Supervisor meeting 20 Aug 2008
Part 1 – Wearables
Met with Paddy to talk about Wearable computing Assumptions.
Discussed the short-list that I had come up with: Assumptions about Wearable Computing
Paddy gave his thoughts about what I had come up with – and we came to the following main assumptions that we will look at and question their validity:
- Communication bandwidth is an issue
- What data do we really send? – Sensors/Video/Other
- 3G is quick
- Wearables are individual
- Data is private, Infrastructure is community
- We need to optimize for power
- What if we don’t – usage patterns
- Processing power is minimal
- Not any more – processing power is good – PDA -iPhone etc.
- One managing node
- Emergence
- pure p2p
- individually addressable(ipv6?)
Tasks:
Matt:
Rethink the systems/paradigms/stuff that I have read/seen/tested and see what would happen if we took out these assumptions.
Suggest that these things are not really true anymore, and that they can be considered to be a myth.
Write up an internal paper/report (3 pages) that suggests this, and covers the reasons why, and see what people think. – Debunking the Wearable Myth
Part 2 – Basadaeir
I suggested to Paddy that we should do something with Basadaeir, and that it is one of the missing parts of the construct project, the profiled/static/persistent entity that contributes to the pervasive environment. He agreed that we should develop it, and was planning to require that all new people register with it.
He also suggested a case/research study for it, building collaboration not just through keywords, but also by matching presence of other people at the same time – e.g. when people are often in the same place at the same time, they may be connected somehow.
Tasks:
Matt:
Get the system robust and working – so that people can sign up and start using it –
- CRUD for profiles
- Efficient processing of data
- API for external applications
- Internalised third part applications (like fbook) – so that others can solicit more information about topics – e.g. research keywords.
Paddy:
Will tell people that this system will be available, and will expect that at some point Matt will have it working – no particular timescale.