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   Feb 8 
Class 1
Introduction to Ambient Intelligence
Pattie Maes
FORMS DUE

Slides:
Introduction to Ambient Intelligence
Presentation on our group's work
 
Feb 15
Class 2
Introduction to Ambient Intelligence (Cont'd)
Pattie Maes
SCENARIO PAPERS DUE

required:
That’s what friends are for: Ambient Intelligence and the Information Society of 2010 by Ducatel et.al.

Social, Economic and ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing by Bohn et al.

Optional:
Philips Password magazine, special issue on Ambient
Intelligence


 
Feb 22
Class 3
Common Sense and Intelligence Interfaces
Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu and Push Singh
required: 
Beating some Common Sense into Interactive Applications, Lieberman et. Al.

optional:
ConceptNet: A Practical Commonsense reasoning toolkit
The aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space


Mar 1
Class 4
Location Based Systems
Pattie Maes and students
SCENARIO PAPER #2 DUE

required
Challenges in location-aware computing (Patterson et al)

optional:
Eric Pfeiffer, Whereware, Technology Review 2003
Expanding the horizons of location-aware computing (Roy Want et al)


1. City & museum tour guides
Matt Adcock's slides on Location based city and museum guides
Hippie: A Nomadic Information System, Oppermann et al, Proceedings of the 1st
international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Cyberguide by Abowd et al
GUIDE project by Cheverst, Davies, et al

2. Virtual Graffiti systems/Location Based Messaging
Isha's slides on Virtual Graffiti Systems
Hanging Messages, Chang
ComMotion, Marmasse
Etherthreads, Lassey
Mobile cinema, P. Pan
Geonotes, Persson etal
UCSD ActiveCampus

3. Memory systems
Forget-me-not Mick Lamming Europarc

Urban Tapestries: Wireless networking, public authoring and social knowledge, Giles Lane1
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, July 2003

Mar 8
Class 5
Ubiquitous Computing 
Pattie Maes + students

Location-based Systems"
Frederico Casalegno (E-Lens project)
PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE

required:  
Ubiquitous Computing, Weiser, 1993
Perspectives article for ACM Interactions, Weiser 1993
The coming age of calm technology, Weiser & Seely Brown, 1996

optional:
Beyond prototypes: Challenges ... (Davies et al)

Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing, Weiser 1993
Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing
GD Abowd, ED Mynatt, 2000
Selection from UbiComp Proceedings last 5 years

Mar 15
Class 6
User Modeling, Personalization + Recommender Systems
Pattie Maes + students
required:
Beyond Algorithms: An HCI Perspective on Recommender Systems
Alfred Kobsa, Generic User Modeling Systems, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, v.11 n.1-2, p.49-63, 2001


Mar 22
Class 7
Tangible + Ambient Interfaces
Hiroshi Ishii

Pattie Maes + students
required:  
Tangible Bits, Ishii + Ullmer, CHI97   [presentation]  [videos]
check out website Tangible Media Group

optional:  
Minna, Amy & Edison
papers by H. Ishii see class website for all the links

“Slow Technology”, Hallnas & Redstrom
Personal + Ubiquitous Computing Journal Vol 8 Nr 5 Special Issue on Tangible Computing
Ambient Interfaces: Design Challenges and Recommendations”, Fraunhofer Institute
Cohen & McGee, Tangible Multi-modal Interfaces 
Mobile Feelings, Sommerer + Laurent Mignonneau
Forget Me Not

Mar 29  NO CLASS (Spring Vacation) 

  Apr 5
Class 8
Augmented Reality/Mixed Realities 
Pattie Maes + students
required:  
Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing, Steven K. Feiner, 2002

optional:
Introduction to Augmented Reality by J. Vallino
Steve Feiner's work, eg project "Karma" 
CACM Special issue on AR, 1993, Vol 36, #7 

Apr 12
Class 9
Augmented Realily / Workspaces
David Merrill
Students
optional:
Designing interactive paper
Presence Journal special issue on AR, 1997
Wellner, P. The DigitalDesk Calculator: Tangible Manipulation on a Desk Top Display, Proceedings of UIST'91, 1991, 27-33 
The Perceptive Workbench: Toward Spontaneous and Natural Interaction
in SemiImmersive Virtual Environments (2000)
Bastian Leibe, Thad Starner
EnhancedDesk and EnhancedWall: Augmented Desk and
Wall Interfaces, Nakanishi et al 
Interactivedesk, Johnson, W., Jellinek, H., Klotz, L. and Card, S. Bridging the Paper and Electronic Worlds: The Paper User Interface, Proceedings of INTERCHI'93, 1993, 507-512 
"Listen reader" - an electronically augmented paper-based book 
The Escritoire: A personal projected display for interacting with documents (2002) Mark Ashdown

Animated & Electronic Paper Experiments (e.g. Wellner)
Apr 19
Class 10
Intelligent Environments
Pattie Maes + students
PROJECT UPDATE DUE (1 page)

required:  
optional:
Georgia Tech Aware Home Project
Stanford iRoom Project
MIT Media Lab smart rooms project:  Pentland, Smart Rooms, Scientific American, Vol 274 + http://vismod.media.mit.edu/
MIT CSAIL Ogygen project + Aire (Agent-based Intelligent Reactive Environments) research group: http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/ + http://aire.csail.mit.edu/
MIT House-N
Philips Home Lab Project

Apr 26
Class 11
Embedded Intelligence/Smart Objects
Pattie Maes + students
required:

optional:
Tutorial on RFID technology      
Objects with embedded sensors, computation, & networking 
Sensor & Actuator Networks, Special Issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing, Oct 2003 
Mobility, Service Discovery, Auto Configuration and Ad-Hoc Networking
Disappearing Hardware, R. Want et. Al. IEEE Pervasive Computing
The Evolution of Objects Into Hyper-Objects: Will It Be Mostly Harmless?, Irene Mavrommati1 and Achilles Kameas
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, July 2003


May 3
Class 12
Wearables / e-Textiles
Pattie Maes + students
required:
E-Broidery: Design and Fabrication of textile-based computing

optional:
Electronic Textiles: A platform for Pervasive Computing
Interactive and Experiential Design in Smart Textile Products and Applications
Memory Rich Clothing: Second Skins that Communicate Physical Memory
The Emotional Wardrobe, Lisa Stead1, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous computing, July 2004


May 10
Class 13
Awareness Systems
Pattie Maes and Students
Required:
Keeping in touch with the family: Home and away, ASTRA
Casablanca: awareness systems in a home setting

optional:
Linking Public Spaces: Technical and Social Issues, Microsoft Research
Casy: Awareness system for children in physically distributed families.
Telewindows: realtime video connections for the elderly
ComZones: Video mediated communication in home settings
Portholes, XEROX Parc

  May 17
Class 14
  PROJECT PRESENTATION + PAPER DUE