Mobility and Networking Research - Selected Demos

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Mileage Data Attribution
Don’t know what is draining your phone’s battery or your cellular data plan? Mileage will track down the hogs! (2011)

Zero-Effort Payment (ZEP)
ZEP rethinks mobile payments. We enable a scenario in which mobile users can pay with "zero-effort": without interacting with their smartphone or opening their wallets. (2012)

Non-trivial Persuit (NTP)
NTP is a social trivia game played among attendees of a meeting. It uses the SMASH framework. The game draws information about the attendees public sources like Bing.(2011)

Wireless Display
From the phone to the big screen, effortlessly and wirelessly. (2011)

Print From Phone
Won't it be cool to print directly from your phone, to any printer of your choice? We think so. Built using the Hawaii OCR Service .(2011)

Hawaii OCR and Gadgeteer
Here's a cool demo that combines Hawaii OCR Service with .NET Gadgeteer.(2011)

HeadShot
Without a front facing camera, taking good self-portraits is difficult. This nifty app detects your face, and provides voice cues until your face is correctly centered! (2011)

Hands-free Cookbook
Keep your dirty hands to yourself! This audio cookbook app reads out recipes, and responds to simple voice commands for navigation, so you never have to touch the phone while cooking.(2011)

Indoor Navigation
Feeling lost in an unfamiliar building? We have the answer: an indoor naviagtion system for Windows Phone. (2010)

SMASH
Share files, vote on hot topics and do much more with attendees at a meeting (large or small) using the SMASH framework.(2011)

Swordfight!
Pen may be mightier than the sword, but in this game, the phone is the sword .... (2011)

Firetrails
Don't touch the trail left by your opponent, or you will die! Hawaii services , head-mounted displays and other gizmos bring the old ``Light Cycles'' game to life on Windows Phone.(2011)

PingPong
A game of Ping Pong, built using the Hawaii Relay Service .(2010)

Image Translator
Take a picture, and have the text read back in the language of your choice! Illustrates the idea of composing multiple Hawaii Services .(2010)