Sensonomy: intelligence penetrating into the real space

ABSTRACT

Recent commoditization of mobile digital devices and net-working brought us to use them as a very large-scale sensing platform. We call this possibility "Sensonmoy", which is an integration of collective intelligence (also known as "folk-sonomy") and pervasive sensing. As many users own mobile devices with sensing facilities, a collection of sensing data from these devices becomes quite important, and integration of them can be used in a very different manner. Such feature could be a new way to create intelligent systems and inter-faces. In this talk, I am going to discuss a possibility of con-necting a large number of simple devices to produce intelligent interactions. As a realistic example of them, I will introduce a city-scale indoor and outdoor positioning system that we have developed, and how its database can be evolved by using the idea of Sensonomy. I would also like to discuss computer-augmented memory and lifelong computing based on our platform.

REFERENCES

• 1: Jun Rekimoto, "From Folksonomy to Sensonomy: Convergence of Real World Activities and Online Space", International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT2007) 2007.
• 2: Jun Rekimoto, Takashi Miyaki, and Takaaki Ishizawa, "LifeTag: WiFi-based Continuous Location Logging for Life Pattern Analysis", 3rd International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LOCA2007), pp.35--49, 2007.
• 3: Takashi Miyaki and Jun Rekimoto, "Sensonomy: Envisioning Folksonomic Urban Sensing", Ubicomp 2008 Workshop Programs, pp.187--190, 2008.
• 4: http://www.placeengine.com

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Theory and methods

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
lifelong computing, location aware computing, sensonomy