Georgia Tech's 
Aware Home
Research Initiative

Project Information

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.
• "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. (HTML, Word, PPT Presentation) This paper explains some of our vision on technology- and human-centered research themes.

Publications

• "Computers Seeing People"
  Essa, I.
  In AI Magazine, Volume 20 (1), 69--82, Summer 1999.(Abstract | PS | PDF (You need to be an AAAI member))
• "Ubiquitous Sensing for Smart and Aware Environments:Technologies towards the building of an Aware Home"
  Essa, I.
  Position Paper for the DARPA/NSF/NIST Workshop on Smart Environments, July 1999.
• "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.
• "The Smart Floor: A Mechanism for Natural User Identification and Tracking"
  Robert J. Orr 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.
• "Generalized Role-Based Access Control for Securing Future Applications"
  Michael J. Covington, Matthew J. Moyer, and Mustaque Ahamad.
  Technical Report GIT-CC-00-02, Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Computing, February 1, 2000. Available as [PostScript, PDF]

Presentations

• "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 and Secure Broadband Communications"
  NSF ITR Pre-Proposal

In the Media

• October 18, 1999 Atlanta Business Chronicle, High-tech home is habitat for `lifestyle computing'. by Brian Moran.