1. Gaia Ubiquitous Computing Directions Roy Campbell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. Gaia “Ubiquitous Computing is a technology that resides in the human world and weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life” Mark Weiser

3. Gaia Active Space An Active Space is a physical space coordinated by a responsive context- based software infrastructure that enhances the ability of mobile users to interact and configure their physical and digital environment seamlessly.

4. Gaia Gaia OS Gaia OS is a distributed middleware that provides a generic computational environment and the core services necessary to develop Active Spaces and ubiquitous computing applications.

5. Gaia Active Space: Merging the physical & computational infrastructures

6. Gaia Active Spaces organize networked computer devices into a distributed system that cooperates and coordinates its activities with its mobile users

7. Gaia The human endeavors of creativity and learning in areas from art, music & the humanities to science & engineering become a crucible for new perspectives on how ubiquitous computing can impact society.

8. Gaia Our research on Active Spaces examines how ubiquitous computing can support different physical human activities, from classroom and office activities to entertainment and communication

9. Gaia Our project combines elements of HDTV, sensor networks, plasma touch panels, tracking cameras, mobile devices, speech recognition and synthesis, and location tracking into a rich tapestry.

10. Gaia To enable location aware applications we utilize various location sensing technologies including RFID, biometrics, Bluetooth, WiFi, & Ubisense™. Ubisense represents a new class of UWB-based sensing devices that are economic to deploy in a building and have an accuracy of 6 inches 95% of the time.

11. Gaia Location awareness allows ubiquitous computing environments to tailor themselves according to users’ preferences. Applications can follow users as they move, content can be customized based on users’ locations, and physical surroundings can be customized according to their inhabitants.

12. Gaia Gaia in the classroom empower students and teachers with better technologies for educational interaction and facilitates communication in a seamless fashion encouraging students to participate actively even in large scale class settings.

13. Gaia Gaia in Healthcare allows doctors become more aware of the dynamic health states of their patients and empower nurses to manage patients' health through timely and effective strategies while preserving privacy and controlling access to sensitive data

14. Gaia We are extending the notion of Active Spaces to the Siebel Center, our new Computer Science building, & exploring the security concerns of ubiquitous computing, and new ways to harness the web, mobile devices, & location sensors into ubiquitous context-aware environments

15. Gaia The Gaia Project http://gaia.cs.uiuc.edu/