The Pixi Lab » Project: Home Networking

Formative work on uCap to be presented at CHI 2012

pixi-editor — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:41:51 +0000

Marshini’s paper “You’re Capped” Understanding the Effects of Broadband Caps on Broadband Use in the Home will be presented at the upcoming CHI conference in Austin, TX.

The study of how households in South Africa manage bandwidth caps showed that people have a hard time tracking their balance and understanding what or who is using up their bandwidth. This work informed the design of uCap, a tool to help households track, share, and manage bandwidth caps in their homes. A field study on uCap is planned for Summer 2012 – stay tuned for updates.

Helping Users Shop for ISPs with Internet Nutrition Labels

pixi-editor — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:39:56 +0000

S. Sundaresan, N. Feamster, R. Teixeira, A. Tang, W.K. Edwards, R.E. Grinter, M. Chetty and W. de Donato. Helping Users Shop for ISPs with Internet Nutrition Labels. Proceedings of HomeNets Workshop at SIGCOMM 2011. Toronto, Canada. August 15-19, 2011.

Communicating with Caps: Managing Usage Caps in Home Networks

pixi-editor — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:35:50 +0000

H. Kim, S. Sundaresan, M. Chetty, N. Feamster and W.K. Edwards. Communicating with Caps: Managing Usage Caps in Home Networks. Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2011. Toronto, Canada. August 15-19, 2011.

Advancing the State of Home Networking

pixi-editor — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:48:58 +0000

W. Keith Edwards, Rebecca Grinter, Ratul Mahajan, David Wetherall. “Advancing the State of Home Networking.” Communications of the ACM, June 2011. pp. 62-71.

Pixi Lab home networking research featured in CACM

pixi-editor — Tue, 31 May 2011 23:46:15 +0000

Our research on home networking is featured in the June, 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM, the flagship publication of the Association of Computing Machinery.

Pixi Lab wins NSF Infrastructure award

pixi-editor — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:33:14 +0000

The Pixi Lab has been awarded a National Science Foundation Computing Research Infrastructure Award: CNS-1059350, “Collaborative Research: Measurement Infrastructure for Home Networks.” Keith Edwards (Co-PI), along with Nick Feamster (PI, Georgia Tech) and Ken Calvert (Co-PI, University of Kentucky), have received $545,357 to create and deploy a “home network data recorder” to collect a variety of home network metrics across the U.S., with the goal of informing both policy and technical research.

Pixi Lab receives Intel Research funding

pixi-editor — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:25:57 +0000

Keith has recently received $80,000 in unrestricted funds, plus in-kind hardware support, from Intel for support of Pixi Lab Home Networking Research. The project, “Understanding Current User Practices in Device-Rich Social Settings,” will explore end-user behavior in the home environment by monitoring aspects of home network usage.

Instrumenting Home Networks

pixi-editor — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:48:58 +0000

K.L. Calvert, W.K. Edwards, N. Feamster, R.E. Grinter, Y. Deng, X. Zhou. “Instrumenting Home Networks.” To appear in ACM Computer Communications Review (CCR), 2011.

Keith delivers keynote at SIGCOMM Homenets Workshop

pixi-editor — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:44:17 +0000

Keith gave the keynote, “Human-Network Interaction: Building Bridges Between HCI and Networking Research,” at the First SIGCOMM Homenets workshop, in New Delhi, India.

Eden: Supporting Home Network Management Through Interactive Visual Tools

pixi-editor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:35:13 +0000

J. Yang, W.K. Edwards, and D. Haslem, “Eden: Supporting Home Network Management Through Interactive Visual Tools.” In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), New York, NY. October 3-6, 2010.