| Gregory Abowd... | Chris Atkeson... | Jen Mankoff |
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Think about all of the uses of a refrigerator in the common household. It can be used as a container of food, of course, but it also serves as much more than that. Cyberfridge electronically enables a set of tasks which are often centered around the fridge: making shopping lists, leaving notes, posting information and pictures. It's computational capabilities and network connection allow us to expand these tasks. For example, cyberfridge can cross index the shopping list, the (known) contents of the fridge, and a recipe database in order to suggest what you can make for dinner or what ingredients you need to buy.
Cyberfridge represents the future direction of computing in the home: a decentralized network of machines which can preform task-specific computations and communicate with eachother.
