ITR: Active Information Spaces based on Ubiquitous Computing

该项目研究了一种新的操作系统形式来管理一种名为活动空间的计算模型。它将包含无处不在的计算机的物理空间集成到支持人类活动和应用的计算环境中。随着随时随地无处不在的设备的出现，用户对计算环境的看法超越了计算机的物理限制，被置于周围的物理空间中，并由感知和影响用户周围的空间的计算机来增强。应用程序不仅映射到与监视器中的特定窗口相关联的视图，而且映射到物理环境。因此，物理空间，加上可通信的计算机设备，成为一个分布式计算系统。活动空间有可能创造数十亿美元的产业。自动化手术、协作和参与式学习是几个引人注目的例子。活动空间的操作系统GAIA将通过开发互操作和合作的标准来适应多样性。系统服务通过可重新配置的图形、多媒体和活动空间应用程序跟踪、验证和支持移动用户。统一的对象总线、组件模型和自适应流模型将即插即用扩展到分布式移动无所不在的计算机，协同支持城市、建筑和房间等物理空间内的计算环境。

The project researches a new form of operating system to manage a model ofcomputing called an Active Space. It integrates physical spaces that containubiquitous computers into a computational environment that supports humanactivity and applications. With anytime/anywhere ubiquitous devices, theusers' view of the computational environment is extended beyond the physicallimits of a computer and is placed into the surrounding physical space,augmented with computers that sense and affect that space around the user.Applications become mapped not just to views associated with specificwindows in a monitor but instead to the physical environment. Therefore,the physical space, augmented with communicating computer devices, becomes adistributed computing system.Active Spaces have the potential for creating multi-billion dollarindustries. Automated surgery, collaboration and engaged learning are a fewof the compelling examples. Gaia, an operating system for Active Spaces,will accommodate diversity by exploiting standards for interoperation andcooperation. System services track, authenticate and support mobile userswith reconfigurable graphics, multimedia and Active Space applications. Aunifying object bus, component model, and adaptive stream model extends plugand play to distributed mobile ubiquitous computers cooperating to support acomputational environment within physical spaces like cities, buildings androoms.