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2006年度上期
未踏ソフトウェア創造事業 採択案件評価書
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１．担当ＰＭ
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David J. Farber （カーネギーメロン大学 特別優秀教授）
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２．採択者氏名
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開発代表者
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榊原 寛 （慶應義塾大学 大学院 政策・メディア研究科 修士課程 ２年）
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共同開発者
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米澤 拓郎 （慶應義塾大学 大学院 政策・メディア研究科 修士課程 ２年）
小泉 健吾 （慶應義塾大学 大学院 政策・メディア研究科 修士課程 ２年）
宮島 信吾 （慶應義塾大学 大学院 政策・メディア研究科 修士課程 ２年）
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５．テーマ名
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uPackage: a package to
realize ubiquitous services with daily objects
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７．テーマ概要
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We are often troubled with
daily objects in our life, such as lost something, forgot something, cannot
be tidy or stolen. We assume that the huge number of daily objects
and these use in our life contain many underlying troubles which can be
solved. To realize a ubiquitous computing environment to richen our
life, it is required a new fundamental computing environment which can
solve the problems regarding the daily objects. We propose a fundamental ubiquitous environment to home
and offices to solve the problems regarding daily objects.
Our proposition has following three unique points. The first
unique point is that we considered the method to utilize daily objects in
ubiquitous services. Users can deal with the daily objects that are
not digitalized after the users illuminate tiny wireless sensor nodes on
the daily objects and take pictures of the daily objects. The second
unique point is that the initial
cost to use uPackage is low if the users have PCs and networks in their
home. In addition, the range of the services is expected to be wider
in the future since our framework has capacity to use information
appliances to provide services. The
third unique point is that various developers have chance to develop
applications in our framework. Especially, it is important
that the users without the expertise can develop their own
applications. This openness will lead the appearance and diffusion
of many ubiquitous services.
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８．採択理由
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This was a very very
interesting proposal that combined several areas of technology that I have
much experience with. The scope of the project entails some interesting
problems in user interface design as well as interesting issues in
networking technology. It is a very ambitious effort and offers
opportunities to me, and thus to the proposers, in system design of interfaces
and extensible software.
The things that make this a very interesting proposal is the notion of the
interaction of labeled real objects with the software that the proposers
will build. The ability to locate where various objects are in space and to
direct actions determined by the software to affect the objects is very
interesting. The possibilities of extending the ideas to service the public
in their homes via extended communications interests me. For example --
where are my keys? Who lifted the painting? Who looked at my diary?
Could in principle be a natural extension of these ideas. Proper software
architecture will be critical to the extendibility of the effort.
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９．開発目標
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The project aims to
deploy a new ubiquitous environment in homes and offices to solve the
problems regarding daily objects and to allow users to better exploit these
objects. The cost should be low when deployed in practice. It is expected
this will lead to the creation of a new market where many developers and
companies are able to join.
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１０．進捗概要
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The project developed
well and the participants each contributed to a expected progress.
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１１．成果
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I was very satisfied
with the overall progress of the project. The group fulfilled the promised
scope of the activity in a professional and timely manner throughout the
project and the results matched my expectations at the project initiation.
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１２．プロジェクト評価
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As mentioned above, the
project attained most of its goals.
The project
team was enthusiastic and very bright. I was proud to have managed their
effort and would be happy to see them reapply to attack open questions.
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１３．今後の課題
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Technically there are a
number of open issues that deal with the reliability of the sensors, the
battery life and most important the ability of the system to support
location sensitive applications. I would think that the addition of RFID
technology could be very useful in both solving the size issues and the
battery issues in many applications. A blend of the current radio
technology plus RFID may point the direction to a commercially useful
system. I found the use of the camera to identify objects to be highly
innovative but may cause problems for the users especially for those with
minimal technical skill. The integration of upackage into the future home
entertainment computer systems would perhaps allow a more flexible
interface for the users. As always there is a need to insure that the
privacy of individuals is designed into the system. At present that is
satisfactory but as the application is applied to the elderly, it needs
constant focus.
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