Pervasive Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp).pptVIP

Pervasive Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) Lecture #1: Introduction Hao-hua Chu (朱浩華) What is UbiComp? Keynote talk at the 26th Conference of Taiwan Occupational Therapy, November 2007 Students Intro Please tell us about: Current (future) research area, interests, faculty advisor Background Hardware skills Software programming skills (C/C++, Java) User interface Computer vision and sensors Interdisciplinary English (presentation, reading, and writing) Why are you interested in this course? Course Outline Reading list will be finalized next week. Reading list intro UbiComp vision UbiComp criticized Smart objects Context-awareness Localization systems Tangible interaction ambient display Persuasive objects (3) Autism technology Course Objectives To prepare us (students and faculty) for research in UbiComp research. Learning by reading discussing papers Define problems challenges Understand state-of-art techniques solutions Identify limitations of state-of-art solutions Learning by doing projects The project must have a research component. What more can you get out of this course? Develop your own belief on where computer science is going Learn research experiences Scenario, problem definition, related work survey, design implementation, evaluation, etc. Reading, writing, and presentation skills Collaborative Learning This is a research seminar course, so everyone (faculty and students) will contribute to the learning process. Paper discussion Project presentation UbiComp is a new, fast changing field, so faculty may not know all materials! (Unusual) Course Format Each lecture will discuss 3~5 papers on a specific topic. For each paper, Faculty presenters will pose questions before the start of the class An overview of the paper will be given for 15~20 minutes. Everyone will join the discussion for 15~20 minutes. How to read a paper? For each paper, try to answer the following questions: What is the problem? What is the current state-of-the-art? What is t