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what do you wish to automate on your notebook?

Tue, 2008-04-15 20:15 — wahlau

Dear Internet,

i just wonder, if your notebook can adapt its settings according to the environment you are current in, what are things you wish to see or have? At this point we can at least get the best connection (via NetworkManager) and perhaps best display (via xrandr/xorg), but most of the time we still need to configure a little here and there. Is it necessary to have an "intelligent system" that knows what it should serve you according to your current situation? Or the system should always be passive?

Seamless

Fri, 2007-08-31 16:14 — wahlau
ever wonder what this word actually mean? click here to read on.

How location based services can be useful

Fri, 2007-08-31 15:46 — wahlau

location based services might be something new to some of you, but it is moving strong forward to prepare itself for the future. The LBS is a concept that uses location based information to provide services or functionality. Think in this direction - you are in the middle of the city, you are hungry, the service provider can locate nearby restaurant that suites your taste and likings, and tell you how to get there easily. Or you are planning to go out, but have no idea where. You can check out and see where your friends are in town, and make a suggestion where everyone should meet.

we do similar things too today, but they are far too costly or complicated. Take the second scenario, for example. If we were to do this, we usually need to call the friends up, and make agreement among ourselve before we can decide on one place. Some might suggest to use conference... yeah, but why do this manually, when a service provider can do this automatically?

The field of location based services can be very broad. It can be applied in areas like security and safety, or used in enterprises (think DHL global tracking 2.0), or to be offered to consumers or government. If you have watched Minority Report, you can see how location can be used to provide various advanced services to their potential users. Walk around the town, and your mobile ring to tell you something you might be interested to buy just 5m away, because your supply just went out ;)

In this direction we foresee how future can look like. More automation will take place. We save time, while still being able to make decisions ourselves. The services should never take over our lives. Instead, they compliment our daily lives.

what do you think about such a future?

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The vision continues

Thu, 2007-07-05 18:57 — wahlau

if you have never learn anything about Mark and his vision on Ubiquitous Computing , read the following scenario suggested by him:

Sal awakens: she smells coffee. A few minutes ago her alarm clock,
alerted by her restless rolling before waking, had quietly asked
"coffee?", and she had mumbled "yes." "Yes" and "no" are the only words
it knows.

the Hug shirt

Thu, 2007-04-12 20:13 — wahlau

ever though how close are the future world to us now? following a link i came to Current TV and saw a videocast on Hug shirt by Cute Circuit. it was really cool idea. Pressure can be applied on different areas on the hug shirt, and the values of the different areas will be measured and passed via bluetooth to a mobile phone. This can be then sent to another hug shirt user where you want your "hugs" to be sent. The received message on the other end will inteprate and send the values to the recepient's hug shirt. The shirt will then apply vibration and warmth on the spots pressed by the sender to simulate hug :)

the hug shirt - screenshot from the videocast

Paper: MPTrain: A Mobile, Music and Physiology-Based Personal Trainer

Fri, 2006-10-20 20:39 — wahlau

A Mobile, Music and Physiology-Based Personal Trainer

by Nuria Oliver and Fernando Flores-Mangas, available here.

Conference: MobileHCI'06, September 12-15, 2006, Helsinki, Finland

Summary:
The paper presents MPTrain, a mobile phone based system that uses music to assist in users' exercise activities. With sensors attached to body, and sensor data being received on a mobile phone, suitable types of music would be chosen and played in order to encourage users to change their exercise method/approach/speed. The preliminary tests and results are done with jogging as selected sport exercise.

Information and us

Wed, 2006-07-12 04:00 — wahlau

i am reading this book from Peter Morville now, and trying to learn to see things the way the author does. In his book he quoted this person, Calvin Mooers and his Mooers' law:

Maemo 2.0 and Scratchbox

Fri, 2006-06-23 17:26 — wahlau

you might shout "oh no, not another one!?", but i know i just need to note down things i have done, so that i can redo them easily without search around the whole world just to overcome a simple step which can take you and me another precious 20 minutes.

1. SDK installation and start

- to start preparing your box for SDK development, read this. 

- it might be useful to double check your scratchbox distribution/version, and also to reinstall it according to the one mentioned in the wiki. it saves you at least the trouble to have something different from the given example. 
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