Dan Ports
2002/04/05

Impromptu, http://impromptu.media.mit.edu/
 
 The Impromptu project used iPaq PDAs and wireless audio streaming to
create a platform for various distributed audio applications. Because
the project I'm working on uses some code from Impromptu, I was
already familiar with parts of what they had done, but I felt it would
be interesting to look at the rest of their results as well.

 Their site had quite a bit of helpful information about their project,
explaining the interface and architecture of both their audio-based
applications and the platform. The details of how they implemented
streaming audio were directly related to what I'm working on now
(though for the most part, I had that information previously), as was
the telephony application they described. It was also especially
interesting to read their results of user evaluation of their
speech-based user interface.