{"title":"Interacting with physical devices over the web","authors":"G. Borriello, Eric McManus","doi":"10.1109/MSE.1997.612541","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The educational experience of students in a Computer Engineering capstone design course can be greatly enhanced by providing a framework that enables students to design devices that are accessible over the web. The framework consists of inexpensive hardware and software that permits the connection of arbitrary devices to a web page. Remote users can then interact with the physical device through a form-based or Java-applet interface that can exploit data flow in both directions. Examples of devices that can be connected to the web range from positionable digital cameras to robots to distance-learning aids to home control devices. The contribution of this work is an inexpensive, bi-directional, public-domain method that does not require the insertion of special boards in the machine hosting the hardware nor modification to server software.","PeriodicalId":120048,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of International Conference on Microelectronic Systems Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSE.1997.612541","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The educational experience of students in a Computer Engineering capstone design course can be greatly enhanced by providing a framework that enables students to design devices that are accessible over the web. The framework consists of inexpensive hardware and software that permits the connection of arbitrary devices to a web page. Remote users can then interact with the physical device through a form-based or Java-applet interface that can exploit data flow in both directions. Examples of devices that can be connected to the web range from positionable digital cameras to robots to distance-learning aids to home control devices. The contribution of this work is an inexpensive, bi-directional, public-domain method that does not require the insertion of special boards in the machine hosting the hardware nor modification to server software.