# Presentation: 702538

## Directions in Next Generation Information and Telecommunication Technologies

***Gregg Vanderheiden***
***December 5, 2001***

## The pace of change is breathtaking

## We already have  Web servers that the size of a Pea

## iPic

## And people are working on smart dust ....

## Smart Dust Components

**We will soon be able to alter environments to fit our needs.**

## Slide 11

**Notes:**
Let us look at michel. She lives somewhere in New York. There is a lot of equipment in the home. Rather she would like to have it like this ...

## Slide 12

**Notes:**
But then she needs the tv, she want to call a friend, and she uses a pda as a plastic interactive screen. 

## Slide 13

**Notes:**
While reading the book she wants to do that on her favorite beach in normandie france, the boy is real, he moves so it is a true snapshot of that beach, not a still photo

## Slide 14

**Notes:**
Or in a more romantic mood she likes to see the Champs Elysees in Paris

## Slide 15

**Notes:**
Or again in a more romantic environment. 

## And environments that can interact with us and give us feedback

## SensatexSmart Shirt System

## Project OXYGEN (MIT)

## We will have the ability to replace the interface on a products with an interface which better meets our needs and constraints

## NCITS – V2

## Braille Lite PIX

## We have computers we can wear...

## CharmITCharmed Technology

## Computers integrated into our clothes

## Wearable ElectronicsICD+ Jacket (Philips)

## Or on our hands and arms and fingers

## Digital Jewelry (IBM)

## Bluetooth Enabled Headsets

**“****Cut the cord...”**
**Plantronics M1000 wireless headset **

## Embedded into our glasses

## Remembered SpectaclesMIT Media Lab

## We will not only be able to have an instant display of anything we want –

## But we will also be able to superimpose an altered reality on the reality around us to make it better accommodate us.  

## Language translation – projection on scene

**Notes:**
View through the glasses with written language translation

## We will be able to summon assistance on Demand

## Assistance Mentoring Services

- Remote Assistance(“DesktopStreaming”)

- Telecoaching

*Expertcity Inc.*

## Personal Services on Demand

**Service Spectrum**

**Notes:**
The Personal Services on Demand concept is a variety of services available anywhere, anytime. Most services in this concept are modality translation services, which render information from one specific presentation form (mode) to another.  Each service is tailored to a person’s communication needs regarding temporary, or permanent functional limitations.

The infrastructure for these services is becoming possible as a result of recent technological advancements in wide-area, high-bandwidth networks and wireless communication technologies.

Personal services on demand can be provided by three different layers.  All services could be available today in the human-assisted layer.

Explain Try Harder concept. User can “try harder” by gracefully switching service layers. This feature allows for migration from a mostly human-provided service provision to a fully-automated service provision some day in the future.

There are a variety of service access devices.  Small, wireless devices bring the real “anywhere at anytime” feature to the user.  The trend is that these devices are “naturally” integrated in our environment, so that we are not aware of them any more (pervasive computing).

I will give brief introductions to each of the mentioned services in the following.  I will hereby focus on the state of research that could lead to fully automated provisions of these services.  Anyway, all services can be provided by humans today.

**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).**

## Super Thin TechnologyPaper Phone (Dieceland)

## We have foldable keyboards

## Fabric ElectronicsElectroTextiles

## PDAs the size of a credit card...REX 6000 MicroPDA (Xircom)

## Olfactory User Interfaces

**DigiScents**

## Adaptive Brain Interfaces ESPRIT Project 28193

## Web sites you can talk to.Ramona takes you to the future  - KurzweilAI.net

**And we are now talking about switches that are one molecule... ****and one atom...**** in size.**

**Notes:**
Access anything – anywhere (that you have permission)
Short link to local net or to box in pocket
Two way telecommunication
Auto translation
2 cameras
Take pictures
Take movies (never run out of film)
Video phone
Show people things
ZOOM in  -  enlarge
Mirror

Capture/Read
Lookup 
Translate
Stitch images
Talk to it – it to you
Earbud – (wireless)
Hands free
Eyes free
Heads Up Display
Touchscreen - Silent operation
Instant help - with picture if needed  (show people what you see)
Knows where you are“Where is the closest....?”

**We cannot really comprehend **
**what all we will be able to do.  **

## Lets Come Back to Today

## Phones that turn into PDAs

## PDAs that turn into phones

## And PDA / Phones 

## Reference Designs

- Low Vision
- Blindness
- Hard of Hearing
- Deaf
- Physical
- Cognitive
- Language
- Reading
- Using technologies all in phones today
- Changes to the software

## Example of a Total Conversation User Interface

**Also for Text Telephony**

**Example of a Total Conversation User Interface**

## Total Conversation -a Complete Standardized  Family

- H.248 Text - aware Gateway   (Annex F)

- RTP

-      IETF  SIP

- SDP

- IP

- Network

- transmission

- Voice

- and

- video

- T.140

- IP

- GSM text

- Total Conversation service defined in ITU-T F.703

## 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.

## 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?