[ Nomadic Radio ]

[ Problem ]

• Provide dynamic information to mobile users (away from desktops).
• Adaptive filtering of information based on the contextual activity of the user.
• Seamless capture of information in the user's environment.
• Structure information for different views into the data.
• New modes of audio communication between remote users
• Create peripheral interfaces that don't require active visual attention.

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[ Concept ]

• Use the metaphor of "Radio" to present active broadcasts of audio-based information.
• Information such as voice-mail, email, schedule, weather, traffic, music delivered to "nomadic listeners" on wearable audio-only computing devices.
• Timely delivery of important messages based on time, place, relevance, user's listening patterns, and desired level of interruption.
• Structuring simultaneous and spatialized presentation of audio streams for efficient browsing of content.
• Indexing recorded audio for retrieval by listener and for generation of structured web transcripts.
• Peripheral Awareness of users and Asynchronous voice messaging.

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[ Architecture ]

• Active Emitters - act as Information Agents i.e. plug-in filters for voice-mail, news, stocks, weather, calendar, etc. (design your own). Agents act as filters that monitor information services and send back relevant data to central server.
• Radio Server - manages and structures incoming information for appropriate delivery to nomadic listeners. Enables awareness & communication between multiple users. Also allows generation of WWW-based views of recorded information.
• Nomadic Listeners - Maintains a model of user listening patterns (messages heard, desired interruption, audio presentation) and contextual activity of user (via time, position - IR & GPS, prior tasks, calendar, environmental sound) to dynamically create personalized 3D audio presentation as Active Broadcasts in the listener's personal audio space. Allows recording (Transmissions), retrieval (Tuning) and communication (2-way Asynchronous Transmissions) with other users.

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[ Applications ]

• Personal Audio Assistant: Provides personalized news, traffic/weather/stock reports, vmail, email, calendar, & music. Modeling of user's listening patterns and daily tasks for timely delivery of audio messages. Allow voice communication with remote users.
• Radio-Web Journalist: Scenario - Journalist in Bosnia transmits latest report via a networked wearable computer. The recorded audio is structured with time, place, images and contextual information for dynamic generation of WWW-based news transcripts.
• Wireless Theater: creating and experiencing radio-like narratives through nomadic actors in physical environments.

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Last modified: Fri May 23 11:56:00 EDT