Emerging Technologies

1. Emerging Technologies Joaquin Vila, Ph.D. Professor School of Information Technology

2. Presentation Outline • Wireless Trends • Location Based Services • Interfaces • Virtual Reality • Virtual Spaces • Avatars

3. Wireless Trends • Messaging Services • M-Commerce • Mobile Gaming • Location Based Services – LBS

4. Location Based Services - LBS • Definition: • Applications that re-act according to a geographic trigger based on the position of a mobile device anywhere anytime. • AKA • WhereWare • Location Aware Computing • Location Finding Technologies • Location-Based Computing

5. Location: Latitude, Longitude, Altitude (X,Y & Z)

6. Cell Triangulation

8. 24 Satellites

9. Location Technologies

10. Location Technologies Source: MIT’s Technology Review

11. Where am I?

12. How to find me!

15. LBS: Some Applications • Proximity searching: • "find all restaurants within a radius of…",

16. Routing • Routing and Driving Directions: • Routes can be calculated and displayed onto a map and driving directions: • "shortest distance" • "fastest route”

17. LBS: Road Watch • This service features routes in the UK with AA Roadwatch Mobile's real-time traffic .

18. LBS: Buying a House? • Hewlett-Packard • Websign

19. LBS: Enhanced-911

20. LBS: Find Friends

21. Digital Angel www.digitalAngel.net

22. Chicago’s ICAM

23. LBS: Tracking

24. LBS: Tracking

25. LBS: Tracking

26. LBS: Tracking

27. SBL: Tracking

28. LBS: Digital Fences • Pro Tech Monitoringwww.ptm.com • "house arrest"

29. LBS - Ejemplos DoD • Locating Soldiers • Vital Signs • Tracking

30. Location-Based Taxi Hailing Services Zingo

31. SPOT: Microsoft • Smart Personal Objects Technology

32. SPOT - Microsoft

33. LBS: GPS Drawing

34. Brighton’s Elephant

35. LBS: GPS Drawing–White Horse Hill Variations: Sea & Air

36. Statistics:Location: Waxham Beach, Norfolk Area: 100 metros2. Distance: 2.19 km Speed: 3.6 kph Duration: 00:36:27(15/08/2003) Playing Tic-Tac-Toe

37. M-Commerce • Definition: • Any transaction with a monetary value that is conducted via a mobile telecom network.

38. Just-in-Location Learning (JILL) • A New Learning Paradigm • This paradigm will empower lifelong learners to acquire knowledge based upon their location and natural curiosity at their own pace. • Learners are given the opportunity to seek information based on their geographical location.

39. JILL • The facilitator is a mobile device featuring location technologies. • The learners dictate what they want to know in reference to their location. • They are in control of the line of inquiry they choose to pursue and will be subject to the type of information available on the “location specific knowledge base”.

40. JILLExamples • JILL may provide the history of a building to an active learner. • The geographical location and surrounding area of the learner is displayed

41. JILLExamples • The user faces a building • JILL identifies it. • JILL displays topics for learning opportunities.

42. JILLExamples • The user selects a topic. • Information is provided just-in-location.

43. LBS - Privacy • Law • Notification • Users must be notified whenever they are being tracked/localized. • Levels • Without notification • Notify all the time • Anonymous • Internationalization

44. LBS: Privacy • Problem • Crime • Criminals may know where you are… • Being at the wrong place at the wrong time. • Modus vivendi • Humans are not used to broadcast their location at all times. • …not even to friends.

45. Emerging Interfaces

46. Wireless Multimedia Streaming • Purpose: • Essential to provide seamless quality experience for audio and video transmissions • MPEG-4 has been selected by Wireless Multimedia Forum (WMF) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) for use in the mobile environment.

47. Everywhere Displays (IBM)

48. Projected Devices

49. Volumetric 3D Displays

50. Out there… • http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1264000/1264205.stm