April 30, 2009 Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 2 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Jonathon Holt Department of Computer Engineering Faculty Mentor: Dr. Craig W. Thompson Department of Computer Science and Engineering April 30, 2009

Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 2

 Programmable appliances  I-phone  TiVo and DVR  Pandora / Netflix / Amazon Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 3

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 Privacy  Security  Mass Malfunction  Other Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 5

 Modeling in Second Life is cheap  Almost anything can be created  Unlimited Resources and few constraints Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 6

 1 – Planning Stage ◦ Determine the design for the test home ◦ Create a list of objects that will populate the home Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 7

 2 – Modeling and Texturing ◦ Model House ◦ Model objects using standard and sculpted prims ◦ Apply textures to objects Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 8

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 3 – Micro system creation ◦ Create Independent objects ◦ Script basic user object functionality Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 10

 4 – Macro System Creation ◦ Network objects with each other ◦ Implement item addition ◦ Multiple user profiles and permissions Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 11

 5 – Testing and research ◦ Diagnose and fix issues (Security and Comfort) ◦ Test for avatar information storage ◦ Provide guideline for a physical build of a pervasive computing environment. Holt, 1st Annual FEP Honors Research Symposium 12

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