1. Pervasive and wearable computing research 13 September 2006
Pervasive and wearable computing research
13 September 2006

2. UMBC and Ebiquity
UMBC is a research extensive University with a a major focus on Information Technology
Ebiquity is a large and active research group with the goal of
“Building intelligent systems in open, heterogeneous, dynamic, distributed environments”
Current research includes mobile and pervasive computing, security/trust/privacy, semantic web, multiagent systems, advanced databases, and high performance computing
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3. What is UMBC The University of Maryland Baltimore County
One of the three research campuses in the University of Maryland System
Ranked in top tier of nation's research universities--Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive -- by the Carnegie Foundation
Has 500 full time and 335 part time faculty, 10K undergraduate and 2K graduate students
Located in suburban Baltimore County, between Baltimore and Washington DC.
Special focus on science, engineering, information technology and public policy with ~$80M in external research funding in 2003
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5. Human Evolution?
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6. Human Evolution?
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7. Human Evolution?
Pervasive Computing aims to embed computing into our lives, making it as natural as using other ordinary objects like pen, paper, and cups and available anytime and anywhere.
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8. Pervasive Computing
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it ” – Mark Weiser
Think: writing, central heating, electric lighting, …
Not: taking your laptop to the beach, or immersing yourself into a virtual reality
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11. Our intelligent room B P Room Booker Mocha PC 8”x6”x2” Personal Agent
(Semantic Web)
SOAP/OWL
Services
FIPA-ACL/OWL P
Personal Agent
(FIPA/JADE)
Mocha PC 8”x6”x2”
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12. A Typical CoBrA Use Case
Alice in Wonderland*
Alice enters a conference room
The broker detects
Alice’s presence B
The broker negotiates
privacy policy with Alice
Policy says,
“can share with any
agents in the room” A B
The broker builds
the context model
Web
The broker knows
Alice’s role and
intention +
* Our intelligent meeting room
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13. A Typical CoBrA Use Case
Alice in Wonderland
The broker informs
the subscribed agents B A
The projector agent
wants to help Alice
The projector agent
asks slide show info. B
The broker acquires the slide show info. B
Web
The broker informs the projector agent B
The projector agent
sets up the slides
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14. It’s not just for business… Pervasive environments for the Military
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15. (1) Trauma Pod
A DARPA-sponsored project to enable a future generation of unmanned medical systems to save lives on the battlefield
A Trauma Pod will have no human medical personnel on-site to conduct the surgery and will be small enough to be carried by a medical ground or air vehicle.
A human surgeon will conduct procedures from a remote location using teleoperated surgical manipulators with support from automated robotic systems
Phase 1 will perform an unmanned surgical procedure within a hospital OR space.
2020: Automated Trauma Pod treats wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
2005: da Vinci Surgical Robot
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16. UMBC’s role in Trauma Pod
Our role focuses on using RFID technology to track the location and use of medical tools and supplies in the OR
And to integrate this information with
Legacy supply chain systems
Hospital and patient records
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17. ORs will be data rich CAST
Drugs
RFID
RFID
CAST
Tools
RFID
Patient Monitors
Staff
ORs will be awash in low-level data, much of it noisy or incomplete
Challenges include coping with the noise and interpreting the low-level data to recognize high-level events and activities
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18. System Architecture Trend Analyzer Context Aware Agent Rule RFID Base
Patient Monitor
Stream
Processor
(TelegraphCQ)
Continuous
Queries
Trend
Analyzer
Physiological Data
RFID
System
Medicines
Tools
Staff
Assert facts
Context
Aware
Agent
Database
Patient
History
Medical
Supplies
Staff
Assert facts
Rule
Base
Video
Clipper
Events
Medical
Encounter
Record
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20. Ongoing research issues
Languages for devices to exchange and share information using common vocabularies
User configurable policies for trust and privacy
Context aware systems that can anticipate the needs of users and act in advance by “understanding” their situation
Intelligent middleware and agents to
Sense, acquire and share context knowledge
Reason about and maintain consistent context knowledge
Enforce policies for security, trust, safety & privacy
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21. Wearable computing
A new form of human-computer interaction with small body-worn computing components
Always on, always ready, always accessible
Supporting hands busy and eyes busy interactions
Not hand held devices, laptop computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
Will lead to a new form of synergy between human and computer, characterized by long-term adaptation through constancy of user-interface
Good for monitoring a person’s activities, context and medical condition.
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22. Wearable computer, not
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23. Wearable computing, maybe
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24. Wearable computing, today
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25. Babywear
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