Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing in a Corporate Conference Room

Abstract

This paper discusses pervasive and ubiquitous computing in a smart room environment. The system we describe resides in an operational conference room at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. This environment is currently used by a small number of volunteer participants in order for us to accommodate user input early and frequently in the development cycle. In this environment, an embodied agent assists meeting participants with operating room devices, including those used for video teleconferencing (VTC). Primary system components include an interaction manager, avatar, speech recognizer, text-to-speech engine, room control application, macro player, biogate (face recognition) system, and context model. We are also introducing location-tracking and vision-based gesture recognition in the near future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2004
Accession Number
AD1110512

Entities

People

  • Abigail S. Gertner
  • David E. Mireles
  • Edwin H. Kemon
  • James A. Van Guilder
  • Lisa D. Harper
  • Michael E. Shadid
  • Paul M. Herceg
  • Thomas T. Hines

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Authentication
  • Autonomous Agents
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Control Panels
  • Control Systems
  • Environment
  • Grammars
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Language
  • Microphones
  • Networks
  • Observation
  • Ontologies
  • Recognition
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • User Interface
  • Verification Tests
  • Video Teleconferencing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy