CS Colloquium on Thursday, Nov 6 at 2PM

Title: Tools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware
       Systems for the Home

Speaker: Stephen Intille, Ph.D.
         Technology Director
         Changing Places / House_n
         MIT Dept. of Architecture

Place: MCS 135, 111 Cummington Street

Abstract:

I will describe some of the work my group at MIT is doing to create tools
for studying and developing ubiquitous computing systems for natural
settings such as the home. We have designed environmental and mobile sensor
technologies that can be easily brought into existing homes and used to
collect (or infer) information about activities of daily living in
non-intrusive, non-stigmatizing ways. I will describe two of the tools,
context-aware experience sampling software and a tape-on ubiquitous motion
sensing system, and I will illustrate how we are using them. I will then
present an overview of the PlaceLab, an observational laboratory under
construction in a residential neighborhood of Cambridge that will be used
to studyTools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware Systems for the
Home ubiquitous computing technologies, particularly "just-in-time"
proactive health care. The PlaceLab is intended to a be a shared academic
resource available to researchers throughout the academic community and may
therefore offer new opportunities for MIT - BU collaboration.

Bio of the Speaker:

Stephen Intille is Technology Director of the Changing Places / House_n:
MIT Home of the Future Project based out of the MIT School of Architecture
and Planning. His research interests include the development of
context-recognition algorithms and interface design strategies for
ubiquitous computing environments. A primary focus is the challenge of
creating spaces and devices that motivate behavior change over long periods
of time, particularly as applied to preventative health care.