Wireless Presentation Wizard

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"Wireless Presentation Wizard"

• Pocket PC as a Remote Controller for PowerPoint
  Presentation

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What?

• What is a Wireless Presentation Wizard?
• A remote control of PowerPoint presentation
• Vs VNC, PCAnywhere
• Server is not dummy

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Why?

• Free presenter from the presentation computer
• Substitute existing remote control
• More functions
• Control from more than one person
• Functions can be adopted on the server

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When?

• This project started around 20th Feb
• Idea proposed by Sam
• -gt Interactive discussion for NASA engineers
• -gt Sam(ISSRE2001)

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How?

• 3 aspects
• Client
• Connection
• Desktop Server

Desktop Server
PDA Client
TCP/IP connection (802.11/Bluetooth)
PowerPoint
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How?

• Client
• Implemented on WinCE 3.0
• Win32
• Command allowed
• Forward
• Backward
• Start Slideshow

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How?
Screen

• TCP/IP connection
• Wireless peer-to-peer
• Bluetooth
• Browser (?)
• Telnet session (?)
• Protocol
• Plain Text

PDA
Desktop
PDA
PDA
PDA
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How?

• Desktop server - challenges
• A Windows messages across different processes
• B What are the control messages for PowerPoint?
• A Hooking PowerPoint
• SetWindowsHookEx
• B Use Spy to sniff windows messages

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Future Work

• Access control
• Chat message
• Role assignment to different person connected to
  server
• Coordinator
• Presenter
• Audience