Mobile Computing System (2007)
Bill Schilit Norman, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Michael M. Tso, Roy Want
Introduction The PARCTAB is a personal digital assistant (PDA) that communicates via infrared (IR) data-packets to a network of IR transceivers. The infrared network is designed for in-building use,...
A user interaction model for NFC enabled applications (2007)
Yaw Anokwa, Gaetano Borriello, Trevor Pering, Roy Want
Near field communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless protocol that allows users to connect devices and access content and services by simply holding enabled devices near each other. This paper...
The PSI board: Realizing a phonecentric body sensor network (2007)
Trevor Pering, Pei Zhang, Rohit Chaudhri, Yaw Anokwa, Roy Want
Abstract—When designing a body sensor network, the mobile phone is a natural design point for data aggregation services. However, there is a missing bridge that allows sensors to communicate with...
Experience with a low power wireless mobile computing platform (2004)
Vijay Raghunathan, Trevor Pering, Roy Want, Alex Nguyen, Peter Jensen
Stargate: Energy Management Techniques (2004)
Vijay Raghunathan, Mani Srivastava, Trevor Pering, Roy Want
This poster presents techniques for energy efficient operation of the Stargate wireless platform. In addition to conventional power management techniques such as dynamic voltage and scaling and...
Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gaetano Borriello, Keith I. Farkas
this article, we survey the progress toward Weiser's vision from a hardware viewpoint. Where In Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing, computers disappear from conscious thought....
Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gaetano Borriello, Keith I. Farkas
this article, we survey the progress toward Weiser's vision from a hardware viewpoint. Where In Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing, computers disappear from conscious thought....
The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing (2002)
Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, John Light
Abstract. The Personal Server is a mobile device that enables you to readily store and access the data and applications you carry with you through interfaces found in the local environment. Unlike...
Design and Calibration of the SpotOn Ad-Hoc Location Sensing System (2001)
Jeffrey Hightower, Chris Vakili, Gaetano Borriello, Roy Want
Abstract. The location of equipment, people, and other physical things is essential data to many emerging applications. Unfortunately, location data is often not easy to obtain. We have created...
Survey on Information Appliances (2000)
Us is only one of manyt rendst hat have enabledt he development of informatfl) appliances. A singlet echnologytolo byit:fl) would not have been sufficient For informat)E appliancest o maket heir...
Embedded Computation Meets the World-Wide-Web (1999)
Two important trends are converging to bring about a radical transformation in the operation of our world. First, the computer industry's remarkable ability to squeeze more and more transistors...
Embodied User Interfaces for Really Direct Manipulation (1999)
Kenneth P. Fishkin, Anuj Gujar, Beverly L. Harrison, Thomas P. Moran, Roy Want
this paper we illustrate embodied user interface techniques by considering paper document handling tasks. People have developed a highly refined set of physical techniques to perform these document...
Darnell J. Moore, Roy Want, Beverly L. Harrison, Anuj Gujar, Ken Fishkin
This paper describes a novel physical icon [3] or "phicon-" based system that can be programmed to issue a range of commands about what the user wishes to do with handdrawn whiteboard...
Ubiquitous Electronic Tagging (1999)
The automatic identification industry is growing rapidly. Tags occur in many forms and appear on everything from luggage at the airport, to dogs, trains and fresh fruit. As with many advancing...
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Michael Baer, Jason Ellis
medium to create a peripheral display. Our goal is to leverage these natural abilities and create an interface that enriches the physical world without being distracting. The information we provide...
The Design and Use of Squeezable Computers: An Exploration of Manipulative User Interfaces (1998)
Beverly L. Harrison, Ken Fishkin, Anuj Gujar, Carlos Mochon, Roy Want
This paper reports on the design and use of tactile user interfaces embedded within or wrapped around the devices that they control. We discuss three different interaction prototypes which we built....
Activating Everyday Objects (1998)
Roy Want, Mark Weiser, Elizabeth Mynatt
this paper, we discuss the inherent advantages of enhancing everyday objects with computation, describe three key research problems that must be addressed to achieve these advantages and outline our...
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Michael Baer, Jason B. Ellis
In this paper, we describe the process behind the design of Audio Aura. The goal of Audio Aura is to provide serendipitous information, via background auditory cues, that is tied to people's...
An overview of the ParcTab ubiquitous computing experiment (1995)
Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, ...
The PARCTAB system integrates a palm-sized mobile computer into an office network. This project serves as a preliminary testbed for Ubiquitous Computing, a philosophy originating at Xerox PARC that...
An Overview of the ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment (1995)
Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, ...
This paper describes the Ubiquitous Computing philosophy, the PARCTAB system, user-interface issues for small devices, and our experience in developing and testing a variety of mobile applications.
Context-aware computing applications (1994)
Bill N. Schilit, Norman Adams, Roy Want
This paper describes software that examines and reacts to an individual’s changing context. Such software can promote and mediate people’s interactions with devices, computers, and other people,...
Context-Aware Computing Applications (1994)
Bill Schilit Norman, Norman Adams, Roy Want
This paper describes software that examines and reacts to an individual's changing context. Such software can promote and mediate people's interactions with devices, computers, and other...
Context-Aware Computing Applications (1994)
Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Roy Want
This paper describes systems that examine and react to an individual's changing context. Such systems can promote and mediate people's interactions with devices, computers, and other...
Context-Aware Computing Applications (1994)
Bill N. Schilit, Norman Adams, Roy Want
This paper describes software that examines and reacts to an individual's changing context. Such software can promote and mediate people's interactions with devices, computers, and other...
An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers (1993)
Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Bill N. Schilit, Michael Tso, Roy Want.
The PARCTAB infrared network provides a flexible infrastructure for research into wireless mobile computing. The network consists of a collection of room-sized cells each wired with a base station...
The PARCTAB Mobile Computing System (1993)
Bill N. Schilit, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Michael Tso, Roy Want
Introduction The PARCTAB is a personal digital assistant (PDA) that communicates via infrared (IR) data-packets to a network of IR transceivers. The infrared network is designed for in-building use,...
The Active Badge Location System (1992)
Roy Want, Veronica Falcao, Jon Gibbons
Integration of telephone systems with computer systems is an important part of the development of the automated office. Much work has already been undertaken integrating digital voice and data into a...
Personal Interactive Computing Objects (1992)
Technology is usually the main driving force behind the capabilities of our computer systems and as a result a change in technology can have far reaching consequences for the architecture of future...
The Active Badge Location System (1992)
Roy Want, Andy Hopper, Veronica Falco, Jonathan Gibbons
A novel system for the location of people in an office environment is described. Members of staff wear badges that transmit signals providing information about their location to a centralized...
Personal Interactive Computing Objects (1992)
Technology is usually the main driving force behind the capabilities of our computer systems and as a result a change in technology can have far reaching consequences for the architecture of future...
Reliable management of voice in a distrubuted system. (1987)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1987.
The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment
Roy Want, Bill N. Schilit, Norman I. Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Pedersen, David Goldberg, ...
This paper describes the UbiquitousComputing philosophy, the PARCTAB system, user-interface issues for small devices, and our experience developing and testing a variety of mobile applications. 1...