During my Master of Science thesis, under the supervision of Dr. J. Antonio Garcia Macias, my research topic evolved from navigating augmented spaces with scenario-based applications to a complete general-purpose browsing system for the Internet of Things. This browser was called the ‘Sentient Visor’.

Information heterogeneity becomes a problem for a user trying to consume data from augmented objects. Having a dedicated application and asking a user to install a particular software for each type of object would be undesirable. To avoid this situation, we proposed a design space to develop sentient visors that allow browsing the information space in the Internet of Things, consisting of six design dimensions:

  • contextual reasoning
  • context awareness
  • mixed-reality UI
  • multimodal information
  • object ID/discovery
  • semantic communication.

sentient visor

I implemented a Sentient Visor system prototype capable of searching, identifying and communicating with smart objects nearby. The system allows a user to consume web services provided by smart objects without requiring previous knowledge of the services provided or technologies embedded in the object.

Publications:

  • Estrada-Martínez, P. E., Álvarez-Lozano, J., García-Macías, J. A. y Favela, J. 2011. “The Sentient Visor: Towards a Browser for the Internet of Things”. En 5th International Symposium of Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI). Riviera Maya, México. Diciembre 2011.
  • García-Macías, J. A., Álvarez-Lozano, J., Estrada-Martínez, P. y Avilés-López, E. 2011. “Browsing the Internet of Things with Sentient Visors”. IEEE Computer, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 46-52. Mayo 2011.