18-849 Special Topics in Engineering:Mobile Computer Systems
Spring 1996 Tethered Group

Design Process

• Conceptualization
  
  • Problem Definition
    
  • Technology Survey
• Planning
  
  • System Architecture Specification
    
  • Subsystem Specifcation
• Design
  
  • Detailed Design
• Implementation
  
  • Implementation
    
  • System Integration
    
  • Methodology Evaluation

Technology Survey

• Acquisition
  • Digital Memo Recorders
• Communication
  • Cordless Phones
  • IR transfer devices
  • Wireless FM Microphones
  • Local cellular phone rates
• Playback
  • Wireless Headphones
• Speech Recognition and Synthesis

Related information

• Yahoo:Computers and Internet:Mobile Computing
  
• Wireless Communication Products
  
• Industry Net (free membership required)
  
• Information Storage Devices(ChipCorder)
  
  • Application Support
    
• WinCim (voice email software for MS Windows--free demo download)
  
• Wearable Computers at CMU
  
• Wearable Computers at MIT
  
  • Battery Options
    
  • Apple's FCC proposal for making 300MHz in the 5Ghz spectrum unliscensed(link from MIT wearable page)
    
• Speech Systems
  
  • First Byte
    
  • Entropic True Talk
    
  • TruVoice by Centrigram
    
  • Verbex(Voice Reconition)
    
  • Commercial Speech Recognition Page
    
  • Speech Systems Inc. (SSI)
    
• Remote Control Devices
  • IBM PC Based IR Remote Control System
    
  • SmartHome
    
  • Xwindows Remote Control Interface and Hardware Design
    
  • Mac Interfaced IR Remote Control
    
  • Serial Interfaced IR Remote Control
    

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