CyLab Mobility Research Center
Increasingly powerful mobile systems,
such as mobile phones, in-vehicle and hand-held travel guidance
systems, and other network enabled devices are becoming the dominant mechanisms for Internet access and personalized computing.
Fast and ubiquitous networking technologies will enable anywhere-anytime computing and novel applications. Embedded wireless sensors in appliances, vehicles, objects and the environment are dramatically enriching the available information and expanding the interaction context. Context-aware services such as mobile shopping, advertising, gaming and social networking are on the increase.
To fully realize a vision of the connected mobile future, we need to better understand how people can work, play and collaborate in the mobile ecosystem and how to meet those needs through new designs, implementations and deployment mechanisms.
Carnegie Mellon University’s broad and deep expertise in related research activities in software engineering, open source (COSI), robotics (CMIL) and context-aware systems (SmartSpaces) and in the academic departments and schools including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, and School of Computer Science ensure that the CyLab Mobility Research Center is uniquely positioned to partner with organizations around the world to advance the state of the art in Mobility Systems.
Mobility research summits
The first Mobility Research Summit was held in July 2008. The goal of the summit was to engage industry leaders in a frank discussion on the future of mobile computing, as well as a strong role for the MRC. The Summit exceeded expectations, with representation from Adobe, Bosch, Cisco, Google, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Nasa-Ames, SAP, Sun, and Yahoo, as well as others.
- Read the CyLab News Post on the Summit
- Learn more about Summit Outcomes
- Get the Summit slides and faculty presentations
A follow-up to the summit in July 2008, the Mobile Health Workshop was held in February 2009. Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and Helsinki University of Technology TKK invited participants todiscuss key issues and research opportunities in mobile medicine, exploring topics such as home health, chronic care, elder care, in-clinic/in-hospital mobile information, emergency services, rural health care and prevention and health maintenance.
Workshop organizers were Martin Griss and Patricia Collins of the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/CyLab Mobility Research Center, and Karita Illvonen and Johan Groop of the TKK Healthcare Engineering, Management and Architecture research group of TKK. Sponsors include SAP Research, Nokia Research Center, and Carnegie Mellon CyLab. Over 40 participants attended from many organizations, including 360Fresh, BeWell Mobile, Cisco, Diamond Associates, Ericsson, Health Hero, Health Technology Center, Intel, Kaiser Permanente, Kinnexxus, Microsoft, Nokia, Nortel, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Robert Bosch, SAP, and University of Southern California.
- Read the CyLab News Post on the Mobile Health Workshop
- Read the CyBlog Summary of Posts from the workshop
- Review the Call to Action (.pdf) by Martin Griss
- Review the presentations(.pdf)
- Review the student posters (.pdf)
If you are interested in participating in the next Mobility Research Summit, please contact Martin Griss.
from mobile phone to mobile companion
by Martin Griss
Even more exciting are the emerging proactive, intrinsically mobile applications that take full advantage of the fact that the devices are mobile and personal, and move with the user during most of their day. These context-aware mobile companions can know where you are, where you have been and where you are going; they can know where your friends are, and what kind of food you like; they can actively find a preferred place to eat and coordinate with colleagues; they can select and customize useful advertisements, and recommend appropriate purchases and activities; they can filter messages to ensure that the right messages are delivered at the right time and place." Read the complete article...