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Wearable Sensing to Annotate Meeting Recordings and for Context Aware Notification
Bernt Schiele
ETH Zuerich
Informatik-Kolloquium
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4
Expert Audience
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Date, Time and Location
Friday, 31 October 2003
15:00
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45 - FR 6.2
HS 01
Saarbrücken
Abstract
http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/top/ik.php
In this talk I will argue that a promising direction of
wearable computing is to make the computers more aware of
the situation the user is in and to model the user\'s
context. In particular I will motivate the use of wearable
sensors such as cameras, micropones and acclerometers
through two research projects from my group:
1. Wearable Sensing to Annotate Meeting Recordings: We
propose to use wearable computers and sensor systems to
generate personal contextual annotations in audio visual
recordings of meetings. Such annotations are essential to
faciliate efficient retrieval of relevant information from
large audio visual databases. I will describe how useful
annotations can be derived from cheap and unobtrusive
sensors such as accelerometers and microphones.
2. Context-Aware Notification for Wearable Computing Context
information obtained from body-worn sensors can be used to
mediate notifications for a wearable computer. In particular
we introduce a model which uses two axes, namely personal
and social interruptability of the user in order to decide
both whether or not to notify the user and to decide which
notification modality to use. Rather than to model and
recognize the complete context of the user we argue that
personal and social interruptability can be derived directly
from various sensors by the combination of tendencies. We
show the feasibility of the approach using wearable sensors
for acceleration, audio, and location.
In this talk I will argue that a promising direction of
wearable computing is to make the computers more aware of
the situation the user is in and to model the user\'s
context. In particular I will motivate the use of wearable
sensors such as cameras, micropones and acclerometers
through two research projects from my group:
1. Wearable Sensing to Annotate Meeting Recordings: We
propose to use wearable computers and sensor systems to
generate personal contextual annotations in audio visual
recordings of meetings. Such annotations are essential to
faciliate efficient retrieval of relevant information from
large audio visual databases. I will describe how useful
annotations can be derived from cheap and unobtrusive
sensors such as accelerometers and microphones.
2. Context-Aware Notification for Wearable Computing Context
information obtained from body-worn sensors can be used to
mediate notifications for a wearable computer. In particular
we introduce a model which uses two axes, namely personal
and social interruptability of the user in order to decide
both whether or not to notify the user and to decide which
notification modality to use. Rather than to model and
recognize the complete context of the user we argue that
personal and social interruptability can be derived directly
from various sensors by the combination of tendencies. We
show the feasibility of the approach using wearable sensors
for acceleration, audio, and location.
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