A Support Infrastructure for the Smart Kindergarten

  • Authors:
  • Alvin Chen;Richard R. Muntz;Spencer Yuen;Ivo Locher;Sung I. Park;Mani B. Srivastava

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Pervasive Computing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In a collaborative project underway at the University of California, Los Angeles, called Smart Kindergarten (SmartKG), the authors explore communication and computation technologies in a sensor-instrumented environment for early childhood education. Spatially dense but unobtrusive sensors continually capture interactions among students, teachers, and common classroom objects. The sensors deliver observations wirelessly to a wired infrastructure for analysis and storage. Two crucial building blocks of this environment are Sylph, a sensor middleware infrastructure, and iBadge, a lightweight sensor-instrumented badge worn by students and teachers.