System design of Smart Table

Author

Steurer, P. ; Srivastava, M.B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

26-26 March 2003

Firstpage

473

Lastpage

480

Abstract

The paper describes the system design of Smart Table, a table that can track and identify multiple objects simultaneously when placed on top of its surface. The table has been designed to support a smart problem-solving environment for early childhood education in a project called "Smart Kindergarten". We introduce our technology and present the incorporation of location information and identification provided by Smart Table into context-aware computing applications. In addition, the paper discusses the prototype design, localization algorithm, and the results from final implementation.

Keywords

education; educational technology; embedded systems; radio applications; sensors; ubiquitous computing; Smart Kindergarten; Smart Table; context-aware computing applications; early childhood education; localization algorithm; location information; multiple object identification; multiple object tracking; prototype design; smart problem solving environment; system design; Actuators; Computer displays; Computer networks; Computer peripherals; Context; Embedded system; Intelligent sensors; Middleware; Pervasive computing; Physics computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2003. (PerCom 2003). Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fort Worth, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1893-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOM.2003.1192772

Filename

1192772