A presentation I put together to demonstrate seamless integration of mobile, cloud, desktop and NUI applications. This was shown internally at SunGard, as well as for Industry Analyst Groups, Houston Tech Fest, Philly.NET Code Camp.

1. An overview of SGS ATS work on new application experiences
Michael Heydt
Principal Technologist, SGS ATS
CONTINUOUS (SEAMLESS), IMMERSIVE, AND
CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS

2. AGENDA
• Overview
• Components
• Examples
• Technologies
• Demonstration
• Applicability
• Next Steps
• Q&A

3. HOW WE GOT HERE
• Seamless is a natural evolution / aggregation of all of the following previous work:
• Composite Applications
• Rich Interfaces
• Mobile
• Cloud
• Cloud / on-premise integration
• Natural User Interfaces
• ATS is already in discussion with a major energy company to
• Assist in building a workspace of the future
• With fully seamless / mobile / interactive trading environments
• Including room size interactive visuals, and
• Community workspaces that adapt to the current person in the environment

4. WHAT I’M NOT GOING TO COVER
• Simply a lot of stuff, so I’m going to only cursory cover:
• Kinect and NUI
• Cloud technologies
• Specifics on programming
• But I’ll be more than happy to do follow ups for anyone at a later time
• The focus today is on what this is, a few examples, and a demo

5. MEET YOUR NEW OR SOON TO BE USER
• http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/162/generation-flux-future-of-business
• Expects always on access
• Ability to work anywhere, any time, on anything
• Naturally works with multiple devices
• Device convergence is a thing of the past

6. CONTINUOUS / SEAMLESS
• The Continuous Client
• http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/a-modest-
proposal-the-continuous-client/
• When you leave one device, you pick up your session
exactly in the same place on the next device you use
• “Placeshifting” your computing experience from one device
to the next with no break in your work, timelines or
conversations.
• But this is much more than just the “client”

7. COMPONENTS OF A CONTINUOUS APPLICATION
Operating System Provides the capability to run code on a particular platform
Application Dynamically composited: “the streaming application”
Services Both in the cloud, as well as on other mobile and ephemeral
systems
Contextual App knows who, what, when, where and what’s around
Rendezvous Ability to dynamically locate other devices utilize their capabilities
Immersion The application experience is everywhere and all around the user
Multi-modal Not just vision and typing, but gestures, source, voice and haptic
Augmentation Applications utilize other devices to extend the experience

8. THE CONTINUOUS CLIENT
• Not necessarily a common code base
• More a set of similar services on different devices
• That can find each other and augment the users experience
• Ideally they can be generated and/or composited “on-the-fly” (mashups anyone?)
• “Streaming Client”: where an application is composited and downloaded on the fly to a user
based upon their current “context”
• In essence the client becomes immersive, moving with the user across location and devices,
constantly providing the user with the services that are needed exactly at that moment

9. CONTEXT AWARE
• Applications know who is using them, where they are, what they are running on, and what is
nearby to augment services (and what time it is)
• Example of context: Attentive phone and Smart Actions

10. IMMERSIVE
• Immersion is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self
is diminished or lost by being surrounded in an engrossing total environment, often artificial
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_(virtual_reality)
• Devices such as Kinect allow interaction away from the keyboard and mouse
• Devices such as phones can augment capabilities (as we will see)

11. AUGMENTED
• Augmented reality (AR) is a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment
whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video,
graphics or GPS data.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality
• In addition to augmented reality, applications will be able to determine what other devices
are nearby and use them to provide a combined and greater experience to the user

12. MULTI-MODAL
• Interaction with the application becomes more than mouse and keyboard
• These are antiquated and artificial means of interacting with the computer
• The new modes:
• GUI (graphical representation of information; does not imply mouse and keyboard)
• Natural (gestural interfaces, either on tablets or with a Kinect)
• Haptic (feedback given to the user in form or resistance and vibration)
• Speech (ability to understand complex grammars for interacting with the system)

13. THE BRAVE NEW WORLD
• These are no longer “new” or “advanced” technologies:
• Rich Interfaces
• Social communication

14. EXAMPLES
• Fictional, but not so much any more…
• Minority Report Shopping Mall
• Real
• Nsquared Seamless Architecture / Design Application

15. MINORITY REPORT REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED
ADVERTISING
• Scenario:
• You walk into a public place, and video walls present you with personalized
information

16. ENTERING THE PUBLIC PLACE

17. INITIAL IDENTIFICATION – MOTION TRACKING

18. DEVICE TRACKS MOTION

19. DOES A RETINAL SCAN TO IDENTIFY YOU

20. AND STARTS TO MAKE PERSONALIZED ADS

21. JOHN HAS SIMILAR TASTES TO MIKE

22. HOW REALISTIC IS THIS?
• Not very unrealistic actually
• Detailed motion can be tracked by Kinect
• You can be identified easily by:
• Facial recognition (my demo later)
• RFID / NFC
• QR Code (a new market for t-shirts and hats?)

23. NSQUARED SEAMLESS DEMO
• Demonstration of a seamless application using multiple forms
• Surface
• Slate
• Video wall
• Kinect
• Cellphone
• Similar things will be demonstrated later
• http://nsquaredsolutions.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oALIuVb0NJ4

24. PLACE A PHONE ON THE SURFACE

25. THEY START SHARING DATA – LIKE CONTACTS

26. SURFACE AUGMENTS THE PHONE

27. GESTURES ON PHONE EXTEND ALSO

28. SELECTING A DOCUMENT

29. AND THE SURFACE STARTS TO OPEN DATA

30. SLATE IS USED TO AUGMENT THE SURFACE

31. GIVING A DIFFERENT “LENS” ON THE DATA

32. SELECT A ROOM AND IT SHOWS ON THE SLATE

33. NOW MOVE TO A VIDEO WALL AND KINECT

34. GESTURE TO GO INTO THE HOUSE

35. AND YOU ANIMATE IN

37. LETS INTERACT WITH THE MODEL

38. USE SLATE TO SELECT A NEW KNOB WITH A
FLICK

39. AND THE MODEL CHANGES

40. PUT THE BILL OF MATERIALS ON THE SURFACE

41. AND IT FIGURES OUT WHAT IT IS

42. GIVES A MAP TO THE LINE ITEMS

43. LETS SEND IT TO THE CUSTOMER

44. GET THE CONTACTS FROM THE PHONE AND
SEND

45. NSQUARED – WHAT WAS DEMONSTRATED?
Continuous Client Multiple applications working together to complete a task
Rendezvous Finding other systems and collaborating
Gestures Flicking data from one device to another
Location Knowing what devices are nearby and where the user is
Immersion Movement through the data
Augmentation Multiple examples of devices augmenting each other

46. THE DEMO - SCENARIO
• An arbitrary person sits in front of a computer which recognizes the user and starts
communication with the users phone
• User can interact with the phone application and request augmentation on the desktop
system
• Desktop application can retrieve contacts from the phone to send mail

47. THE TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONTINUOUS
DEMO
Kinect Used for vision and voice capture
Computer Vision OpenCV/EmGuCV
Cloud Services Microsoft Azure, SQL Azure, WCF and REST API’s
Phone Windows Phone 7
.NET Common code for phone, desktop and cloud
Voice Recognition .NET Speech SDK
Location Services GPS on the phone. Spatial data services in the cloud.
Rendezvous Microsoft AppFabric Service Bus to locate and
communication between mobile systems
Near-range wireless UDP communications when on local WiFi (fallback to cloud
messaging)
Gestures Flick data from phone to desktop

48. KINECT
• Video, Depth and Audio capture
• $199!
• The demo uses a kinect, but for only
video and voice

49. KINECT POINT CLOUDS AND SKELETONS

50. THE DEMO – GENERAL OUTLINE
• Train the system on your face on your desktop
• Training data is stored in the cloud
• Phone app sends location updates to the cloud
• Cloud does spatial queries to find nearby services and lets them know you are near
• When you are near, local systems get the facial data from the cloud
• When it sees you, it starts communications with your phone, first by cloud messaging and
then direct WiFi if available
• Use phone to look at stocks, and “flick” them onto the other system

51. FACE TRAINING AND RECOGNITION

52. REMOTE APP – DOESN’T KNOW WHO I AM

53. THE PHONE APP

54. THE PHONE APP

55. REMOTE APP NOW KNOWS AND SEES ME

56. PHONE APP – STOCK AND FLIP

57. REMOTE APP GETS MESSAGE FROM PHONE

58. REMOTE APP DISPLAYS AUGMENTED DATA

59. NEXT STEPS
• Add ability to have mobile phone give real-time orientation, position and movement data
• Can be used to manipulate items
• Extensions to NUIDOTNET framework formalizing:
• Location updates
• Service location
• Device location via spatial queries
• Capabilities exchange
• Application compositing and delivery (streaming)
• Robust gesture processing (on phone, and with Kinect)
• Many more

60. Q&A
• Any questions?

61. THANKS!