Definition
Oxygen enables pervasive, human-centered computing through a combination of specific user and system technologies.
Oxygen's user technologies directly 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. Automation, individualized knowledge access, and collaboration technologies help us perform a wide variety of tasks that we want to do in the ways we like to do them.
Oxygen's system technologies dramatically extend our range by delivering user technologies to us at home, at work, or on the go. Computational devices, called Enviro21s (E21s), embedded in our homes, offices, and cars sense and affect our immediate environment. Hand-held devices, called Handy21s (H21s), empower us to communicate and compute no matter where we are. Dynamic networks (N21s) help our machines locate each other as well as the people, services, and resources we want to reach.
Oxygen's user technologies include:
The Oxygen technologies work together and pay attention to several important themes:
" Distribution and mobility - for people, resources, and services.
" Semantic content - what we mean, not just what we say.
" Adaptation and change - essential features of an increasingly dynamic world.
" Information personalities - the privacy, security, and form of our individual interactions with Oxygen.
Oxygen is an integrated software system that will reside in the public domain. Its development is sponsored by DARPA and the Oxygen Alliance industrial partners, who share its goal of pervasive, human-centered computing. Realizing that goal will require a great deal of creativity and innovation, which will come from researchers, students, and others who use Oxygen technologies for their daily work during the course of the project. The lessons they derive from this experience will enable Oxygen to better serve human needs.
For all these years, computation has centered about machines, not people. Computers have been difficult to use. They have required us to interact with them on their terms, speaking their languages and manipulating their keyboards or mice. 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. We will not need to carry our own devices around with us. Instead, configurable generic devices, either handheld or embedded in the environment, will bring computation to us, whenever we need it and wherever we might be. As we interact with these "anonymous" devices, they will adopt our information personalities. We'll communicate naturally, using speech and gestures that describe our intent and leave it to the computer to carry out our will. The purpose of the Project Oxygen is to bring abundant computation and communication, as pervasive and free as air, naturally into people's lives. Oxygen enables pervasive, human-centered computing through a combination of specific user and system technologies. The device technologies include mobile devices, network and software technologies whereas user technologies include speech, vision, knowledge access and automation. Project Oxygen was begun as a partnership between the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS), the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (AI Lab), and six major corporations including the Acer Group, Delta Electronics, Hewlett-Packard, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Nokia and Philips, with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
PROJECT OXYGEN
Widespread use of Oxygen and its advanced technologies will yield a profound leap in human productivity - one even more revolutionary than the move from mainframes to desktops. By enabling people to use spoken and visual cues to automate routine tasks, access knowledge, and collaborate with others anywhere, anytime, Oxygen stands to significantly amplify human capabilities throughout the world. Oxygen enables pervasive, human-centered computing through a combination of specific user and system technologies. Oxygen?s user technologies directly 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. Automation, individualized knowledge access, and collaboration technologies help us perform a wide variety of tasks that we want to do in the ways we like to do them. Oxygen?s system technologies dramatically extend our range by delivering user technologies to us at home, at work, or on the go. Computational devices, called Enviro21s (E21s), embedded in our homes, offices, and cars sense and affect our immediate environment. Hand-held devices, called Handy21s (H21s), empower us to communicate and compute no matter where we are. Dynamic networks (N21s) help our machines locate each other as well as the people, services, and resources we want to reach.
Widespread use of Oxygen and its advanced technologies will yield a profound leap in human productivity - one even more revolutionary than the move from mainframes to desktops. By enabling people to use spoken and visual cues to automate routine tasks, access knowledge, and collaborate with others anywhere, anytime, Oxygen stands to significantly amplify human capabilities throughout the world. Oxygen enables pervasive, human-centered computing through a combination of specific user and system technologies. Oxygen?s user technologies directly 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. Automation, individualized knowledge access, and collaboration technologies help us perform a wide variety of tasks that we want to do in the ways we like to do them. Oxygen?s system technologies dramatically extend our range by delivering user technologies to us at home, at work, or on the go. Computational devices, called Enviro21s (E21s), embedded in our homes, offices, and cars sense and affect our immediate environment. Hand-held devices, called Handy21s (H21s), empower us to communicate and compute no matter where we are. Dynamic networks (N21s) help our machines locate each other as well as the people, services, and resources we want to reach.
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. We will not need to carry our own devices around with us. Instead, configurable generic devices, either handheld or embedded in the environment, will bring computation to us, whenever we need it and wherever we might be. As we interact with these "anonymous" devices, they will adopt our information personalities. They will respect our desires for privacy and security.New systems will boost our productivity. They will help us automate repetitive human tasks, control a wealth of physical devices in the environment, find the information we need (when we need it, without forcing our eyes to examine thousands of search-engine hits), and enable us to work together with other people through space and time. It must be accessible anywhere. It must adapt to change, both in user requirements and in operating conditions. It must never shut down or reboot components may come and go in response to demand, errors, and upgrades, but Oxygen as a whole must be available all the time.
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. We will not need to carry our own devices around with us. Instead, configurable generic devices, either handheld or embedded in the environment, will bring computation to us, whenever we need it and wherever we might be. As we interact with these "anonymous" devices, they will adopt our information personalities. They will respect our desires for privacy and security.New systems will boost our productivity. They will help us automate repetitive human tasks, control a wealth of physical devices in the environment, find the information we need (when we need it, without forcing our eyes to examine thousands of search-engine hits), and enable us to work together with other people through space and time. It must be accessible anywhere. It must adapt to change, both in user requirements and in operating conditions. It must never shut down or reboot ?components may come and go in response to demand, errors, and upgrades, but Oxygen as a whole must be available all the time..
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