Fuse By: Matt Bettonville, Mark Diaz, Matt Lathrop

User  Cars with more than one person in them  Group of people in a car who desire to socially interact with each other.  Has a smartphone  Our Problem: People are stuck together, but the car provides ways for those people to interact more easily

Technology  People now carry devices that store information about you and can communicate with other devices  Car-based LAN that phones connect to  Smartphone can serve your personal preferences  Car has internet connection

Idea  Group Assistant  Smartphones are like a Personal Assistant  Trust with personal information  Represents you to the world  Presents the digital world to you  Cars can leverage your personal assistants  Finding commonality in personal information  Can represent the group to the world  Can present digital information the group might find interesting

Mobile devices will connect to high-speed Internet through the Fuse system. Fuse pulls shared data from each mobile device in the car and forms a model of the group’s preferences for music, food, entertainment and more. Based the model, Fuse can select music that everyone in the car will enjoy, as shown above.

The group decides they want to go to a movie, and Fuse helps them find one that everyone will enjoy. Fuse finds nearby theaters and allows them to bid in real time to give you the best group rate.

Fuse acts as a intermediary between the phones and the Internet to facilitate group actions, such as buying movie tickets. Fuse always represents the entire group to the Internet and not just a single device, which prevents any mishaps with getting the right tickets.

Since the car represents the group to the internet it can also post to social networking sites as a group. People then can see that certain people are together and reply to the entire group at once. Using this technology Fuse enables the entire group to communicate with the world as a unit.

In addition to Fuse being able to communicate with the world it can also pull relevant information from the internet that the group might find interesting. For example, the car could present news articles (both professional and social news) to the group that the entire group would think are important.

In addition to music fuse can also leverage other data about the group to help the group make decisions. One example is if the group decided they wanted to stop for food on the way to the movie. The car can use the large amounts of data available to it to make the best decision based not only on what the group likes, but where they are going and what will be convenient.

Once at the restaurant the car again acts as an ambassador for the entire group and places the group’s order and then distributes the cost back to each individual smartphone based on what they ordered.

Since Fuse knows so much about what is happening in the car it can use that data to change how it operates in the world. After stopping for dinner fuse realizes the group is running a little late for the movie. Fortunately for the group, since the car represents all of them, fuse knows to direct the car to the HOV lane and to the carpool parking spot right by the door.