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SUMMARY:Modelling and Handling Seams in Wide-Area Sensor Networks - Joe Ne
 wman
DTSTART:20060511T131500Z
DTEND:20060511T140000Z
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CONTACT:Lorisa Dubuc
DESCRIPTION:The fields of Wearable Computing\, Augmented Reality and Ubiqu
 itous Computing are in principle highly convergent\, as they all focus on 
 environments where users perceive\, and intuitively interact with\, their 
 surroundings. However\, the reality as practised in research labs and limi
 ted commercial deployments has been that budgetary and technical constrain
 ts have actually kept these fields separate and distinct. One manifestatio
 n of this separation is in the choice of   sensors used to build systems i
 n each domain.  A truly cross-disciplinary project has to incorporate sens
 ors of much greater heterogeneity than has occurred heretofore. The way in
  which sensors are deployed results in spatial seams that can act as obsta
 cles to the provision of services across different areas. This paper takes
  an architectural approach to handling events from different tracking syst
 ems\, maintaining a consistent spatial model of people and objects\, accor
 ding to the needs expressed by clients and the constraints imposed by the 
 system.
LOCATION:Rainbow Room\, Computer Laboratory
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