This document describes Project Oxygen, which aims to make computation human-centered by making it freely available everywhere through various integrated technologies. It discusses the vision of ubiquitous computing, the user and system technologies like speech/vision recognition and adaptive software. It outlines the intelligent room and handheld devices that are being developed, and how networks and perpetual interaction techniques will allow natural human communication with these systems. The challenges of developing a fully embedded, nomadic, adaptable and eternal computing system are also mentioned.

2. Pervasive, Human Centered Computing
Overview of Project Oxygen
Device technologies
Network technologies
Software technologies
Perpetual technologies
User technologies
Oxygen Today
Conclusion

3. What is Project Oxygen
 The idea of the project is to make computation
human centered and responsive to human needs
rather than having people catering to expensive
machine

4. INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGY THAT
ADDRESS HUMAN NEEDS

6. Vision
 In the future, computation will be human-centered.
 It will be freely available everywhere, like batteries and
power sockets, or oxygen in the air we breathe.
 It will enter the human world, handling our goals and
needs and helping us to do more while doing less.

7. Approach
 Combination of specific user & system technologies
 User technologies address human needs.
 Speech and vision technologies enable us to communicate
with Oxygen as if we're interacting with another person,
saving much time and effort.
 System technologies like software, networks make devices
understand humane way of interaction

8. Space centered computation, embedded in ordinary
environment
 Connected to sensors, suitably encapsulated into physical
objects
 Communicate with each other and nearby handheld
devices (H21)through Dynamically Configured Networks
(N21)
 E21 provide computational power throughout the system
 E21 software is robust, and configurable among
themselves

9. Oxygen Today
The Intelligent Room
 Capable of detecting
motion
 Recognize voice
patterns
 Identify a person by face
Sensors

10. Generic devices also called Universal Personal Appliances
 They configure themselves according to the person using
them
 Being small and lightweight, they have few transducers
 They have less computational power than E21
 Can be configured to be used as radio, cellphone or even
TV
 Power efficient, the software controls the power
consumption

11.  E21(Embedded devices ) Intelligent Spaces
 Space centered computation, embedded in ordinary
environment
 Populated by cameras, microphones, displays, sound output
 Controls for physical entities like curtains, lighting, door-locks
 People interact in Intelligent Spaces naturally, using speech,
gestures
 H21(Handheld devices) Mobile Devices
 Person centered devices also the Universal Personal Appliances
 Equipped with perpetual transducers such as microphone,
speakers
 Auto reconfigurable, light weight, inexpensive
 Anonymous generic devices

12. Networks make it easy to establish ad-hoc collaborating
communities of
 computer devices
 Through algorithms, protocols and middleware, they
 Configure collaborative regions automatically
 Create topologies and adapt them to change
 Provide automatic resource and location discovery
 Provide secure, authenticated and private access
N21 networks use intentional names rather than
conventional static names
They support location discovery through proximity

13. Software systems adapt - to user, to environment, to
change, to failure
 Project Oxygen's software architecture provides
mechanisms for
 Building applications using distributed components
 Customizing, adapting and altering component behavior
 Person-centric rather than device-centric security
 Disconnected operation and nomadic code
 Eternal Computation: The system must never shut
down or reboot
though components are upgraded, removed and
reinstalled

14. Two kinds of perpetual techniques
 Spoken Interaction
● Users and machine engage in interactive
conversations
● Highly efficient
 Visual Interaction
● User interacts with perpetual modalities
● Use of body language and gestures

15. Speech recognition
 Language understanding
 Language generation
 Speech synthesis

16.  It consists of
 Visual perception subsystem, and
 It recognizes and classify objects and actions
 Complements spoken language subsystem
 Visual rendering subsystem
 Creates 3D scenes from 2D data
 Provide macroscopic view of application supplied
data

17.  User Technologies include
 Knowledge Access
 Access any time, anywhere, almost anything
 Automation
 Automate control of physical environment
 Collaboration
 Connecting people

18. ADVANTAGES
Pervasiveness
Ease of use
Personalized data storage and access
Security
Elimination of need to carry around communication

19. CHALLENGES
To support highly dynamic and varied human activities,
the Oxygen system must master many technical
challenges. It must be-
 embedded
 nomadic
 adaptable
 powerful, yet efficient
 intentional
 eternal

20.  Bringing abundant computation and communication,
as pervasive as free air, naturally into people's life
 Commercial versions of H21 are ready to be launched
 The E21 and N21 will soon be spread everywhere, not
just the labs