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Pervasive computing is a broad, new, research topic in Computer Science that focuses on the applications of technology to assist users in every day life situations. It seeks to provide proactive and self tuning environments and devices to seamlessly augment a person's knowledge and decision making ability, while requiring as little direct user interaction as possible. This project seeks to create and utilize a small test platform for a pervasive computing environment. In this environment we will create a secure and interactive system for non-time-dependent one-way communications. Under this system, users would receive a handheld device to communicate with a centralized system via wireless link. The system must have knowledge of the wireless device belonging to each user, but it must also make it impossible to trace the submission of data back to a particular device or user. Furthermore, the user must be able to pick up another device, or utilize a web browser at a different location, to communicate with the system and update their communications if they so choose. All of this much be done maintaining both the user's security and an interface that is intuitive and easy for students to use.

Possible technologies that may be used are handheld devices, 802.11 and Bluetooth wireless networking, infrared communications, high strength cryptography and client server systems with the possibility for new technologies should the design require it. While much of this project has direct application to the fields of computer science and electrical engineering, there is also much work to be done in the area of user interfaces to the system to ensure that the system is functional, system testing and evaluation, and physical security.

This IPRO is headed by Dr. Xian-He Sun, assisted by Tyler Butler and Nehal Mehta and is sponsored by Motorola for the Spring 2004 Semester.