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"Easily form and enrich relationships"
Computing devices are increasingly being used as communicating devices. While these devices have given us many different ways to communicate, there's been little progress in using the power and flexibility of computing technologies to make communication richer. As everyone who has used email or instant messaging knows, it's easy to be misunderstood. What's needed are ways to convey more meaning and intention - ways to feel present in a conversation or meeting when you're not.
Intel Research's efforts to make devices more richly communicative focus on enriching relationships, groups and communities by making computer-mediated communication more natural, pervasive and effective. Our research encompasses several key areas and directions.
- Ways to form richly communicative areas or "spaces" that integrate information across many sources, devices, individuals, groups and societies. This includes leveraging both physical and virtual worlds.
- Bridging connectivity gaps between the developing and developed world.
- Solutions for seamlessly interweaving foreground and background communication. This includes always-on, always available communications on whatever device is available, as well as stitching together multiple modalities such as voice, text, video, images, touch and even smell.
One project underway is modeling group-level behavior through continuous contextual sensing using MPS, GPS and Wi-Fi. We're also conducting ethnographic research exploring the challenges to technology adoption in emerging economies and low-income communities. Solutions we're investigating include delay-tolerant networking solutions for environments with poor connectivity, and affordable and robust wireless networking for rural areas.
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Common Sense project
Citizens are often motivated to seek information about environmental conditions, but lack the tools to gather, analyze, and share data. However, increasing numbers of mobile devices have the potential to become personal environmental sensors. The Common Sense project is leveraging these emerging capabilities by developing environmental sensing platforms that empower individuals and communities to produce credible information that can be understood by non-experts, in order to influence environmental regulations and policies and effect positive societal change.
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Mash Maker: the Web the Way you Want it
Mash Maker: the Web the Way you Want it Don’t just browse the web. Manipulate it, visualize it, repurpose it, and twist it into a form that gives you the information that you want, presented the way you want it.
Mash Maker is a web browser extension that learns what you like and suggests ways that it can enhance the pages your browse to give you the information you want, rather than the information that the creators of the web sites thought you would want. As you browse the web, mash maker suggests "mashups" that you can apply to the current page, bringing in information and visualizations from other sources.
Mashups are composed from "widgets" – little mini-applications that are written by third parties according to an open API and can visualize and extend, and manipulate the information on a page. Widgets understand the meaning of web pages using a collaboratively maintained database of "extractors" that tell Mash Maker how to extract knowledge from pages on the web. Once a user has assembled some widgets into a mashup that they like, they can save this mashup and share it with the community. Mash maker will then suggest this mashup to other users who might find that mashup useful. Right now, the web largely consists of a collection of separate web site islands, each with their own information, and their own interface, and each largely disconnected from the others. The aim of Mash Maker is to transform the web into a collection of knowledge that can be processed by widgets and used to produce information and interfaces that are personalized for the user, and potentially combine information from many different sources.
Steerable Antennas Long-distance wireless applications typically use directional antennas that provide the high gains necessary for communicating over great distances. However, the deployment of conventional directional antennas, such as parabolic reflectors, presents practical problems with initial installation and maintaining optimal alignment with remote counterparts over time. Intel researchers are collaborating with researchers at Intel Russia and the Radiophysics Department of the Nizhny Novgorod State University to explore the design and implementation of low-cost, electrically steerable antennas that provide high gain and directionality combined with the ability to steer the antenna pattern in both azimuth and elevation. In effect, these antennas combine the best aspects of omni-directional and directional antennas and provide capabilities not previously available, offering the potential to decrease the cost of communications infrastructure in emerging regions.
Affordable Networking for Rural Areas
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Meet some of the researchers that drive our Essential Computing.
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