Ubiquitous Computing and the Microsoft Surface at UNR

Will Kurt, Applications Development Librarian

UNR’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledgecenter

Ubiquitous Computing

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Computers should ‘plug-in’ to us,not the other way around!

GE’s ecomagination AR

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MIT’s Sixth Sense

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iPHONE!

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Microsoft Surface: It’s a table!

• Okay for Coffee• Notes and text books• Putting feet up• Changing babies (?)

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Ask “How can I enhance the things I already do on a table?”

Surface at UNR

Video of ‘Out of Box’ functionality

What we did out of the box

Video of Customizing OOB

Successful new technologies need to be perceived as valuable not novel

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Creating in-house applications!

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Video of Conway’s Game of Life

The Box has more!

Anatomy App!

Video of the final Anatomy App

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