“Mobile interface using visible-light communication technology for pervasive computing environment” by Narumi, Hiyama, Tanikawa and Hirose

Recently, pervasive computing has been proposed to transform environments, such as public space, into intelligent spaces saturated with computing and communication capabilities. In this trend, we need a user interface that we can select and obtain information about a certain thing or a certain place intuitively with in a pervasive computing space. As such an interface, authors have proposed the interface using multiplexed visible light communication (VLC) technology [1]. In this paper, we propose the system which can obtain information intuitively from a pervasive computing environment by making a mobile user interface using multiplexed VLC. In addition, we can understand the intention of other people who use the interface because we can see other people’s selection as light from other people’s interface. Therefore, using this characteristic, we propose new interaction technique to be able to promote cooperation between users by using an action that they put light on top of one another in a pervasive computing space.

1. Takuji Narumi, Atsushi Hiyama, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Michitaka Hirose: inter-glow, SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies, Aug. 2007.