Weekly Discussion Group on Future Computing Environments

Fall Quarter 1995

CS 8011 H

Mondays 4:30-6:00pm in the GVU Conference Room

Instructors

General information

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Schedule

Week 1: 9/25

Introduction Gregory Abowd

Week 2: 10/2

Capturing group interaction: Chris Atkeson

Papers

Scott L. Minneman and Steve R. Harrison, Where Were We: making and using near-synchronous, pre-narrative video, ACM Multimedia 93, pages 207-214.

Karon Weber and Alex Poon, Marquee: A Tool for Real-Time Video Logging, CHI'94, pages 58-64.

Week 3: 10/9

Ubiquitous computing: Nick Sawhney

Papers: Roy Want, Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Karin Petersen, David Goldberg, John Ellis and Mark Weiser, The ParcTab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment, Xerox PARC Technical Report CSL-95-1, March 1995.

You can review the html-foils for the talk here.

Week 4: 10/16

Video conferencing: Shawn Elson

Papers: Interaction Design for Shared World-Wide Web Annotations

Week 5: 10/23

Applications of vision: Dietmar Aust

Papers: 1. Wellner P. "Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDesk." Comm. ACM, Vol. 36(7), (July 1993) pp. 87-96.; 2. Toshifumi Arai et alteri: "InteractiveDESK: A Computer-augmented Desk Which Responds to Operations on Real Objects"; 3. Jun Rekimoto: "Augmented Interaction: The World Through the Computer", UIST 1995 (to appear); 4. James L.Crowley, Joelle Coutaz: "Vision for Man Machine Interaction", ECHI, 1995

You can review the html-foils for the talk here.

Week 6: 10/30

Mobile computing: Tom Gay

Papers: Mobile computing resources on WWW

Week 7: 11/6

Wireless WWW: Jeremy Heiner

Papers: Dynamic Documents: Mobile Wireless Access to the WWW (Postscript version of the paper); Dynamic Documents: (More info in HTML); Mobisaic: An Information System for a Mobile Wireless Computing Environment (Postscript version of the paper); Mobisaic: (More info in HTML)

You can review the html-foils for the talk here.

Week 8: 11/13

The Web as a Desktop: Jim Pitkow

Suggested Readings
General topics:: W3C: On Mobile Code; W3C: The Web as a Distributed Application Platform
Object Desktops/Systems (this seems more like the target):: NeXT: Web Objects; The Network Desktop; The Tycoon Project; Stardock announces Object Desktop
Java:: Java(tm): Programming for the Internet
KQML/Agents:: Knowledge Query & Manipulation Language

Week 9: 11/20

Conference update

Week 10: 11/27

First we will attend a GVU special event:


                     Thomas Ball
                  AT&T Bell Laboratories

           Monday, November 27, 1995 at 4:00 pm
                Room 102 A Pettit Building

      "Tracking and Viewing Modifications on the Web"

At 5:00 pm in the GVU conference room then:

More on video indexing:

Papers: Zhang et al.: "Video Parsing, Retrieval and Browsing: An Integrated and Content-Based Solution"; Taniguchi et al.: "An Intuitive and Efficient Access Interface to Real-Time Incoming Video Based on Automatic Indexing."; Brown et al.: "Automatic Content-Based Retrieval of Broadcast News."

Week 11: 12/4

The Zenith Cruise Pad: Charlie Pierce, Zenith Data Systems.

General Information

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