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Directions in Next Generation Information and Telecommunication Technologies
Gregg VanderheidenDecember 5, 2001
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The pace of change is breathtaking
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We already have Web servers
that the size of a Pea
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iPic
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And people are working on smart dust ….
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Smart Dust Components
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We will soon be able to alter environments to fit our needs.
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And environments that can interact with us and give us feedback
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SensatexSmart Shirt System
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Project OXYGEN (MIT)
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We will have the ability to replace the interface on a products
with an interface which better meets our needs and constraints
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NCITS – V2
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Braille Lite PIX
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We have computers we can wear…
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CharmITCharmed
Technology
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Computers integrated into our clothes
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Wearable ElectronicsICD+ Jacket (Philips)
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Or on our hands and arms and fingers
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Digital Jewelry (IBM)
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Bluetooth Enabled Headsets
“Cut the cord...”
Plantronics M1000 wireless headset
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Embedded into our glasses
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Remembered SpectaclesMIT Media Lab
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We will not only be able to have an instant display of anything we want –
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But we will also be able to superimpose an altered reality on the reality around us
to make it better accommodate us.
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Language translation – projection on scene
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We will be able to summon assistance on Demand
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Assistance Mentoring Services
Remote Assistance(“DesktopStreaming”)
Telecoaching
Expertcity Inc.
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Personal Services on Demand
Service Spectrum
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We have the potential to have devices so inexpensive that they can be within the reach of anyone,
regardless of their economic status
And inexpensive enough that there will be no concern with providing them even to individuals who may not take care of them, or leave them, or have them
stolen by a bully.
What if the communication systems cost no more than a ball point pen.
Most people would have dozens around and even the poorest could afford them and no-one would steal them. (at least the “BIC” version).
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Super Thin TechnologyPaper Phone (Dieceland)
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We have foldable keyboards
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Fabric ElectronicsElectroTextiles
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PDAs the size of a credit card…REX 6000 MicroPDA (Xircom)
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Olfactory User
Interfaces
DigiScents
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Adaptive Brain Interfaces ESPRIT Project 28193
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Web sites you can talk to.Ramona takes you to the future - KurzweilAI.net
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And we are now talking about switches that are one molecule…
and one atom… in size.
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We cannot really comprehend what all we will be able to do.
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Lets Come Back to Today
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Phones that turn into PDAs
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PDAs that turn into phones
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And PDA / Phones
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Reference Designs
Low Vision
Blindness
Hard of Hearing
Deaf
Physical
Cognitive
Language
Reading
Using technologies all in phones today
Changes to the software
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Also for Text Telephony
VoiceSign lang.
Text in Video call.
Call control
Example of a Total Conversation User Interface
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Total Conversation -a Complete Standardized Family
H.248 Text - aware Gateway (Annex F)
V.18
Text telephony
Transparent
Equalizer for legacy
T.140
PSTN
H.223
V.34/V.80
AL1 H.245
H.324
T.140
Voiceand
video
PSTN
T.124GCC
T.134
T.120 Dataconferencing
T.123
T.140
DATACONF.
H.323
H.225.0
Networkaccess
T.140
RTP H.245
Voiceand
video
IP
H.221
Networkaccess
H.320
H.224
T.140
Voiceand
video
ISDN
3G.324Mobile system
H.223
Mobiletransmission
Voiceand
video
AL1 H.245
T.140
CS MMMobile
RTP
IETF SIP
SDP
IP
Networktransmission
Voiceand
videoT.140
IP
GSMMobile system
CTM
Audio coding
Mobiletransmission
voiceT.140
GSM text
Total Conversation service defined in ITU-T F.703
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Goal
Anyone, can choose to communicate in any form Speech Text Gesture / Sign Image
Gateways allow transfer between all formats for these forms – and between old and new technologies.
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Some Issues - Questions Opportunity to move away from “special telecom technologies” to
“special telecom needs” met with std tech With std software / features With special targeted software
Requires Flexible interfaces (AT takes up slack) Guarantee of network interconnection and gateways (no option)
Old to new Between all new
Comparable cost
What will it take?
Who is responsible?
Will it happen?