Carry Small, Live Large is a vision of the mobile future. It is a vision of computing where our experiences—while we work, play and simply go about our daily routines—are greatly amplified and enriched. Through powerful, small form factor mobile devices that have new ways of interacting with the environment around them, offer new ways for users to interact with the device and provide new ways of experiencing internet based data and services, our daily personal entertainment, interactions with others and the environment around us will soon be greatly enhanced.
Research and development behind the Carry Small, Live Large vision is already underway and aims to:
• Enable ever smaller form factor devices with optimal performance and power usage
• Significantly change how devices interact with the environment around them
• Significantly change how we interact with these devices
Smaller, more efficient mobile devices
Radio Research
This research is aimed at making wireless radios and antennas smaller, more flexible and more energy efficient. Digital multi-radios will be able to reconfigure themselves for different networks, seamlessly transfer a connection from one wireless standard to another and even use multiple wireless standards concurrently. They will also use less power and have the ability to deftly cope with an onslaught of interference.
Energy Efficiency
This research is focused on greatly extending the battery life of wireless devices. Platform power management will improve how devices manage their use of power during both idle and active states. Specific subsystem improvements, such as adaptive snoozing of communication systems will further improve energy efficiency.
Platform on a Chip
This research is aimed at integrating a complete set of platform components into a single chip. Deep integration would deliver an overall smaller component footprint, performance improvements, power efficiency and component and potentially manufacturing cost improvements.
How mobile devices interact with their environment
Wireless Sharing
This research is focused on enabling wireless devices to discover, identify and connect with other computing devices. In doing so, they will be able to compose ad-hoc computing systems that are capable of sharing functionality and computing power. Compression and power efficient communication techniques will enable maximum use of available wireless bandwidth.
Privacy/Security
This research is identifying technologies that will help maintain a trusted environment and protect users’ privacy and security. As computing systems become more integrated and able to share information about their users, it is essential that this information exchange be appropriate, secure and initiated/approved by the user.
How we interact with mobile devices
Context Awareness
This research is aimed at making mobile devices smarter and able to dynamically tune themselves to each user and the user’s present situation. Tomorrow’s mobile devices will know where you are and have the ability to anticipate your needs. They will make interactions with your applications, the internet, and other devices more relevant.
Sensors
This research is geared towards improving the use of context. Off the shelf sensors are readily available, but more data does not necessarily lead to better context. Sensor data interpretation and inferencing from that data is critical to accurate and meaningful context.
