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Thai-Lai Pham
Georg Schneider
Stuart Goose
Multimedia/Vidoe Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ
International Multimedia Conference
Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Marina del Rey, California, United States
Pages: 323 - 331
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN:1-58113-198-4
Abstract
In recent years, small screen devices, such as cellular phones or Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), enjoy phenomenal popularity. PDAs can be used to complement traditional computing systems to access personal multimedia information beyond the usage as digital organizers. However, due to the physical limitations accessing rich multimedia contents and diverse services using a single PDA is more difficult. Hence, the Situated Computing Framework (SCF) research project at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) aims to develop a ubiquitous computing infrastructure that facilitates nomadic users to access rich multimedia contents using small screen devices. This paper describes a new distributed computing concept, the Small Screen/Composite Device (SS/CD) framework, which offers mobile users new classes of ubiquitous and mobile multimedia services without to limit the diversity and the richness of the provided services.
My Discussion
This paper, now four years old, seems ahead of its time even now in a way. While most content- and device-creators are thinking in how to adapt content to small screens, the framework discussed in this paper is all about adapting and using the environment to show the data as good as possible on whatever screens and output media are available. The idea behind the framework is that while the user may intitiate requests from a PDA or phone, responses, especially when requiring high visual bandwidth, will automatically be routed to whatever facilities are available to the user at the location the user is. A clinician might request to see a patient's data at a bedside on a PDA, and the media framework will send the text reports back to the PDA, the X-Rays to a larger screen (computer, TV) that may be in the room, and make the phone ring next to the bed to deliver the audio annotations form the observing technician.
The framework seems overdesigned in that the designers were trying to handle the complicated media-delivery scenarions they could come up with, and is strangely silent on having the framework as the user which outputs the user would like to use, seeming to focus on having the framework decide that itself 802.11b/g networking has not been widely deployed yet, nor is RFID on the radar, but the framework should be able to incorporate them. A test are of the framework was made, and it would be worth finding out hwat else on it was published.
Thai-Lai Pham
Georg Schneider
Stuart Goose
Multimedia/Vidoe Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ
International Multimedia Conference
Proceedings of the eighth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Marina del Rey, California, United States
Pages: 323 - 331
Year of Publication: 2000
ISBN:1-58113-198-4
Abstract
In recent years, small screen devices, such as cellular phones or Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), enjoy phenomenal popularity. PDAs can be used to complement traditional computing systems to access personal multimedia information beyond the usage as digital organizers. However, due to the physical limitations accessing rich multimedia contents and diverse services using a single PDA is more difficult. Hence, the Situated Computing Framework (SCF) research project at Siemens Corporate Research (SCR) aims to develop a ubiquitous computing infrastructure that facilitates nomadic users to access rich multimedia contents using small screen devices. This paper describes a new distributed computing concept, the Small Screen/Composite Device (SS/CD) framework, which offers mobile users new classes of ubiquitous and mobile multimedia services without to limit the diversity and the richness of the provided services.
My Discussion
This paper, now four years old, seems ahead of its time even now in a way. While most content- and device-creators are thinking in how to adapt content to small screens, the framework discussed in this paper is all about adapting and using the environment to show the data as good as possible on whatever screens and output media are available. The idea behind the framework is that while the user may intitiate requests from a PDA or phone, responses, especially when requiring high visual bandwidth, will automatically be routed to whatever facilities are available to the user at the location the user is. A clinician might request to see a patient's data at a bedside on a PDA, and the media framework will send the text reports back to the PDA, the X-Rays to a larger screen (computer, TV) that may be in the room, and make the phone ring next to the bed to deliver the audio annotations form the observing technician.
The framework seems overdesigned in that the designers were trying to handle the complicated media-delivery scenarions they could come up with, and is strangely silent on having the framework as the user which outputs the user would like to use, seeming to focus on having the framework decide that itself 802.11b/g networking has not been widely deployed yet, nor is RFID on the radar, but the framework should be able to incorporate them. A test are of the framework was made, and it would be worth finding out hwat else on it was published.
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