please note: this index is work in progress - a sketch of a taxonomy of new media that I am still developing.

 

personalisation

Agentware
Automatic language translation
Avatars
Biometric sensors
Bluetooth personal area networks
Body-area networks
Chatbot companionware
Data protection
Digital signatures
Electronic programme guides
Expert-system mentors
Expression-capture
Eyeball recognition
Facial recognition
Fingerprint recognition
Gaze tracking
Genealogy sites
Gestural interface
GPS
Home-area networks
Inference engines
Integrated messaging
Knowledge Navigator
Location-specific cellular
Personal digital assistants
Personal home pages/family networks
Personal media access devices
Personal media filters
Personal media players
Personal video recorders
Personalisation
PGP personal encryption
Privacy
Search agents
Search engines
SMS messaging
Thought controlware
Ultra Wideband personal area networks
Voice recognition
Wearable computers

dynamic media

Artificial Life>John Conway>Life
Artificial Reality>Myron Kreuger
Automatic Language Translation
Bots
Chatbots
Cyberspace mapping
Emergency response systems
expert systems
Flight simulation
geographical information systems
God games>Sid Meier>Civilisation
Management information systems
Personality synthespians
Personality synthespians>Ananova
Realtime 3d games
Realtime 3d games>John Carmack>Doom
Realtime computer animation
Relational database systems
Simulation>Jay Forrester>System Dynamics
Simulation>Little Computer People
Simulation>Will Wright>Sims
Smart search systems
Smart search systems>Michael Lynch>Autonomy
Social videoconferencing
Virtual reality
Virtual Reality> VRML

community

3d multi-user worlds
Affinity networks
Business ecosystem
CCTV networks
mobile videophones
MUDs
MUDs>Richard Bartle>Essex MUD
online auctions
Peer-to-peer networks
small worlds> six degrees of separation
Socialware>Location-specific socialware
Special interest groups
UseNet
Videoconferencing
Videoconferencing>Social Videoconferencing
virtual worlds
virtual worlds>Jim Bumgardner>The Palace
Web networks>Geocities
Webcam networks

Enhanced media

ATVEF
CDROM
content aggregation systems
content online syndication
Desktop video
Digital camcorders
Digital-audio broadcasting
DTV
DVB
DVB/RCT
DVD
e-books
Electronic programme guides
Enhanced CD
episodic online publishing
Expanded books
Expanded cinema
Docomo I-mode content
Interactive advertising
Interactive television systems
Internet radio
Internet video
Liberate
Media management systems
Media search engines
Media-access devices
MHEG
Minidisk audio recording
MP3
MP3 networks
MPEG standards
Nuon technology
Online marketing
Online publishing business models
PDF
Personal video recorders
Quicktime
RealMedia
Server-push narrowcasting
SGML
Video on demand
Virtual vee-jay
Webcasting
WebTV
Windows Media Player
XML

Communications

3G networking
Cable broadband
Cellular networks
Cybernetics
Digital radio
Distributed software development
Docomo I-mode networks
DSL broadband
e-mail
FDDI
Glodom
GPRS
Groupware
Html - hypertext mark-up language
i-mode
ISDN
Mobile devices
Mobile devices>Blackberry
Mobile devices>Cybiko
Mobile devices>Treo
multimedia e-mail
Open-source software development
RF Radio Frequency
Satellite communications
Satellite LEO phone networks
SMS messaging
Video-conferencing
video-mail
VO/IP

 

personalisation
Agentware b

overview of agentware products
http://w3.informatik.gu.se/~dixi/agent/product.htm
review of Autonomy agentware
http://www.educate.co.uk/autonomy.htm

intro to software agents
http://agents.umbc.edu/introduction/
MIT Media Lab Agents projects
http://mevard.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/projects/

software agents overview
http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/agents/publish/papers/review1.htm
Intelligent Web Search Agents
http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~tplunket/article.html

Agent-based Models of emotion and personality
http://www.depaul.edu/~elliott/katia/web/node7.html
information agent paper
http://dis.cs.umass.edu/research/big/big.html


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Automatic language translation
SYSTRAN translation system
www.babelfish.altavista.com/
www.dictionary.com/translate/
www.languagepartners.com/products/mt.htm
automatic language translation definition
whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211624,00.html
Logomedia automatic language translation
www.logomedia.net/PressReleases/translatepr6.25.0111.htm
google translation
www.google.com/help/faq_translation.html
tranet automatic language translation
www.research.att.com/~hiyan/translation/
alphaworks machine translation
www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/mt
Netscape 6 automatic language translation
www.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease802.html
Lernout and Hauspie Speech and Language company
www.lhsl.com/default2.htm
Ray Kurzweil
www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html

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Avatars
Introduction to avatars
home.hawaii.rr.com/wilcoxalife/Avatars.htm
ACM avatar creation using automatic face recognition
www.acm.org/sigmm/MM98/electronic_proceedings/lyons/
www.mis.atr.co.jp/~mlyons/pub_pdf/acm-mm98.pdf
improve system for scripting interactive actors
mrl.nyu.edu/publications/sig96-improv/sig96-improv.pdf
fashion shopping with individual avatars
www.gurzki.de/publications/mcpc2001/mcpc2001.pdf

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Biometric sensors
University of Southampton Institute of Transducer Technology
www.usitt.ecs.soton.ac.uk/smartcard.shtml
Scientific American article
www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299techbus5.html
biometric sensor feature
www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/15115.html
fingerprints and palmprint sensors
www.biometricpartners.com/About_BPI/about_bpi.html
electronic engineering times article
www.eetimes.com/news/98/993news/biometric.html
self-securing devices overview
www.pdl.cmu.edu/Secure/ext_overview.html
techweb feature
www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980211S0007
polymer thick-film sensors abstract
www.bib.ecs.soton.ac.uk/records/6973

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Bluetooth personal area networks
O'Reilly Network Bluetooth primer
www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2000/11/03/bluetooth.html
Motorola PANs
www.motorola.com/bluetooth/pan/
forming scatternets with Bluetooth PANs
nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/blueware/tr826.pdf
interconnecting Bluetooth PANs
nms.lcs.mit.edu/projects/blueware/oxygen01.pdf
ARC Group Bluetooth PANs
www.arcgroup.com/bluetooth/
market report on Bluetooth PANs
www.biz-lib.com/ZARBPN.html

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Body-area networks
Body Area Networks: Towards a Wearable Future
www.wireless-world-research.org/BoV1.0/Contributions%2001/ 01_1_07_Philips_van-Dam.pdf
omnipresent computers
www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/publ/slides/OmniPrivacy.pdf
Microsoft research wireless networks
research.microsoft.com/sn/Wherever_you_go.asp
Bluetooth body-area networks
www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~beutel/pub/talks/20010808_wearable_info.pdf
news articles on BANs
www.cs.virginia.edu/misc/news-wulf-iuva.html
personal computing and communication
www-tkn.ee.tu-berlin.de/curricula/ws0001/colloquiumstexte/ Maguire-20010208.pdf
fture research directions wireless networks
telecom.esa.int/artes/artes1/fileincludes/documentation/ infoday/EC_RTD_future.PDF
ETH wearable computing lab
www.wearable.ethz.ch/
smart environments seminar
ivs.tu-berlin.de/de/seminarDetails.html

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Chatbot companionware
Botspot chatbots page
www.botspot.com/bot/description.html
chatbots
www.emse.fr/~yukna/prototypefactory/chatbots.htm
eliza chatbot
www.cise.ufl.edu/~smadhava/Eliza.htm
Alice chatbot
www.ramalila.net/Adventures/AI/chatbots.html
celebrity chatbots article
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4128156,00.html
Kurweil on chatbots
www.kurzweilai.net/mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=4830
BBC feature on chatbots
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/set99/newsid_290000/ 290417.stm
Botspot chatterbot page
www.botspot.com/search/s-chat.htm

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Data protection
European Union /UK data protection page
www.dataprotection.gov.uk/dprhome.htm
UK data protection act
www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm
data protection public register
www.dpr.gov.uk/
European Union directive
www.privacy.org/pi/intl_orgs/ec/eudp.html
UK data protection forum
www.dpforum.org.uk/
ACLU on privacy
www.aclu.org/privacy/
data protection links
www.qlinks.net/quicklinks/dataprot.htm
British Computer Society data protection SIG
www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg14.htm
data protection article
www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/02/01/21/020121tclock.xml

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Digital signatures

Webopedia definition
www.qmw.ac.uk/~tl6345/
What is a digital signature?
www.youdzone.com/signature.html
links on law cryptography, digital signatures etc
www.qmw.ac.uk/~tl6345/

Digital signature initiative overview
www.w3.org/DSig/
introduction to XML digital signatures
www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/xmldsig.html
counterpane: Cryptogram article
www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0011.html

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Electronic programme guides
BBC R&D
www.bbc.co.uk/rd/about/index2.html
EPGs
www.managingchange.com/mediums/inter-tv/epg.htm
MPEG-7 EPGs
xml.coverpages.org/mpeg7.html
Philips Research news
www.research.philips.com/password/pw8/news.html

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Expert-system mentors
Sherman Alpert research paper
www.research.ibm.com/people/a/alpert/
pilot associate system
faculty.erau.edu/towhid/AI/pilot_asso.html

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Expression-capture
Real-time expression capture
cg.kaist.ac.kr/Publications/CS-TR-2001-167.pdf
facetrax system
www.acq.osd.mil/bmdo/bmdolink/pdf/64.pdf
www.performanceanimation.com/hv/enter.htm
facial expression synthesis
www.ccrc.nthu.edu.tw/Excellence/TH0record/No5_10112000_1/ tsld009.htm
motion capture links
www.thegline.com/naga/links/

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Eyeball recognition
Silicon recognition Inc
www.silirec.com/cgi-bin/zisc.pl?ID=89
Guardian Unlimited feature
www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/Story/0,2763,547414,00.html
Geek.com feature
www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001aug/gee20010809007215.htm
Panasonic iris recognition camera
www.commweb.com/article/COM20010926S0004

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Facial recognition
Kruglick's facial recognition links
www.kruglaw.com/f_facial.htm
How it works
www.howstuffworks.com/facial-recognition3.htm
Visionics Inc
www.visionics.com/
how facial recognition works
www.howstuffworks.com/facial-recognition.htm
CNN facial-recognition article
www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/07/17/face.time.idg/?related
Viisage facial recognition system
www.viisage.com/facialrecog.htm
3ed facial recognition
www.bio4.co.uk/about_biometrics/face_recognition/
Polaroid Biometrics
www.polaroid-id.com/pdf/facrecog.pdf
web guide facial recognition
www.business2.com/webguide/0,1660,38801,FF.html


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Fingerprint recognition
Information on fingerprint recognition
www.biomet.org/fingerprint.html
DigitalPersona
www.digitalpersona.com/
web guide fingerprint recognition
www.ecompany.com/webguide/0,1660,38792%7C173%7C0%7C0%7C1%7Ca,00.html
Eye-D keyboard
www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/0605/web-biorev1-06-05-00.asp
Sony fingerprint scanner
news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-1900719.html
Acer laptop with built-in fingerprint recognition
www.itworld.com/Comp/1290/IDG010927acer/
products listing
www.biomet.org/fingerprintproducts.html
Fujitsu PC-card fingerprint recognition
www.biomet.org/fingerprintproducts.html
fingerprint recognition and biometricsd systems
www.tssi.co.uk/Default.asp
ieee paper
www.iee.org.uk/Events/Lectrs/Faraday/Pre-fingerprint.

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Gaze tracking

Bibliography
iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/people796.html
Current systems
www.diku.dk/~panic/eyegaze/node8.html
Robotics institute neural network gaze-tracking
www.ri.cmu.edu/projects/project_366.html
computer vision and robotics lab demo
www.cs.unr.edu/~zhu_z/Demo/demo1.htm
eye-gaze tracker
www.cyberscan.com/iMouse.htm
IBM gaze-tracking
www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43186,00.html
eye-link
www.eyelinkinfo.com/body_applications.htm

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Genealogy sites
List links
www.cyndislist.com/
ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Strawn/sites.htm
geneaology web-ring
members.tripod.com/~KHuish/comgen.htm
rootsweb.com
www.rootsweb.com/
resources
www-personal.umich.edu/~cgaunt/gen_web.html
directory
www.genealogy.com/links/

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Gestural interface
PCW article
www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/gesture.htm
digital baton speculation
www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/tm.htm
www.media.mit.edu/~marrin/batonproject.htm
keychain computer gestural interface
acg.media.mit.edu/people/golan/papers/shakepad/Keychain.html
Alias Wavefront PortfolioWall
www.aliaswavefront.com/en/WhoWeAre/press_releases/maya/portfoliowall/
www.presentationmaster.com/2001/11_nov/news/aw_portfoliowall.htm
virtual pilot
www.hitl.washington.edu/research/vip/
body-language user interface
www.blui.org/pages/spiePaper.html

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GPS
Overviews
www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/gps/gps.html
www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/education/curricula/giscc/units/u017/ u017_f.html
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/MAEL/ag/gps.htm
www.csr.utexas.edu/texas_pwv/midterm/gabor/gps.html
www.earthmapping.com/gpsoverview.htm
www.boatsafe.com/nauticalknowhow/gps.htm
home.hiwaay.net/~camping/gps/gps_overview.html

GPS products
www.motorola.com/gps/products
www.gpsnow.com

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Home-area networks
Overview
www.glencoe.com/norton/n-instructor-/updates/1999/32399-2.html
Cisco FAQs
www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/consumer/faqs.html
links
opensource.nus.edu.sg/projects/bluetooth/links.html
articles:
www.tedmag.com/JS_archives/js-22.htm
www.hometoys.com/htinews/dec99/articles/wah/wah.htm
digital camera and HAN
www.univ-valenciennes.fr/limav/SID/digalb/dpp2001/dpp2001_bennani.pdf

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Inference engines
and semantic web
www.semanticweb.org/inference.html
and expert systems, cybernetics etc
www.technatomy.com/solutionservices/expertsystems/expertsystems.htm
and rule-based systems
www.geocities.com/Eureka/5855/rules.htm
and personalisation
www-3.ibm.com/software/webservers/solutions/personalization/ about.html
lecture on
www.oznet.ksu.edu/agron893/oldnotes/LEC31.PDF

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Integrated messaging
G5 standard for
www.intranetjournal.com/foundation/g5-1.shtml
Blackberry and
www.itrezzo.com/integrated_messaging_overview.htm
products and services
www.graphnet.com/prod_messaging.html
ZDNET research centre
researchcentre.zdnet.co.uk/data/rlist?t=sys_40_12_16_2
T£EC research library
researchlibrary.technologyevaluation.com/data/rlist?t=sys_40_12_16_2
paper on
www.pelorus-group.com/Reports%20-%20covers/Unified.htm
integrated massaging inc
www.imi.mb.ca/message.html
computerworld/IT reports
itreports.computerworld.com/data/rlist?t=sys_40_12_16_2
cyberlibrary
cyberlibrary.wsta.org/data/rlist?t=sys_40_12_16_2

 

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Knowledge Navigator
Doris Mitsch on
www.dcltd.com/workf1.html
videoclips of
www.billzarchy.com/clips/clips_apple_nav.htm
ox.curtin.edu.au/streaming/knowledgenav.html
agents.www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie/CHI97/sld004.htm
mambo.ucsc.edu/psl/dwm/psych138/intro/tsld022.htm
article on
www.macobserver.com/article/2001/05/04.10.shtml

 

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Location-specific cellular
In future
www.geoplace.com/bg/2001/0101/0101mrk.asp

articles on
expectations are high for cellular people-finders, which would ...
www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,14598,FF.html
www.hp.com/communications/pdf/ss_location.pdf
www.geoplace.com/bg/2001/0201/0201pay.asp

location-based services
www-nrc.nokia.com/ip-location/Location-Services-hill.ppt
and privacy
www.pwcglobal.com/extweb/manissue.nsf/DocID/A0288B37CF54FE1985256A64004A3D04
range of technologies
florin.stanford.edu/~t361/Fall2000/Bsabloff/LocationWebsite/ OtherTechnol.htm

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Personal digital assistants
Personal home pages/family networks
Personal media access devices
Personal media filters
Personal media players


Personal video recorders
Grundsig personal digital recorder
www.grundig.com/produkte/sat/selexx.html


Personalisation
PGP personal encryption
Privacy
Search agents


Search engines

Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.com/
Google
http://www.google.com/
SavvySearch
http://www.savvysearch.com
DirectHit
http://www.directhit.com/about/index.html
CNET top 5 search engines
http://home.cnet.com/category/topic/0,10000,0-3817-7-276910,00.html
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
CNET meta search
http://www.search.com/
or http://www.savvysearch.com/

infospace search engine
http://www.infospace.com/

Ted Haynes: Electronic Commerce Dictionary
http://www.tedhaynes.com/haynes1/mtoz.html

search engines
http://www.islandnet.com/~pb/engines.html

search/language translation

http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/


SMS messaging
Thought controlware
Ultra Wideband personal area networks
Voice recognition
Wearable computers