers to eTextiles.
Provide examples of eTextile applications (health and rehabilitation, sports and fitness, blue collar working)

References:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/305yo34ej63sppw/AADr9mIVL2Y1wNleZ7OH4_5Aa?dl=0

Technologies used for eTextiles and fiber level research

What eTextile sensors exist and what do they measure?
What technologies and materials are being used for the creation of eTextile sensors?
What limitations do they have?
Provide an overview of eTextile sensors, examples of eTextiles using those sensors.

References:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i8oto6zgpk1yp18/AACiqje_pCTIPQ2m6kOMLYeFa?dl=0

Advices:

Start with the document called “eTextile Sensor overview”

Usability and Wearability of Wearables and eTextiles

Provide design guidelines for wearables and eTextiles
How is output usually given to eTextile users (visual, auditive, haptic)
Provide references to studies

References:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2uakdj867ihhhgj/AADWkv_s-Ac0F8M52v7xjzBLa?dl=0

Advices:

Check Gemperle’s paper, he has identified guidelines for wearability. While Gemperle is a good starting point, this seminar contribution requires analyzing different papers related to usability of categorizing them in a meaningful way.

Applications of eTextiles (health and rehabilitation, sports and fitness, blue collar working)

Describe one application field for eTextiles providing examples

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yd2odut8eab4w36/AABK6FcIKK83_EV0BSa0TP3ea?dl=0

Tools and development environments for wearable computers and eTextiles

Describe and compare different tools and development environments for eTextiles and wearable devices
Describe how these tools support the development of eTextiles, how would these tools be used? What are their limitations?

References:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8k2wvydo7yfir6o/AACrSEQ5BTLe4xjgh3R4gBcba?dl=0

Description

Topics

Ubiquitous Computing Research, Challenges, and Outlooks