Smart Distributed Group Communication Support System

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Smart Distributed Group Communication Support
System

• Valliappan Annamalai
• Sriram Cherukuri
• Vikram Shankar

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Outline of the presentation

• Motivation
• Goals of the project
• Architecture
• Results
• Conclusions and future work

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Motivation

• Need hands free system for inter-person
  communication in moderately extended scenarios
• Present system (telephone) places considerable
  overhead on the user (distraction).

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Goals of the project

• Implement a model which uses the relevant context
  information to reduce the effort on part of the
  user to locate other users.
• The architecture has to be easy to implement.
• Instead of being a bare-bones location manager,
  provide user with options to configure the
  system.

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Architecture

• Based on client-server model

Client P1
Client P3
Client P2
Client P4
Server
Context Acquisition Kit
Presently use Commands available in windows or
UNIX
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Policy Specification

• Allow the user to set policy specifying modes and
  priorities
• Modes
• Do not disturb
• Busy
• Temporarily away
• Priorities
• This describes which one of a set of users
  have greater priority, when they try to contact
  same user simultaneously

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Metrics

• Objective is to conserve user time by reducing
  distraction.
• Hence metric to measure performance is the time
  required for establishing contact
• It may be compared with the conventional system
  in terms of time required.

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Results (Expected)

• Hands free system to achieve inter-personal
  communication.
• Reduced effort on part of the user.
• Near telephone quality voice.

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Conclusions and future work

• Adding sensors to detect presence of user.
• Better GUI on the client side.
• Dealing with issues like
• Multiple users near a system
• One user in the vicinity of multiple systems
• Adding other devices like PDAs etc