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PickIt - Task-Oriented User Interface for Smartphones

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About

With PickIt you can upload photos to a Media Server, browse through its content and show pictures, listen to music or watch movies from the Media Server through the Media Renderer. PickIt shows an example of task-based user interfaces.

PickIt makes your smartphone a controller for your UPnP Media Server and Media Renderer devices. PickIt is based on the Universal Control Hub Architecture and the Universal Remote Console (URC) framework. It runs on the Windows Mobile platform, and connects to the Universal Control Hub which functions as a control point for UPnP AV devices in the local network.

PickIt demonstrates the versatility of the Universal Control Hub architecture, supporting various mobile devices to function as controllers for existing Targets. Target vendors can deploy their user interfaces (in different formats) to the MyURC resource server where they will be picked up by the Universal Control Hub and eventually rendered on appropriate controller devices.

PickIt running on the Motorola Q smartphone (Windows Mobile)

PickIt running on a Motorola Q, as demonstrated at CES 2007.

Quick Facts

Note: PickIt is based on an older version of the UCH, and is not available for download.

Demo Video

A video clip is available on YouTube.

Acknowledgement

The creation of the underlying software was funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), US Department of Education under grants H133E980008, and H133E990006; the National Science Foundation (NSF) via the Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI); and gifts from Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.

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Last update: Gottfried Zimmermann, 2009-06-22

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