11-17-2007 Homework

Understanding mobile phone requirements for young adults with cognitive disabilities
Melissa Dawe
Pages: 179 - 186
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Widespread hope for families with cognitive disabilities- Mobile phone.

it increase

• safety
• independence
  
• social connectedness

special design is needed for special people.

Observing Sara: a case study of a blind person's interactions with technology
Kristen Shinohara, Josh Tenenberg
Pages: 171 - 178
Full text available: Pdf(286 KB)

Researchers, who are interested in the assistive technology, may observe the the user firstly.
Close look of how their true life. Something the users really want to have. The user show the way they use the technology and adjust the usage of the normal people will do.


Using participatory activities with seniors to critique, build, and evaluate mobile phones
Michael Massimi, Ronald M. Baecker, Michael Wu
Pages: 155 - 162
Full text available: Pdf(2.12 MB)

When the population of the senior increased, the design of the mobile device is also important. From my knowledge, the elderly people cannot use all the function of the cell phone that design for young people. The keypad, words in screen are too small for them.

class note

CSMA

Light
-interference
-noise immunity

idle <-->collission

contention base
schedule

CSMA/CD 802.3 circuit complexity
CSMA/CA 802.11

10-20-2007 Homework

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1. Read and then comment on the following papers.

• Yao-Jen Chang, Shih-Kai Tsai, Tsen-Yung Wang Wayfinding Systems Based on Passive RFID for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments
• RFID is the key guild in the application for trigger the wayfinding system. It also describe how the model acts by using RDFS. The detail scenario can be expressed.
  
  
• Yao-Jen Chang, Tseng-Yun Wang, Yu-Chia Chuang, Shih-Kai Tsai, “Ontology-based Personalized Wayfinding System Using Deviation Detecting for Individuals with Cognitive Impairments” to be presented in International Conference on Convergence Information Technology 2007, Gyeongju, Korea. November 21~23, 2007. (EI)
• Deviation detecting issue is addressed in this paper. The users are facing the possibilities of lost on the way to their destination. The algorithm can solve the problem based on breadth-first traversal.
  

(以上論文都收錄在講義裡)

2. Read Sec. 1-3-6 of Textbook.
What is the disadvantage of Mobile IP and what's the solution?
Routing inefficiencies->triangular routing
Security issues->using firewall

3. According to lecture notes on Page 2, what is social network? Why is the positioning a major factor in mobile social network service?
People tie together by network with special reasons and effect each other. By knowing the position, the social network can start and get more close to real person.

Homework 9/15/2007

1. Translate or rewrite the abstract of the following papers.

• Wayfinding Systems Based on Geo-coded QR Codes and Social Computing for Individuals with Cognitive Impairment, (accepted as a Journal paper.), to be presented in International Conference on Convergence Information Technology 2007, Gyeongju, Korea. November 21~23, 2007. (EI)
  
  A new and novel wayfinding system that helps the individuals with cognitive impairment. QR-Code base technology can easily used in indoor by using wi-fi as a data transmission media. User takes the QR-Code and will pop out a navigation picture to assist or remind in right way to turn or go straight. In addition, the tracking system will monitor the user in case of lost on the way to the destination. The blog as a training and teaching tool to help the individuals with cognitive impairment to get familiar with the technology.
  
  
• A General Architecture of Mobile Social Network Services, to be presented in International Conference on Convergence Information Technology 2007, Gyeongju, Korea. November 21~23, 2007. (EI)
  
  A novel MSNs is introduced in this paper. The location-ware service can be have several great personalize applications, such as blind dates, looking for friends. People won't be isolated by using new Internet technology, but as a social tools to get more closed and form a community. Profile matching can get professions together with same interest. The architecture with social service is constructed in existing Wi-Fi technology.
  

2. Read Sec. 1-1, 1-2 of Textbook and the presentation materials in class.
What is the key factor which contributes to the integration of various media such as data, voice, and video on a single platform?

Everything is through IP(Internet protocol, so that data, voice and video can exchange information quickly.

3. What are the major differences between wireless and wired communication?
From the slides, we can find multipath, fading , interference and hidden terminal are the key differences.

Homework 8

http://www.housingmaps.com/
Use googlemap as a main engine.
the tag shows the house picture and hyperlink to show the detail of housing information.

http://www.urmap.com.tw/asp/kijiji/
I like this one. Maybe it's the information in local.
You can search the ads with hyperlinks and pictures.
The paper ads are so wasted and create trashes.
Ex: I'm going to rent house so I try to search the information. I did get some result. and email him.


http://www.7house.com.tw/house_sn.php?lng=en
Traditional search engine
List of the housing information without "show on the map information"

Homework 7

1. In an era of Web 2.0, Software as a Service is becoming popular.
Google Docs is one of the famous examples. In the followling lab, let's give Google Docs a try.

• Go to Google Docs. Google Docs lets you write Word documents through an online web service.
• Write some words in a Word format.
• Publish the Word document.
• What's the URL of your document.
  ans: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df6psgj4_1db9pfd
  

Hint: This is a sample Word document.

2. RSS is a tool to syndicate web publishing. Many blogs and news websites make use of RSS.
In the following lab, we will see how RSS is used for syndication and subscription.

• Enter Google Reader
• Try to put the following in the search box.

ANS: I use Bloglines to instead!

news.yam.com
蕃薯藤新聞 - 即時
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:10 PM (98 subscribers)
給你最完整的新聞報導
http://news.yam.com/RSS/Rss_all.xml

中時電子報





1.中時電子報-最新焦點
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:13 PM (116 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/focusing.rss

2.中時電子報-即時新聞
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:13 PM (86 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/latestnews.rss

3.中時電子報-主編精選
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:15 PM (72 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/editor_pick.rss

4.中時電子報-新聞排行榜
Fri, Dec 8 2006 10:15 PM (43 subscribers)
中時電子報：全球最大的華文新聞網站，每日提供中國時報、工商時報及中時晚報新聞，並有提供廿四小時即時新聞。
http://rss.chinatimes.com/rss/clickboard.rss

New York Times
NYT > Home Page Fri, Dec 8 2006 6:35 AM (112 subscribers) New York Times > Breaking News, World News & Multimedia http://graphics8.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml

Taiwan
Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/index.rss

• Subscribe to the RSS feeds one by one.
  
• What is the RSS feed that Google Reader takes in? List the URL of these RSS feeds.

(Hint: Examine Yam's RSS feed. )

Homework 6

Response to my readers!

and here

Homework 5

Comment1
Comment2

Homework 4

1. when you lost your phone in somewhere, you can track the location by wifi and get it back.
2. use wifi to send instant information, so the cell phone can be a tour giude for the newbies.
3. Shopping mall giude: locate the shop of clothes, shoes and gifts.
4. application in indoor tracking : all you can imagine

Homework 3

Read the article about Google Adsense
and watch the video of the talk given by the Adsense developer.
Summarize the talk and the things your learn.

Search is easy, but how to find the best ad for advertiser requires more artificial intelligence.
Let computer know the human language is much diffcult part.

revenue
CPC(cost per click)
CPM(cost per Mille )(thousand impression)
CPR(click through rate) (click + impression)
eCPM=CPC*CTR

"If I'd ask my customers what they wanted, I would've had to go looking for faster horses"
-->sometimes customers don't know what they want!

Vickery Auction
The highest bidder wins, but paid for the second highest price.
---> close to true value for the bidder

How do u estimate CTR for not-yet-shown ads?
base CTR

contextual ads

challenge is the real time updates.

click fraud

natrual language processing

similarity of short text

tradtional retrieval similarity

Homework 2

1. 安裝 PageRank , 然後使用 PageRank 量測以下網站的 PageRank (0~10分)
美國 FirstGov=>10
歐盟 http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm=>8
英國 Direct Gov=>8
日本 首相與內閣入口網=>7
台灣 MyeGov=>7
新加坡 SingGov=>7
澳洲 Australia Government=>7
德國聯邦政府=>6
中國 中央政府門戶網站=>7
韓國 http://Korea.go.kr=>2 (amazing)

2. Moodgrapher plots the mood levels reported by LiveJournal users in their posts.

* Use Moodgrapher to compare the "happy" mood level versus "sad" during the period from 9/1/2006~9/30/2006.



I wonder why Sep. 4th reaches the peak of the graph.I GUESS this is the reason "Deaths:2006/9/4 - Steve Irwin - Australian naturalist and TV personality. (b. 1962)". Steve is one of my favorites on TV shows.

* Can we justify that people drink more during the weekends?


According to the calender, one of the peaks of the wave is Sunday(9/17), the next one is Saturday(9/16). For a reasonable guess, weekends are the days for people to relax ,and of course, to get drunk.

3. Read JONATHAN SCHWARTZ, Sun CTO's Blog. Do you think his blog is authentic, honest, and authoratative? Why?

authentic,authoratative,honest:

This blog is written by CEO of Sun Microsystems,the articles he wrote can convince every customer that is the truth. The translator of several major languages may be a great helper to those who are not firmiliar with the English.

Homework 1

1. Watch the 10 minute video clip Beyond the Mobile Frontier by NTT DoCoMo. List, from your point of view, 10 scenarios of what's next technology come into our life.

(1)PC hand
3D object sense of the touch can be transmited.

(2)wireless credit card
The old women is using the credit card without taking it out from her wallet. This new technology must consider and solve the security and privacy problems.

(3)pay by watch
Eletronic money is always the fashion in the future, from wired to wireless, we can see the the way of paying system is changing continuously.

(4)super thin screen material
Oled (organic light emitting diode) is so expected in next decades. As you can see in the clip, the display is tagged on the cloth that you barely can feel it existing. The advantage of low power consumption also represent the long operating lifetime.
Researchers developing transparent OLEDs

(5)solar energy backpack
In the jungle, the shortage of energy can gain from the heat of the sun.

(6)real-time digtal video transmit through a watch
I don't know if I can call it a "watch". Maybe it should be call in something else, wrist PDA or wrist smartphone? : )

(7)electronic gloves
The remote surgery is shown in the video by the electronic gloves. The 3D vision video is created for the vet to operate in the real-time treatment and diagnose.

(8)auto drive

(9)bus on demand system

(10)one stop boarding system
If you ever catch a flight, I believe the waste of time on check-in and passport check and security check will kill you. I hope the idea will be accomplished!

*(11)dreams come true painting board?????
"Everything you wrote here all came true".
Are you kidding me?This one will be marked on "MUST BUY!" in my shopping list.