Pervasive Computing Happening?

Project Oxygen User Technologies Pervasive Environment Speech and Vision Knowledge Access Automation Collaboration Oxygen Attributes Distribution and Mobility Semantic Content Adaptation and Change Information Personalities System Technologies Intelligent Environments Mobile Devices Dynamic Networks Software Architecture Privacy and Security

Intelligent and Computationally Powerful devices (Handheld and Embedded). Recognition of Human-Input, such as – expressions, speech, gestures. Automation of repetitive tasks with learning and fine tuning through use. User Identity – Like a virtual representation of a user – an Information Personality.

What and how? Starting from Ground up! Location Speech Gestures Mobility Dynamic Networking Automation

Device Ontology User Defined Need Based Not generalized Incomplete

Combining Ontologies Different Ontologies may be combined to produce a new ontology.

Existing Ontologies? Not Directly usable Too Comprehensive Need for our own Ontology – Problem Specific

Building an Ontology - Basics Identify Parameters How to Classify Grouping Decisions Consistency