My Research

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My Research

• presented by Mikael Drugge at
• the Media Technology Spring Retreat
• 2004-05-0X

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Research status

• Currently
• Improve our HCI user study about interruption.
• Todo soon
• Extend NomaCom into the Wearable Communicator.
• Help design/build our new wearable platform.
• Future work (possible todo)
• Using situation awareness in NomaCom.
• Using ABC/RMS in mobile e-meetings.
• User study about framerate for HMDs.
• Eventcasting accuracy study.

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Publication status

• Publications so far
• Eventcasting at ICDCS/IWSAWC04.
• Papers in the pipeline
• NomaCom submitted to ACM Multimedia04.
• Interrupting to be submitted to ISWC04.
• Upcoming journals of interest
• Special edition about Memory Sharing, maybe
  Knowledgeable NomaCom material(?)

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Current research areas
Community
Human
ABC

• Knowledgeable

• NomaCom

Situate

• Interrupting

• Eventcasting

UbiComp
WearComp

• Borderland

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WearComp mediated human-human communication

• Applies to
• NomaCom (cross-media communication)
• Knowledgeable (sharing experiences live etc)
• Interrupting (how humans are best interrupted)
• The Wearable Communicator which is all the above.
• Topics covered by this area
• Focus
• Human Human communication through wearcomps.
• Mediator
• The WearComp itself and how the user interacts
  with itin order to communicate with another
  human being.
• General interaction with wearcomps is not a goal
  in itself.

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Questions?
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Bonus material ?

• MediaTech Masters Thesis proposals
• Mood Amplifier
• Use different music to amplify the users mood
  based on sensor data from the human body, plus
  some Situate stuff.
• E.g. play Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden when
  running to catch the bus, and End of all Hope
  by Nightwish when walking to F40 for an exam.
• Voice/Text/Image converter
• Extend the voice/text converter to handle images.
• E.g. use Googles image search functionality to
  retrieve the picture best matching what the users
  are talking about, and have that as optional
  media to present for the user.

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Current research areas

• Three(!) areas
• Human Ubicomp interaction using wearables
• Eventcasting
• Borderland
• Human Human communication
• Knowledgeable user
• NomaCom voice/text converter
• Wearcomp Human interaction
• HCI user study on interruption
• A bit too broad, should focus...