Future Lifestyle

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Future Lifestyle

• Integrated with Speech Recognition

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Recall the Show Room..

• Open the door without keys

• Turn on / off lights, radio, TV, etc

• Choose TV programs

What else can we do?
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Consider when you wanna

• know what are the movies playing today

• ask when are the flights to LA this week and make
  a reservation

• check if you forgot to turn off the air
  conditioner before you left home

• make a phone call to an old friend whose number
  is missed unfortunately

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A desirable future

• We wish to see, to hear, and to know all that we
  want

Naturally
Remember the phone number?
Go to a specific place?
Find the newspaper?
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Natural
To make it

• Speech Recognition

To Say

• Image Transferring

To See

• Audio Playback

To Hear

• Data Retrieval Automatically

To Know
Theyre all ready!!
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This is my idea

• To Provide an example to show that the
  technical ability we have now is already well
  enough to change our daily life for a great deal.
  

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Goals

• To switch TV images from CATV, video, mailbox,
  and www browser as our wish

• To make a phone call or to query info. without
  walking toward the devices, such as PCs and
  telephones

• To control or to get the status of lights and
  fans, nearby or far away

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TEL

Light
Speech
Email
WWW
Background Computer
Remote Computer
Image Data
Status Control
TV
Cable
fan
video
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Tools

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Tools

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Metaglue?
can be low-level controller for devices, such as

• Metaglue, developed by MIT, provides a platform
  that components in an intelligent environment
  (IE)can thus communicate with one another in
  order to coordinate their actions.

projectors
can also be high-level agents, such as
meeting management applications
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Tools
For computers to communicate with each other so
that user can control devices far away

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Tools

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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X10?

• X10 is used to control simple devices, such as
  lights.

• Difference between PLC

1. Controlling 32 or even more devices at one time
2. Remote control
3. Turning the lights lighter or darker
gradually
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Tools
To control fans, lights, etc

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Constant recording time and different keyword
data for each function
Tools

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Tools
To make a phone call, query data on the web, and
so on

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Tools
So that all images are available not only on the
computer screens

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Tools
Make it possible to talk to somebody on a phone
without dialing or holding a handset

• Metaglue

• X10 or PLC

• Speech Recognition

• Simple Windows programs, exdialer, IE

• Digital TV

• Full-Duplex modem card

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Reference

• Nicholas Hanssens, Ajay Kulkarni, Rattapoom
  Tchida, and Tyler Horton, Building Agent-Based
  Intelligent Workspaces, 2002.