The devices thread is concerned with embedded computational artifacts that interact with people or the physical world. In this thread one learns how to create and evaluate devices that operate under physical constraints such as size, power and bandwidth. Examples include PDAs, cell phones, robots, jet engines, and intelligent appliances.
The student who pursues devices can combine it with platforms to build devices that are small, power- and cpu-limited, or intelligence to build automonous robots, or people to study human-robot interaction, or ...
