The Proximal Workspace Architecture: A Latency- focused ...

[Pages:20]The Proximal Workspace Architecture: A Latency-

focused Approach to Supporting Context-Aware

Applications

Cynthia Taylor UC San Diego

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? Background and Motivation

? Small Devices ? Big Applications ? Thin Clients

? System Architecture ? Adaptation of Google Earth ? Next Steps

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Small Devices

Zypad Wearable

iPhone

Netbook

Nanotech Contact Lens Display (UW)

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Big Applications

Virtual Worlds

Maps

Augmented Reality

? Data/Computation Intensive, Context Dependent

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Google Earth 3D Ancient Rome

? Interactively explore ancient Roman buildings

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Application Characteristics

? Data Intensive ? Computation Intensive ? Sensor data ? Frequent user-interaction ? Poor native performance on client

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? Background and Motivation ? System Architecture ? Terminals ? World ? Architecture ? Adaptation of Applications ? Completed Work ? Next Steps

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Terminals

GPS video

web user's server server

earpiece PDA

Work space

game

web

server server

terminals

world

? A collection of input/output devices and

sensors

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