Tricorder
Manas Mittal, Joseph Paradiso
Responsive Environments
MIT Media Lab
X-Reality Lunch Talk
22nd Feb, 2008
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance = Clair (“Clear”) + Voyant (“Seeing”)
The ability to gain information about an object, location or physical
event through means other than the known human senses.
[Wikipedia]
Point and See
 ‘Plug’ data : light,
microphone,
vibration, PIR
 Compass
 Radio
[Lifton et. al]
V2
 Zoomable User Interface
 Selection and Aggregation
 Tagging
Selection & Aggregation
 Selection :
 Location  Data Values
Min
Max
Legend
Selection & Aggregation
 Selection :
 Location  Data Values
Min
Max
Legend
Selection & Aggregation
 Selection :
 Data Values Location
Min
Max
Selector
 Eg: Selection changes as
slider is moved.
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Selection & Aggregation
 Selection :
 Data Values Location
Min
Max
Selector
 Eg: Selection changes as
slider is moved.
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N810
 I/O: Touchscreen, Keyboard, Camera, GPS, Memory Slot
 Networking : Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB 2.0 (Peer Mode)
 Linux (Maemo), Python, Java, SWT for UI design, Flash
 Processor: 400 MhZ
 Compass
 Radio – TI MSP 430
Why Handheld?
 Real Time Sensor Data
 Web is mostly non-real time.
 Hard to extract meaning out of sensor data.
 Why Handheld
 Tags are shared, and corrected.
 Meaningful tags ‘emerge’.