Experiential Computing

Unexpected growth in number of digital photos has created a great opportunity for a product to manage, organize, and access photos. During my recent cruise, I again found a compelling evidence that now almost everybody uses only digital camera –…

Attending three doctoral research presentations in one day is overwhelming. Pil Ho Kim and Bin Liu had their thesis proposal presentation to their committee and Matt Wolenetz (Kishore Ramachandran’s student) had his doctoral defense today at Georgia Tech. Before these…

An event has both informational data as well as experiential data.  To capture events and make them available to people both types of data play important role.   Since we are all familiar with informational data related to events, first we…

There is a continuum between information and experience.  You experience when you are immersed in an environment and can use your sensors to feel or experience the environment.  On the other extreme is purely abstract information where you are given…

Originally computers were designed to perform computation on data.  Obviously, that was the reason to call them computers.  As their evolution continued, they became more information devices than computing machines.  Most of us use computers more for communicating information, accessing…