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David Gatenby and Pattie Maes
The goal of this project is to allow a user with a bluetooth enabled cellphone or pda to gather personally relevant information about and interact with inanimate objects such as books, tabletops, works of art, etc in the user's vicinity.The system allows the user to passively gather information about their environment and get just-in-time reminders or suggestions from useful objects in the environment. For example, walking into a room full of augmented books, the books of interest to the user would "blink" their LEDs, thereby making it easier for the user to find books of potential interest.
This project is currently retired.
Project Resources
- Object awareness prototype image. [ view ]
Publications
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Galatea: Personalized Interaction with Augmented Objects
David Gatenby (2005).
Submitted to the Program of Media Arts and Sciences School of Architecture and Planning, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science in Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. September 2005.