CoolCampus Summer Project 2003-2004 (Information Technology)

The CoolCampus Summer 2003-2004 Project presentations were held on 19 March 2004.

Seminar Abstracts

Adding Voice-Control to a Seminar Room: Mr. Stuart Vale

Supervisors: Dr. Seng Wai Loke and Dr. Chris Ling

The purpose of this project is to investigate the viability of controlling a seminar room using simple voice commands. The system will add voice control to the devices in the seminar room and Microsoft Powerpoint slide show. The seminar room to be voice enabled contains a web interface that controls the devices such as lights, projector, video recorder and audio settings.

Our system will use the existing interface to control the devices, through the use of OLE Automation and by simulating user selection on the web interface. powerpoint slide show will be voice enabled through the use of OLE Automation.

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Location-awareness for Moving Robot Devices: Mr. Paul Hii

Supervisor: A/Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky

Commercial robots have been released recently. These are controlled from laptops that are mounted on a robot, ER1. See http://www.evolution.com. This project aims at combining Ekahau Positioning Engine with such robots and demonstrating potential of such a system in CoolCampus applications.

[pdf, 241KB]
Tablet PC User Interface Tracker: Mr. Bernard Oh

Table PC User Interfaces have the added ability to record user input in Rich Ink. This project aims to build a Reflection Library to enable designers of Tablet PC User Interfaces to obtain feedback on how the device is used with particular applications, and to improve the design of user interfaces using Rich Ink.

Supervisors: Prof. Christine Mingins and Dr. Martin Dick

[pdf, 105KB]