Enabling a Symphony of Devices

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The*NSERC Portal has stripped this proposal of helpful formatting and hyperlinks. A*version with identical text, but which includes links to all papers and videos*referenced throughout, can be found at the URL below; all logging has been*disabled for the directory to preserve anonymity. This link is included with*permission from NSERC.*** ***http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/discovery_2015 **** ***Imagine you are a*motivational speaker roaming a stage, a politician standing at a podium, a*professor tethered to a laptop, or a member of small group meeting. Foreseeing*and designing an application to tailor itself to all of these uses, and*thousands of others, is daunting. You could speak with only a projector; both*you and your audience would only see your slides. But what if you connected a*phone, and it displayed a list of slides, a timer, and your speaker notes. If*you added a smart watch, the display on your wrist could show you not only the*current time, but also the timer and the progression of your talk. Putting on a*head-mounted display, such as Google Glass would move your speaker notes,*providing a private teleprompter. What if you would like your hands free? Put*the phone away and the display of available slides resizes itself and appears*on your Glass. You could advance the slides by pressing a button on the watch,*by speaking a command, or by tapping the side of your Glass. Each of these*configurations is appropriate for a different type of talk. My work focuses on*how the user can tailor an application's behavior simply by adding the right*devices, and enabling the software to reshape and optimize its user experience*to the new topology. *** ***Critical to*achieving this future is meeting the challenge to enable software to grow and*shrink to take advantage of all available hardware, without the need for*developers to foresee all hardware combinations in advance. Research in*ubiquitous computing thus far has focused on enabling transitions between*devices, such reading a webpage or book on one device, and then moving it to*another to pick-up at the same point. This just begins to scratch the surface*of what is possible. *******We are develop