Reading Assignments: ECE 5564 Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing

Reading Assignments
ECE 5564 Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing
Spring 2005

Reminder: Summaries of the upcoming week's reading assignments must be mailed to me at tlmartin@vt.edu by 5 p.m. on Monday. Please send your summary as plain ASCII text--no attachments or HTML please.

Please check this page often, as the list will change based upon how the situation develops.

The papers in the table below that are available through IEEExplore or the ACM Digital Library are available from on-campus; if you want to access them from off-campus, you should use the proxy server as described on the VT Library site. I also have local copies of many of the papers ; the general format of the file names is author-last-name_year-published. Access to the local copies requires your machine to be in the VT domain

Supplementary readings are optional and you do not need to write summaries of them. You may want to skim them, however, as they provide either additional information or different viewpoints.

(Last updated 20 April 2005)

Week of Reading Comments

Jan 17 Weiser91, Weiser93
Overview. Please read these two papers by Weiser before class on January 20; you do not need to write summaries of them.

Supplementary reading: Davies_02

Jan 24 Satya_01, Starner_01a, Starner_01b Overview. Summaries due via e-mail by 5 p.m., Monday January 24.

Jan 31
iswc01_tutorial, Mudge_01, Kim2003, Chandrakasan_92
Low power -- For the Chandrakasan paper, sections I, II, and IV are the most important for us. Skim the other sections, but don't focus on them.

Supplementary reading: Energy Efficient Technologies for the Dismounted Soldier, chapter 4, pp. 46-50.You might find it enlightening to skim the unassigned sections of this book too, as well as a follow on study, Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors.

You don't need to write a summary for the iswc01_tutorial. It's a somewhat out-of-date overview of the low power area.

Feb 7
Weiser_94, Grunwald_00, Martin_01,
Low power: Dynamic voltage scaling for CPUs
There's a PDF version of the Weiser paper in the local copies directory.

Feb 14
Tiwari_94, Simunic_99, Simunic_2000 Low power: Compilation Supplemental reading: Flinn_99

Feb 21
Lorch_98, Lu_99, Anand_2004 Low power: Power management

Feb 28
Martin_99, Kymissis_98,
Paradiso_2005, Green_2001
Power sources. Supplementary paper: Dyer_2004.

The Paradiso paper is not yet available from the IEEE, so the version I have is a draft version from the author that is only available on the VT internal page. Please do not re-distribute it.

Mar 7
Spring break...

Mar 14
Hardware examples: Narayanaswami_02, Hamburgen_01

Supplementary reading: Kamijoh01,

Mar 21
Design for Wearability: Gemperle98
Watches and wearable computers: Martin2002
No summaries due this week.

Exam on March 24

Mar 28
User I/O devices
Gemperle_01 ,
Fishkin02 , Harrison98 , Lyons01

Apr 4
Location/context awareness: Schilit94, Brown, Farringdon_99

Apr 11
Location/context awareness:
Golding 99 , Van Laerhoven 00,

Instead of summaries for Golding and Van Laerhoven papers, submit a review form for each of them.

Apr 18
Location/context awareness:
Hightower01, Schilit2003
Application case studies:
Stein99

Apr 25
Apr 26: Application case study: Pentland2005
Course summary
Apr 28: Project presentations

I will provide an LCD projector for the project presentations.

May 2
Project demonstrations

Week of	Reading	Comments
Jan 17	Weiser91, Weiser93	Overview. Please read these two papers by Weiser before class on January 20; you do not need to write summaries of them. Supplementary reading: Davies_02
Jan 24	Satya_01, Starner_01a, Starner_01b	Overview. Summaries due via e-mail by 5 p.m., Monday January 24.
Jan 31	iswc01_tutorial, Mudge_01, Kim2003, Chandrakasan_92	Low power -- For the Chandrakasan paper, sections I, II, and IV are the most important for us. Skim the other sections, but don't focus on them. Supplementary reading: Energy Efficient Technologies for the Dismounted Soldier, chapter 4, pp. 46-50.You might find it enlightening to skim the unassigned sections of this book too, as well as a follow on study, Meeting the Energy Needs of Future Warriors. You don't need to write a summary for the iswc01_tutorial. It's a somewhat out-of-date overview of the low power area.
Feb 7	Weiser_94, Grunwald_00, Martin_01,	Low power: Dynamic voltage scaling for CPUs There's a PDF version of the Weiser paper in the local copies directory.
Feb 14	Tiwari_94, Simunic_99, Simunic_2000	Low power: Compilation Supplemental reading: Flinn_99
Feb 21	Lorch_98, Lu_99, Anand_2004	Low power: Power management
Feb 28	Martin_99, Kymissis_98, Paradiso_2005, Green_2001	Power sources. Supplementary paper: Dyer_2004. The Paradiso paper is not yet available from the IEEE, so the version I have is a draft version from the author that is only available on the VT internal page. Please do not re-distribute it.
Mar 7	Spring break...
Mar 14	Hardware examples: Narayanaswami_02, Hamburgen_01	Supplementary reading: Kamijoh01,
Mar 21	Design for Wearability: Gemperle98 Watches and wearable computers: Martin2002	No summaries due this week. Exam on March 24
Mar 28	User I/O devices Gemperle_01 , Fishkin02 , Harrison98 , Lyons01
Apr 4	Location/context awareness: Schilit94, Brown, Farringdon_99
Apr 11	Location/context awareness: Golding 99 , Van Laerhoven 00,	Instead of summaries for Golding and Van Laerhoven papers, submit a review form for each of them.
Apr 18	Location/context awareness: Hightower01, Schilit2003 Application case studies: Stein99
Apr 25	Apr 26: Application case study: Pentland2005 Course summary Apr 28: Project presentations	I will provide an LCD projector for the project presentations.
May 2	Project demonstrations