Mobile Alerts
Contact:
Gurminder Singh, gsingh@nps.edu
The use of mobile devices
has become an integral part of our life today. Both on personal as well as
business fronts, mobile devices have become a key mechanism for us to stay
connected to the outside world. Military depends on this technology for a
number of mission critical applications including operations tasking and
commands and control. In the civilian world, mobile devices have become
indispensable for business as well as personal communication.
The outside world sends us pieces of information in many ways � emails, phone
calls, chat, SMS, and MMS etc. Some of these maybe urgent, others maybe important
but not urgent, and yet others maybe SPAM which most of us want to avoid. The
sender of information sends information in a way which is most convenient /
available to him, often completely unaware of the recipient�s situation. The
sender, in urgent cases, may expect the recipient to attend to the information
immediately.
While we all have multiple modalities to connect the world, the particular
modality which is most convenient / preferred at any moment depends on a number
of factors. One such factor in the business world is our schedule for the day.
When we are in meetings, our access maybe limited to our cell phone and that
also in a muted mode. Also, we may allow different levels of interruptions for
different types of meetings. In the case of military, our preferred
modality may depend on the type of mission we maybe on.
The goal of our research is to develop an infrastructure that enables us to
remain connected with the world in a convenient and efficient manner. This
needs to be achieved keeping user�s mobility in mind. Our key research areas
include device awareness, user-state awareness, information awareness, and
information-value awareness.
Thesis Topics:
- Content
Reduction � information-value awareness
- User
profiles and user context definition � context awareness
- Content
Repurposing � device awareness
- Content
delivery � network awareness
Research
Team:
Gurminder Singh (gsingh@nps.edu)
Michael Hsu (C4I)
Phong Le (C4I)