Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing in a
Corporate Conference Room
September 2004
Lisa D. Harper, The MITRE Corporation
Abigail S. Gertner, The MITRE Corporation
Paul M. Herceg, The MITRE Corporation
Thomas T. Hines, The MITRE Corporation
Edwin H. Kemon, The MITRE Corporation
David E. Mireles, The MITRE Corporation
Michael E. Shadid, The MITRE Corporation
James A. Van Guilder, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses pervasive and ubiquitous computing in a smart room environment. The
system we describe resides in an operational conference room at The MITRE Corporation in
McLean, Virginia. This environment is currently used by a small number of volunteer
participants in order for us to accommodate user input early and frequently in the development
cycle. In this environment, an embodied agent assists meeting participants with operating room
devices, including those used for video teleconferencing (VTC). Primary system components
include an interaction manager, avatar, speech recognizer, text-to-speech engine, room control
application, macro player, biogate (face recognition) system, and context model. We are also
introducing location-tracking and vision-based gesture recognition in the near future.
Additional Search Keywords
Smart Room, VTC, User Interfaces, Dialogue, Multimodal, Infrastructure, Intelligent Assistant, Context-aware
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