Building an Aware Home: Understanding the symbiosis between computing and everyday activities

9/1/99


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Building an Aware Home: Understanding the symbiosis between computing and everyday activities

Who are we?

Outline

Research Objectives

Living Laboratory for Human-Home Symbiosis

An aware home

Specific Applications

Where are we?

Outside

Basement

Living floors (2 floors)

Other “smart homes”

Outline

Research themes

Technological Challenges - I

Technological Challenges - II

Technological Challenges - III

User-centric Challenges - I

User-centric Challenges - II

Outline

Aware Spaces

Computational Perception

Perceptual Analysis

Sensors (Optical / Cameras)

Experiences

3D models of rooms (Brostow & Essa, ICCV 1999)

Video

Multiple Cameras (Stillman, Essa, et al., AVBPA 1999)

Video

System Architecture

Pose tracking (Schödl, Essa, PUI 1998, PDPTA 1999)

Video

Distributed Tracking

Speed-up Curves

Example: Recognizing Activity (Moore, Essa, Hayes, AVBPA 1999 and ICCV 1999)

Video

Recognition Results

Other Projects (not there yet!)

Outline

What is context?

Context-aware applications

Easier said than done!

The Context Toolkit (Salber, Dey, & Abowd CHI 1999)

Beyond the GUI analogy

Components

Experience

Outline

“Aging in Place”

Connected Family

Cognitive Support

Requirements Analysis

Outline

Test-beds

Future

Summary

The end

Why a living laboratory?

Living laboratory experience

Author: Irfan Essa

Email: irfan@cc.gatech.edu

Home Page: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~irfan

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