MOBILE DEVICES AND INTERACTIVE SPACES

Mobile computing technology enables anyone to digitally work or play anytime, anywhere, but often requires an elaborate set-up ritual to connect and configure the various required devices. The Elope system we’ve been developing over the past two years simplifies this configuration by providing a means to quickly invoke a distributed wireless application using RFID-tagged objects to seamlessly marry mobile devices and interactive spaces. The system uses an RFID standard that operates within a few inches, thereby localizing the interaction; data transfer is quick, and tags can contain enough data to encode the information necessary to initiate connections between devices and invoke a specific service. The primary motivation for marrying mobile devices with interactive spaces is that the devices typically possess significant storage and computation resources to manage our personal data, but are not optimally

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