ubiquitous computing and ms surface at unr
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Presentation on the work being done with the Microsoft Surface at the University of Nevada, Reno, Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. The original presenation had video, in this presentation the video has been replaced with links to the appropriate video on youtubeTRANSCRIPT
Ubiquitous Computing and the Microsoft Surface at UNR
Will Kurt, Applications Development Librarian
UNR’s Mathewson-IGT Knowledgecenter
Ubiquitous Computing
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Computers should ‘plug-in’ to us,not the other way around!
GE’s ecomagination AR
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MIT’s Sixth Sense
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iPHONE!
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Microsoft Surface: It’s a table!
• Okay for Coffee• Notes and text books• Putting feet up• Changing babies (?)
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Ask “How can I enhance the things I already do on a table?”
Surface at UNR
What we did out of the box
Successful new technologies need to be perceived as valuable not novel
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Creating in-house applications!
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The Box has more!
Anatomy App!
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