1. Pervasive Computing Happening?

2. 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

3. 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.

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

5. Device Ontology
User Defined
Need Based
Not generalized
Incomplete

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

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

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