Future Research Developments in Wireless and Telecommunications 

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Artst as Researcher

• Importance of artists helping to shape research agendas
• Asking ignored questions, pursuing devalued ideas
• Pursuing lines of inquiry not dominated by profit considerations
• Incorporate celebration and curiosity as motivations
• Open up new research questions, new interpretations

Brief Survey of Emerging Research Areas  in Telecommunications and Wireless

• Any development that enhances telecommunication in general eventually impact wireless
• For example, telerobotics, vr, gesture recognition, emotional computing, etc.

Access Everywhere - Low orbit satellites  No large antennas required, No wi-fi infrastructure Data/Voice/Image everywhere on the earth, 24/7	mmarsat system
Haptics - Sending more than image and sound Send kinestetics, tactile, internal body states - cyberSM send skin stimulation - Interactive Institure send heat	Stahl & Stenslie  - cyberSM Interactive Institute - Emotional Communication
Ubiquitous/ Pervasive Computing Activated Objects and Environments All things are in communication with humans and each other - NEC prototype of pen with projection and virtual keyboard capabilities - Cup with sensors and communication - Association Creation - Bump - 2 interlinked sidewalks - steps in one place activate the same place in other sidewalk	Nec - pervasive object design Bump - association.creation
Enabling Technologies for Activating Objects Smart Dust - sensor chips with self organizing radio networks - each chip bounces messages to its neighbors  RFID  - id chips powered by radio waves - all objects can store and communicate data	Samrt Dust   RFID UC Berkeley Motes
Location Based Research - Augmented Reality - superimposed data based on location - GPS location based ideas = tracking children, prisoners, objects	Columbia University - Data about activities inside buildings is places on a semitransparent heads up display based on the location of a persion and the direction of their view.
Alternative Power Sources -Flexible batteries - can become part of the skin of an object -Wireless power ransfer - power sent like radio signals  -Human generated power - power generated by natural act of walking - capicitance changes
Telerobotics - Telepresence - UAV Control of devices from a distance.  Proxy eyes and ears at a distance Unmanned aerial vehicles http://www.livingroom.org.au/uavblog/
Electromagentic Spectrum Exploring all ranges  of the Spectrum.  Each range has its own characteristics - line of sight, wall penetration, interference, etc
Electromagnetic fields - dangers and benefits on the body
Teleportation  Physics experiments with quantum teleportation	IBM quantum teleportation of particles Television series Startrek teleportation