Ajalon: Simplifying the authoring of wearable cognitive assistants

Truong An Pham; Junjue Wang; Roger Iyengar; Yu Xiao; Padmanabhan Pillai; Roberta Klatzky; Mahadev Satyanarayanan

doi:10.1002/spe.2987

Ajalon: Simplifying the authoring of wearable cognitive assistants

Truong An Pham^*, Junjue Wang, Roger Iyengar, Yu Xiao, Padmanabhan Pillai, Roberta Klatzky, Mahadev Satyanarayanan

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Wearable Cognitive Assistance (WCA) amplifies human cognition in real time through a wearable device and low-latency wireless access to edge computing infrastructure. It is inspired by, and broadens, the metaphor of GPS navigation tools that provide real-time step-by-step guidance, with prompt error detection and correction. WCA applications are likely to be transformative in education, health care, industrial troubleshooting, manufacturing, assisted driving, and sports training. Today, WCA application development is difficult and slow, requiring skills in areas such as machine learning and computer vision that are not widespread among software developers. This paper describes Ajalon, an authoring toolchain for WCA applications that reduces the skill and effort needed at each step of the development pipeline. Our evaluation shows that Ajalon significantly reduces the effort needed to create new WCA applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1773-1797
Number of pages	25
Journal	Software - Practice and Experience
Volume	51
Issue number	8
Early online date	18 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.2987
Publication status	Published - Aug 2021
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

artificial intelligence
augmented reality
cloudlets
computer vision
edge computing
Gabriel
machine learning
mobile computing
software productivity
wearables

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