Community being together wherever you are

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Community- being together wherever you are

• Johnny Widén
• Media Technology CDT
• Luleå University of Technology

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Outline

• Communication models
• Research issues
• Prototypes
• Co-operating Vital projects
• Goals
• Done during 2003
• Time plan 2004

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Common communities
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Synchronous communication

• Asynchronous different time
• Email
• Messaging
• Forums

• Synchronous same time
• Audio
• Video
• Chat
• Messaging

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Human communication
Face-to-face
Mediated
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Research issues

• Scalable distribution of real-time media to
  dynamic groups
• Dynamic adaptation
• Group awareness
• User interface design
• Mobile collaborative interface for distributed
  workers

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Room metaphore exists today
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Room metaphore - static
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Community metaphore - dynamic
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Examples of dynamic groups

• Geographic position
• - I want to interact with all users within 1 km
  radius interested in human power vehicles
• User state
• - I want to interact with of my friends that
  currently are not sleeping
• Work relation
• - I want to interact with my project group

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Scalable distribution of real-time media to
dynamic groups

• Static groups is solved
• (matching groups with IP Multicast groups)
• How to achieve scalability with highly dynamic
  settings where each user creates their own groups

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Dynamic adaptation
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Dynamic adaptation

• How to interconnect various communication media
  such as converting audio to text, text to audio,
  activity cues to audio to support more limited
  devices
• How to interconnect various communication tools
  such as desktop computers, hand held devices,
  wearable computers, and fixed and mobile phones

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User interface design

• How to present dynamic groups
• How to present the group for a wearable computer
  user and how she should interact with the group
  and the group with her

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Group awareness

• (If time allows)
• How to create a better awareness and better sense
  of presence for groups
• using desktop computers
• using a combination of desktop computers, PDAs,
  and mobile phones

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Mobile collaborative interface for distributed
workers
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Scenario driven applied research

• Results
• Prototypes (running software/systems)
• Good academic results
• Idea -gt Prototype -gt Evaluation -gt Publication
• We want the results to be utilized!
• We live as we preach!

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Prototypes so far

• Wearable Communicator
• MIM - Mobile Instant Messaging
• MIM Web Gateway
• A Web Based History tool
• Client for adapting video bandwidth based on user
  interest
• Integration of telephone in a Marratech e-meeting
  room

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Prototypes to come

• Voice/text converter
• Testbed
• Wearable Communicator with voice/text converter
• Wearable Communicator with telepointer over video
• Wearable Communicator PDA based
• Dynamic groups

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Wearable Communicator

• Head mounted display
• Camera and headset
• Mouse and keyboard
• Laptop in a backpack

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MIM - Mobile Instant Messaging

• Overcome the limitations of ICQ, AIM, IRC, MSN
  Messenger, etc
• MIM supports
• use on many computers
• mobile usage
• MIM clients so far
• ICQ, IRC, Marratech Pro chat
• on desktops, laptops, and Java based mobile phones

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MIM Web Gateway
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A Web Based History tool
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Client for adapting video bandwidth based on user
interest

• Different parameters could be set
• e.g., give the video for a focused user more
  frames/s

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Telephone gateway to a Marratech e-meeting room

• Telephone gateway via SIP

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Example e-visitor at a fair

• A fair in Stockholm
• Remote participants in Luleå
• A much greater experience than with a fixed web
  cam
• Audio environment of great importance
• This was very good!!

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Community - summary

• Technology that makes it simple for
• rich meetings with family, friends, and
  colleagues
• located elsewhere or on the move
• Rich meetings
• (depth, quality, and substance)
• by use of video, audio, chat, and shared areas
  for text, pictures, and drawings

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Co-operating projects within Vital

• Meetings
• Meetings are central in society. User interfaces
  for communication have to be intuitive and be
  adapted to mobility
• Situate
• Services based on the users position, context,
  and situation simplify the usage of complex
  communication systems
• ABC - Always best connected
• In mobile communication the best available
  network connection should automatically be used
  based on user profiles for bandwith, latency,
  costs, or other parameters

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Goals (1)

• Engagement
• Researchers (from academia, culture, industry
  etc) - 2
• PhD students - 8
• Co-operating organizations in the project - 3
• Information and knowledge deployment
• Presentations/demonstrations - 10
• Publications (accepted by renowned conferences
  etc) - 15
• Substantial result
• Patents - 0
• Prototypes - 10

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Goals (2)

• Growth
• Merits/Examinations - 3
• Companies establishing (expanding) themselves in
  the region - 0
• Start-up companies - 0
• New inter-organizational networks - 1
• New business for existing companies - 0
• Miscellaneous
• Activities for equality between the sexes - 0

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Done during 2003 Q1

• 2003-01 -- Start of phase 1
• 2003-02 Prototype
• MIM - Mobile Instant Messaging, version 1
• 2003-02 Prototype
• Wearable Communicator, version 1
• 2003-02 Demonstrations
• at SITI conference

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Done during 2003 Q2

• 2003-05 Prototype
• Client for adapting video bandwidth based on user
  interest, version 1
• 2003-05 Demonstrations
• at student recruiting fair
• 2003-06 Prototype
• MIM Web Gateway, version 1
• 2003-06 Prototype
• Telephone gateway via SIP in Marratech Pro,
  version 1
• 2003-06 Licentiate exams
• Jeremiah Scholl, Stefan Elf

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Done during 2003 Q3

• 2003-09 Paper
• Presentation of User-interest driven video
  adaptation for collaborative workspace
  applications at 5th COST 264 International
  Workshop on Networked Group Communications, NGC
• 2003-09 Paper
• Presentation of Secure Inclusion of Phones into
  Online E-Meetings at 6th IFIP/IEEE International
  Conference, MMNS 2003

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Done during 2003 Q4 (1)

• 2003-10 -- Start of phase 2
• 2003-12 Prototype, version 1
• MIM history tool
• 2003-11 Presentation
• at Thesis Day
• 2003-11 Prototype
• Client for adapting video bandwidth based on user
  interest, version 2

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Done during 2003 Q4 (2)

• 2003-11 Demonstrations
• at Cyber Science Conference
• 2003-12 Paper
• MIM history tool
• 2003-12 Prototype
• MIM - Mobile Instant Messaging, version 2

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Time plan 2004 Q1

• 2004-01 Paper
• Presentation The MIM Web Gateway to IP Multicast
  E-Meetings at SPIE/ACM Multimedia Computing and
  Networking Conference (MMCN'04)
• 2004-01 Paper
• MIM history tool, web interface, phone client
• 2004-Q1 Prototype
• Client for adapting video bandwidth based on user
  interest, version 3
• 2004-Q1 Prototype
• Voice/text converter, version 1
• 2004-Q1 Prototype
• Testbed, version 1

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Time plan 2004 Q2

• 2004-04 Report
• Technical report to ABB
• 2004-Q2 Prototype
• Wearable Communicator with telepointer over video
• 2004-Q2 Prototype
• Telephone gateway via SIP in Marratech Pro,
  version 2
• 2004-Q2 Prototype
• Dynamic groups, version 1
• 2004-Q2 Prototype
• Wearable Communicator with voice/text converter

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Time plan 2004 Q3

• 2004-Q2-Q3 User Study
• Measuring user behavior
• 2004-Q3 Prototype
• Dynamic groups, version 2
• 2004-Q3 Prototype
• Wearable Communicator PDA based
• 2004-Q3 Prototype
• Testbed, version 2
• 2004-Q3-Q4 Paper
• User studies on adapting video bandwidth based on
  user interest

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Time plan 2004 Q4

• 2004-Q4 Doctorial exam
• Roland Parviainen
• 2004-Q4 Licentiate exam
• Marcus Nilsson
• 2004-Q4 Paper
• Important issues in video communication regarding
  human task performance
• 2005-01 Report
• Final report

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Questions?