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Contemporary Research, CS Focus
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| Home Networking API group |
cnet article, 10/12/98 |
| Automotive Multimedia Interface Consortium |
SUN led group, San Jose Mercury News article, 10/19/98 |
| PC Magazine |
special new technologies article - 'Computing in the New Milennium' |
| Toshiba |
new gesture recognition research |
| NCR |
Networked Microwave. Also new from Japan, see Cyberfridge & Security Systems.
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| IBM Home Director |
add'l PC World and MSNBC coverage
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| Microsoft Research: EasyLiving |
Vision-based interfaces for "self-aware" computers assisting tasks within living spaces.
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| MIT AI Lab: Intelligent Room |
Updated since with HAL.
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| MIT AI Lab: HAL |
Speech recognition & computer vision interfaces.
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| MIT Media Lab: KidsRoom |
Interactive narrative playspace for children. Images + lighting + sound + computer vision.
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| Olivetti Overview |
Active Badge continues - most impressive prototype: smart coffee machine.
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| U Colorado: Adapative
House |
Sensor-based neural nets engage home owners for control over basic comfort systems like heat, hot water.
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| Xerox PARC: Ubiquitous
Computing |
Mark Weiser's page dates to 1996.
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| Xerox PARC: PARCTAB |
Handheld devices put to use in a wireless office setting. |
| Xerox PARC: ZombieBoard |
Sophisticated whiteboard scanner employing computer vision.
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| Carnegie Mellon Vision & Autonomous Systems Center |
A large group within CMU Robotics Institute.
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| Philips VoF - HomeLife |
Futuristic, design-oriented perspectives on future home living filled with electronic consumer products.
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| NASA Ames Autonomous Systems Group |
Robot filled environments.
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| Mark Tilden/Los Alamos - BEAM Robots |
BEAM = Biology * Electronics * Aesthetics * Mechanics, also 9/94 Wired Magazine article |
| Intel Connected Car PC |
A detailed description of one of the most sophisticated multi-user digital environments around. |
| uniView & Eliot Soloway Health Link |
The two also collaborated on a similar education-oriented project, Learning about Breathing in Detroit Public Schools |
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Related University Research, Architecture & Environment Focus |
| Carnegie Mellon Intelligent Workplace (pdf) |
Entire building floor. Thoughtful integration of architecture, psychology, & information systems. * New Article, Metropolis 11/98
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| University of Miami School of Architecture - New Urbanism |
New Urbanism is the architecture movement behind places like Seaside FL, the place in The Truman Show. |
| UVa, Bill McDonough - Sustainable Design |
Sustainable design is an architecture & design movement that stresses zero environmental impact.
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| Bill Mitchell, MIT Architecture Dean |
Writes extensively about the role of technology in the built environment. |
| Columbia University - Biosphere 2 |
The most complicated environment constructed by man. |
| * Oberlin |
the new Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies |
| * RISD Universal Kitchen |
an ongoing collaboration between RISD, Frigidaire, and Fraunhofer-IGD Rostock |
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Household Ethnography Research
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| The Doblin Group |
Chicago consulting firm, see briefs on current research into food, www.futureoffood.com, past research into homelife.
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| Interval Research |
Demographic & lifestyle surveys enable them to have more realistic, but still futuristic digital prototypes.
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| Intel's Applications & Content Architecture Lab |
recent San Jose Mercury News article |
| UK Wired Neighborhood Experiment |
a Microsoft project covered in NY Times, 10/13/98 |
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Functioning Commercial Digital Environments
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| MTV Real World Set Design |
A living space created for full fledged television production. |
| Domespace |
Advertised as "THE HOUSE THAT TURNS WITH THE SUN"! |
| Steelcase Pathways |
July 98 article describing one state of the art office furniture system. Also, the Steelcase corp page. |
| Correctional Management, Inc. |
Software solutions for managing parolees in halfway houses. |
| Sega GameWorks |
Maximum digital location based entertainment. |
| Symbol Technologies Wireless Hospital |
Digital environment designed to improve care across entire sections of hospitals. |
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Commercial Architecture & Design |
| 1998 Industrial
Design Excellence Awards |
Designer's picks as the best recent Environmental Designs. |
| Rockwell Group |
Architects responsible for Planet Hollywood restaurants & other high profile environments. |
| Arcosanti |
Designed community with a long history & a new focus on technology. |
| The Foam Home |
Foam beats lumber! |
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Building Resources |
| New Materials |
May 98 article on unique materials applied to environments with great effect. |
| Computer Chronicles, 2/10/98 |
Home Design Software |
| Integrated Homes |
On-line smart house resource |
| hometoys.com |
also see www.x10.com and www.mastervoice.com |
| Electronic House |
web version of the magazine |
| eDesign |
State of Fla sponsored site describing Best Practices in Design & Planning |
| comp.home.automation |
newsgroup |
| Honeywell Technology Center |
leader in control systems |
| Savoy Automation |
IBM partner, makers of CyberHouse |
| Smart Corporation |
ambitious home automation company, check the May 98 WSJ article |
| CEBus Industrial Council |
called the 'CIC', they have created the PlugLab at the Purdue campus in Indianapolis, IN |
| * Asian Sources |
more electronic gadgets than you could shake a stick at |
| * New Home Network |
on-line listing of thousands of newly constructed homes |
