Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

INCA: A Software Infrastructure to Facilitate the Construction and Evolution of Ubiquitous Capture & Access Applications

  • Conference paper
Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2004)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 3001))

Included in the following conference series:

Abstract

People’s daily lives provide them with memories and records that they often want to review later. They must expend time and effort to record these experiences manually for future retrieval. To address this issue, applications that automatically capture details of a live experience and provide future access to that experience have become an increasingly common theme of research in ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we present our experience building a number of capture and access applications, sharing insights on the successes and difficulties we encountered. These lessons inform the design of the INCA toolkit (Infrastructure for Capture and Access), which supports the construction of applications in this class. We will demonstrate how INCA facilitates the rapid prototyping and simplified evolution of increasingly complex capture and access applications.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. Abowd, G.D.: Classroom 2000: An Experiment with the Instrumentation of a Living Educational Environment. IBM Systems Journal 38(4), 508–530 (1999)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Bacher, C., Muller, R., Ottmann, T., Will, M.: Authoring on the Fly, A New Way of Integrating Telepresentation and Courseware Production. In: The Proceedings of International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 1997) Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia (1997)

    Google Scholar 

  3. Berque, D.: Using a Variation of the WYSIWIS Shared Drawing Surface Paradigm to Support Electronic Classrooms. In: The Proceedings of HCI International 1999, Munich, Germany (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bianchi, M.: AutoAuditorium: A Fully Automatic, Multi-Camera System to Televise Auditorium Presentations. In: The Proceedings of DARPA/NIST Smart Spaces Technology Workshop (1998)

    Google Scholar 

  5. Brotherton, J.A.: Enriching Everyday Activities through the Automated Capture and Access of Live Experiences - eClass: Building, Observing and Understanding the Impact of Capture and Access in an Educational Domain. Ph.D. Thesis, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  6. Chiu, P., Kapuskar, A., Reitmeier, S., Wilcox, L.: NoteLook: Taking Notes in Meetings with Digital Video and Ink. In: The Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 1999, Orlando, FL, pp. 149–158 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Cruz, G., Hill, R.: Capturing and Playing Multimedia Events with STREAMS. In: The Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 1994, San Francisco, CA, pp. 193–200 (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  8. Davis, R.C., Landay, J.A., Chen, V., Huang, J., Lee, R.B., Li, F.C., Lin, J.: III, C.B.M., Schleimer, B., Price, M.N., Schilit, B.N.: NotePals: Lightweight Note Sharing by the Group, for the Group. In: The Proceedings of CHI 1999, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 338–345 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  9. Dey, A.K., Salber, D., Abowd, G.D.: A Conceptual Framework and a Toolkit for Supporting the Rapid Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Journal 16(2-4), 97–166 (2001)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Dey, A.K., Futakawa, M., Salber, D., Abowd, G.D.: The Conference Assistant: Combining Context-Awareness with Wearable Computing. In: The Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 1999). San Francisco, CA, pp. 21–28 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Gellersen, H.W., Schmidt, A., Beigl, M.: Multi-Sensor Context-Awareness in Mobile Devices and Smart Artefacts. Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) 7(5), 341–351 (2002)

    Article  MATH  Google Scholar 

  12. Greenberg, S., Fitchett, C.: Phidgets: Easy Development of Physical Interfaces through Physical Widgets. In: The Proceedings of UIST 2001, Orlando, FL, pp.209–218 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  13. He, L., Sanocki, E., Gupta, A., Grudin, J.: Auto-Summarization of Audio-Video Presentations. In: the Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 1999, Orlando, FL, pp. 489–498 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  14. Fleck, M., Frid, M., Kindberg, T., O’Brien-Strain, E., Rajani, R., Spasojevic, M.: Rememberer: A Tool for Capturing Museum Visits. In: Borriello, G., Holmquist, L.E. (eds.) UbiComp 2002. LNCS, vol. 2498, pp. 48–55. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  15. Klemmer, S.R., Li, J., Lin, J., Landay, J.A.: Papier-Mâché: Toolkit Support for Tangible Input. In: The Proceedings of CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria (2004)

    Google Scholar 

  16. Lamming, M., Flynn, M.: Forget-me-not Intimate Computing in Support of Human Memory. In: the Proceedings of FRIEND21: Symposium on Next Generation Human Interfaces, Tokyo, Japan (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  17. Liu, Q., Rui, Y., Gupta, A., Cadiz, J.J.: Automating Camera Management for Lecture Room Environments. In: Proceedings of CHI 2001, Seattle, WA (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  18. Macedo, A.A., Truong, K.N., Pimentel, M.G.C., Camacho, J.A.: Automatically Sharing Web Experiences through a Hyperdocument Recommender System. In: The Proceedings of ACM HyperText 2003, Nottingham, UK (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Mankoff, J.C., Hudson, S.E., Abowd, G.D.: Interaction Techniques for Ambiguity Resolution in Recognition-Based Interfaces. In: the Proceedings of UIST 2000, San Diego, CA, pp. 11–20 (2000)

    Google Scholar 

  20. Mukhopadhyay, S., Smith, B.: Passive Capture and Structuring of Lectures. In: The Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 1999. Orlando, FL, pp. 477–487 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  21. Omoigui, N., He, L., Gupta, A., Grudin, J., Sanocki, E.: Time-Compression: Systems Concerns, Usage, and Benefits. In: The Proceedings of CHI 1999, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 136–143 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  22. Pedersen, E., McCall, K., Moran, T.P., Halasz, F.: Tivoli: An Electronic Whiteboard for Informal Workgroup Meetings. In: The Proceedings of INTERCHI 1993, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 391–398 (1993)

    Google Scholar 

  23. Richter, H., Abowd, G.D., Geyer, W., Fuchs, L., Daijavad, S., Poltrock, S.: Integrating Meeting Capture within a Collaborative Team Environment. In: The Proceedings of UBICOMP 2001, Atlanta, GA, pp. 123–138 (2001)

    Google Scholar 

  24. Stern, M., Steinberg, J., Lee, H., Padhye, J., Kurose, J.: MANIC: Multimedia Asynchronous Networked Individualized CourseWare. In: The Proceedings of Educational multimedia and Hypermedia (1997)

    Google Scholar 

  25. Stifelman, L.J.: The Audio Notebook. Ph.D. Thesis, Media Laboratory, MIT (1997)

    Google Scholar 

  26. Streitz, N.A., Geibler, J., Haarke, J., Hol, J.: DOLPHIN: Integrated meeting Support across Local and Remote Desktop Enviroments and LiveBoards. In: The Proceedings of CSCW 1994, Chapel Hill, NC, pp. 345–357 (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  27. Sumi, Y., Sakamoto, R., Nakao, K., Mase, K.: ComicDiary: Representing Individual Experiences in a Comics Style. In: Borriello, G., Holmquist, L.E. (eds.) UbiComp 2002. LNCS, vol. 2498, pp. 16–32. Springer, Heidelberg (2002)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  28. Tandler, P.: Software Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments: Supporting Synchronous Collaboration with Heterogeneous Devices. In: Abowd, G.D., Brumitt, B., Shafer, S. (eds.) UbiComp 2001. LNCS, vol. 2201, pp. 96–115. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  29. Truong, K.N., Abowd, G.D., Brotherton, J.A.: Personalizing the Capture of Public Experiences. In: The Proceedings of UIST 1999, Asheville, NC, pp. 121–130 (1999)

    Google Scholar 

  30. Truong, K.N., Abowd, G.D., Brotherton, J.A.: Who, What, When, Where, How: Design Issues of Capture & Access Applications. In: Abowd, G.D., Brumitt, B., Shafer, S. (eds.) UbiComp 2001. LNCS, vol. 2201, pp. 209–224. Springer, Heidelberg (2001)

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  31. White, D.R., Camacho-Guerrero, J.A., Truong, K.N., Abowd, G.D., Morrier, M.J., Vekaria, P.C., Gromala, D.: Mobile Capture and Access for Assessing Language and Social Development in Children with Autism. In: The Extended Abstracts of UBICOMP 2003, Seattle, WA, pp. 137–140 (2003)

    Google Scholar 

  32. Whittaker, S., Hyland, P., Wiley, M.: FiloChat: Handwritten Notes Provide Access to Recorded Conversations. In: The Proceedings of CHI 1994, Boston, MA, pp. 271–276 (1994)

    Google Scholar 

  33. Wilcox, L., Schilit, B.N., Sawhney, N.: Dynomite: A Dynamically Organized Ink and Audio Notebook. In: the Proceedings of CHI 1997, Atlanta, GA, pp. 186–193 (1997)

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing & GVU Center, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0280, USA

    Khai N. Truong & Gregory D. Abowd

Authors
  1. Khai N. Truong
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Gregory D. Abowd
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Pervasive Computing, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040, Linz, Austria

    Alois Ferscha

  2. Inst. for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Friedemann Mattern

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this paper

Cite this paper

Truong, K.N., Abowd, G.D. (2004). INCA: A Software Infrastructure to Facilitate the Construction and Evolution of Ubiquitous Capture & Access Applications. In: Ferscha, A., Mattern, F. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24646-6_9

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24646-6_9

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-21835-7

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-540-24646-6

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation