Increasingly powerful mobile systems, such as mobile phones, in-vehicle and hand-held travel guidance systems, and other network enabled devices are becoming the dominant mechanisms for Internet access and personalized computing. Fast and ubiquitous networking technologies will enable anywhere-anytime computing and novel applications. Embedded wireless sensors in appliances, vehicles, objects and the environment are dramatically enriching the available information and expanding the interaction context. Context-aware services such as mobile shopping, advertising, gaming and social networking are on the increase.  To fully realize a vision of the connected mobile future, we need to better understand how people can work, play and collaborate in the mobile ecosystem and how to meet those needs through new designs, implementations and deployment mechanisms.

Introducing the CyLab Mobility Research Center
To capitalize on these opportunities and explore the disruptive technical, economic, and social ramifications of mobile technology, Carnegie Mellon CyLab will launch a new Mobility Research Center leveraging its campus in the heart of Silicon Valley.  The planned research program is intrinsically multi-disciplinary and experimental, combining novel work in technology, usability, behavior, business and policy. The Center builds upon our strengths in agile software engineering, human-computer interaction, software agents, sensor-enabled environments, networking, security, robotics, and open source software. .  We will focus on context-aware applications and services, serendipitous collaboration, social networking and games, and the use of rich semantic information to enable novel data and media management, access and visualization.  This holistic or unified view of mobile environments will produce new technologies and practices that external organizations can leverage for future offerings.

Learn about the full-time and part-time ECE PhD resident on the Silicon Valley west coast campus

Want to know more about Carnegie Mellon CyLab?  Visit http://www.cylab.cmu.edu.

More information about research projects and corporate partnerships is coming soon.