| Task-driven
Computing |
- Capture of high-level user intent
- Suppression of low-level details from user
- Intelligent suspend/resume
- Seamless transitions to alternative platforms and applications
- Proactive interactions with user
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| Energy-aware
Adaptation |
- Dynamic change of application fidelity for reduced energy use
- Battery life extension to user-specified goal
- Tools for mapping energy use to software structure
- Graceful integration with hardware-level power management
- Energy locality
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| Intelligent
Networking |
- Rich API for expressive QoS specifications
- Bidirectional notification capability
- Proactive application and user notification
- Decentralized coordination of corrective actions
- Network weather service
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| Resource
Opportunism |
- Ability to “live off the land”
- Discovery of compute servers and data staging servers
- Anticipatory data staging to reduce entry latency
- Adaptive policies for local vs. remote execution
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Speech
Recognition,
Language Translation,
Augmented Reality
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- Footprint reduction for mobile hardware
- Multi-fidelity techniques for reduced resource usage
- Offloading on compute servers
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| Multimodal
User Interfaces |
- Hands-free operation
- Distraction minimization
- Speech-driven interfaces
- Gesture recognition
- Eye-tracking
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| Nomadic
Data Access |
- Disconnected operation
- Bandwidth adaptive, weakly-connected operation
- Transparent switching of overlay networks
- Conflict detection and resolution
- Robustness, reliability, rapid failover
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| Wearable
computers |
- Rapid prototyping
- Design for wearability
- User-centric design
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| User
Interface Adaptability |
- Multimodal input-output
- Dynamic switching of modality
- Platform-specific considerations
- Small-screen display techniques
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| Data
and Network Adaptability |
- API for application-aware adaptation
- Tolerance windows and asynchronous notification
- Low-overhead resource monitoring
- Transcoding for fidelity changes
- Network QoS
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| Software
Composition |
- Typed object managers
- Dynamic discovery of modules
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| Proxies/Agents |
- Proactive notification and triggers
- Mobile code
- Java
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| Collaboration |
- Virtual whiteboards
- Intelligent workspaces
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| Wireless
networking |
- WaveLAN
- Bluetooth
- InfraRed
- Overlay networking
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| Security
and privacy |
- Caching trust rather than content
- Establishing trust in surrogates
- Selective control of location information
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| User/Virtual
Space Interaction |
- Interaction techniques for mobile users
- Suite of interfaces with the Virtual Information Space (VIS)
- Output modes for differentiating information
- Context sensitive computing
- Integrated system enabling users to run through sample scenarios that
demonstrate our interaction concepts
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| Evaluation
Metrics and Methodologies |
- Measures of user distraction
- Benchmark problems for system adaptation
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