Publications > Current Brochure > Overviews > Design for People > Technology > Software Engineering > Social Implications Other Documentation > Presentations > Proposals > Current Brochure and Project Demo Inserts The current Aware Home brochure is an 11x17" folded to form a folder, which can accomodate the project inserts. The PDF version is available below: Brochure Cover Spread (PDF - 261 kB) Brochure Interior Spread (PDF - 2.82 MB) Brochure Project Inserts > Overviews "Sensing the Subtleties of Everyday Life" This article is a good general overview of the project. It appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Research Horizons, the research magazine of Georgia Tech. "Living laboratories: The future computing environments group at the georgia institute of technology" Abowd, Gregory D., C. Atkeson, A. Bobick, I. Essa, B. MacIntyre, E. Mynatt, and T. Starner, In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2000[PDF]. "The Aware Home: Developing Technologies for Successful Aging" Abowd, G. A. Bobick, I. Essa, E. Mynatt, and W. Rogers, bibl. To appear. Workshop held in conjunction with American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference 2002, Alberta, Canada, July 2002., (2002). workshop publication Accepted of Collection: , "Proceedings of AAAI Workshop and Automation as a Care Giver" "The Impact of Technology on Living Environments for Elderly Adults" Horgas, Ann L. and Gregory D. Abowd, bibl. Chapter appearing in NRC commissioned report based on workshop in January 2003. To appear., (2003). chapter in book Accepted of Collection: , "National Research Council report Workshop on Adaptive Aging" "The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research" Kidd, Cory D., Robert J. Orr, Gregory D. Abowd, Christopher G. Atkeson, Irfan A. Essa, Blair MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt, Thad E. Starner and Wendy Newstetter. In the Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings - CoBuild'99. Position paper, October 1999[PDF]. This paper explains some of our vision on technology- and human-centered research themes. > Design for People "The Human Experience" Abowd, Gregory D., Elizabeth D. Mynatt, and Tom Rodden. In IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2002[PDF]. "Psychology and aging: Enhancing the lives of an aging population." Fisk, Arthur D., & Rogers, W. A., Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 11, (2002), p. 107. Published "The use of communication technologies by older adults: Exploring the benefits from the user's perspective." Melenhorst, A. S., Rogers, W. A., and Caylor, E. C., bibl. pp. 221-225, Santa Monica, CA: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, (2001). conference paper Published of Collection: , "Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 46th Annual Meeting" "Effectiveness of audio and visual training presentation modes for glucometer calibration" McLaughlin, A. C., Rogers, W. A., & Fisk, A. D., bibl. Presented at Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 47th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD., (2003). Presentation Accepted "Learning to use a home medical device: Mediating age-related differences with training." Mykityshyn, A. L., Fisk, A. D., & Rogers, W. A., Human Factors, vol. 44, (2002), p. 354. Published "Developing technology to support the functional independence of older adults" Mynatt, Elizabeth D., and Wendy A. Rogers. Ageing International, 2002[PDF]. "Digital family portraits: Providing peace of mind for extended family members" Mynatt, Elizabeth D., James Rowan, Sarah Craighill and Anne Jacobs. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2001[PDF]. "Increasing the opportunities for Aging-in-Place" Mynatt, E.D., Irfan Essa, and Wendy Rogers In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Universal Usability, 2000[PDF]. "Cross-generation communication via digital picture frames" Mynatt, Elizabeth D., and James Rowan. In Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics 2000[PDF]. "How can technology contribute to the quality of life of older adults?" Rogers, W. A., and Mynatt, E. D., bibl. Individual chapter, (2003). Chapter in Book Published of Collection: M. E. Mitchell, "The technology of humanity: Can technology contribute to the quality of life?" "Peek-a-drawer: Communication by furniture" Siio, I., James Rowan, and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. In Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2002[PDF]. "Getting into the Living Memory Box: Family archives and holistic design" Stevens, Molly, Gregory D. Abowd, Khai N. Truong and Florian Vollmer, bibl. Presented at HP Labs in Bristol, England, May 6-8, 2003, (2003). conference publication Published of Collection: , "Proceedings of the 1st Internatonal Conference on Appliance Design (1AD)," "The Living Memory Box: Function, Form and User Centered Design" Stevens, Molly, Florian Vollmer and Gregory D. Abowd, bibl. Interactive poster, pp. 668-669, Minneapolis, MN, April 2002, (2002). conference publications Published of Collection: , "Extended Abstracts for Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2002)" "Music Monitor: Ambient Musical Data for the Home" Tran, Quan T. and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. In Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics, 2000[PDF]. "What Was I Cooking? Towards Deja Vu Displays of Everyday Memory" Tran, Quan T. and Elizabeth D. Mynatt. 2002[PDF]. > Technology "Generalized Role-Based Access Control for Securing Future Applications" Covington, Michael J., Matthew J. Moyer, and Mustaque Ahamad. Technical Report GIT-CC-00-02, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, February 1, 2000[PDF]. "A Context-based Infrastructure for Smart Environments" Dey,Anind K., Daniel Salber and Gregory D. Abowd. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments (MANSE '99), Dublin, Ireland, December 1999PDF]. "Computers Seeing People" Essa, Irfan. In AI Magazine, Volume 20 (1), 69--82, Summer 1999[PDF]. (You need to be an AAAI member)) "Ubiquitous Sensing for Smart and Aware Environments: Technologies towards the building of an Aware Home" Essa, Irfan. Position Paper for the DARPA/NSF/NIST Workshop on Smart Environments, July 1999[PDF]. "Recognizing Multitasked Activities from Video using Recognizing Multitasked Activities from Video using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar" Moore, D. and I. Essa, bibl. To appear. Alberta, Canada, July 2002., (2002). conference paper Accepted of Collection: , "Proceedings of American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference 2002" "Exploiting Human Actions and Object Context for Recognition Tasks" Moore, D., I. Essa, and M. Hayes. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 1999 (ICCV’99), Corfu, Greece, March 1999[PDF]. "The Smart Floor: A Mechanism for Natural User Identification and Tracking" Orr, Robert J. and Gregory D. Abowd To appear in the Proceedings of the 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000), The Hague, Netherlands, April 1-6, 2000[PDF]. "Towards Reliable Multimodal Sensing in Aware Environments" Stillman, S. and I. Essa, bibl. November, (2001). workshop publication Published of Collection: , "Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI 2001) Workshop" "ARGmode: Activity Recognition using Graphical Models" Hamid, M. R., Y. Huang, I. Essa , bibl. to Appear in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Event Mining, Event Detection, and Recognition in Video, held in Conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitio, (2003). conference Proceedings Accepted "Towards a General Framework for Recognition of Activities and Anamolies" Huang, Y., M. R. Hamid, I. Essa, , bibl. Submitted to International Conference on Computer Vision 2003, Beijing, China, 2003., (2000). Conference Submitted "Expectation Grammars: Leveraging High-Level Expectations for Activity Recognition" Minnen, David, I. Essa, and T. Starner, bibl. To appear in IEEE Proceedings of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference 2003, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2003, (2003). Conference Proceedings Accepted "Fast Multi Camera Head Pose Tracking" Ruddarraju, R., A. Haro, and I. Essa, , bibl. To appear in Proceedings of Visual Interface Conference 2003, Halifax, Canada, June 2003, (). Conference Proceedings Accepted "Perceptual User Interfaces using Vision-based Eye Tracking" Ruddarraju, R., A. Haro, K. Nagel, I. Essa, and G. Abowd, , bibl. Submitted to ACM International Conference on Multi-modal and Perceptual User Interfaces 2003, Vancouver, Canada, 2003, (2003). Conference Submitted "The Representation and Recognition of Activity UsingPropagation Nets" Shi, Yifan, and A. Bobick, , bibl. To appear in Proceedings of Visual Interface Conference 2003, Halifax, Canada, June 2003, (2003). Conference Proceedings Accepted "P-Net: A Representation for Partially-Sequenced, ulti-stream Activity" Shi, Yifan, and A. Bobick,, bibl. to Appear in Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Event Mining, Event Detection, and Recognition in Video, held in Conjunction with IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognitio, (2003). Conference Proccedings Accepted "Activity Recognition Using Discrete-State Particle Filters in Propagation Nets" Shi, Yifan, and A. Bobick, , bibl. Submitted to International Conference on Computer Vision 2003, Beijing, China, 2003., (2003). Conference Submitted > Software Engineering "Programming Environments: A Grand Challenge for Computing" Abowd, Gregory D. , bibl. Position paper appearing in June 2002 workshop., (2002). Position paper online workshop proceedings. of Collection: , "Computing Research Association Grand Challenges in Computing workshop" "The Location Service: A framework for handling multiple location sensing technologies" Abowd, G., A. Battestini, and T. O'Connell 2002[PDF]. "Context modeling and warehousing: From sensor data to application context." Harvel, Lonnie, Ling Liu, Gregory Abowd and Yu-Xi Lim, bibl. Submitted April 2002., (2002). conference technical note Submitted of Collection: , "Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002 Conference." "Practices for Capturing Short Important Thoughts" Hayes, Gillian, Jeff Pierce and Gregory D. Abowd, bibl. Interactive poster description in Extended Abstracts, pages 904-905. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2003., (2003). conference proceedings Published of Collection: , "Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2003." "Designing for Conversation: Bridging the Interaction Challenges" Nagel, Kristine S. and Gregory D. Abowd Submitted for review to CHI 2002[PDF]. "Personal Audio Loop: Reminders from a PAL" Truong, G. K. and G. Abowd 2002[PDF]. "INCA: Architectural Support for Building Automated Capture & Access Applications" Truong, K. and G. Abowd, Submitted for review to UIST 2002[PDF]. > Social Implications "A framework for comparing perspectives on privacy and pervasive technologies", Jacobs, Anne R. and Gregory D. Abowd, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, (2003), p. Accepted "Privacy, Technology, and Terrorism: Bartnicki, Kyllo, and the Normative Struggle Behind Competing Claims to Solitude and Security" Terrell, T. and A. Jacobs 2002[PDF]. > Presentations "An Aware Home: Making Living Independently and Working Easier for Everyone" (HTML) Presentation by Brian Jones at the Georgia Workforce Development Conference, November 1, 2006. (HTML, PPT*) *HTML version includes supporting videos "Building an Aware Home" Presentation by Irfan Essa at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, July 1, 1999. (HTML, PPT) > Proposals "Enhancing the Quality of Life with Context-Aware Computing, Personalized Information Processing & Secure Broadband Communications" NSF ITR Pre-Proposal "PIHS: Personalized Instrumented Health System" NSF Pre-Proposal 2002[PDF].