Archived Proiects
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Memory Support for People With Episodic Memory Impairment
People with episodic memory impairment (EMI) lack an awareness of the actions, events and experiences of their everyday lives. This often results in confu...
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End-User Programming of Context-Aware Systems
Context-aware systems adapt to users’ context of use. We are investigating novel interaction techniques to support end-users in building their own context...
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MOVE: Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments
MOVE (Maps Optimized for Vehicular Environments) is an in-car navigation system that provides assistance for drivers who are navigating an unfamiliar rout...
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IMPACT: Improving and Motivating Physical Activity Through ContexT
A large percentage of the US population is overweight or obese, and a leading cause of this is lack of physical activity. Early fieldwork has shown that u...
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User-Controllable Privacy and Security for Pervasive Computing
Currently, it is hard to manage privacy and security in mobile and pervasive computing environments, both for system administrators and end-users. We are ...
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Automatic Sign Detection, Recognition, and Translation
Signs are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we understand them, but they can pose problems or even danger when we do not. Automatic...
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Improving Driving Routes Through Learning Driver Preferences
Most route recommendation systems ignore the context of the driver (e.g. time of day) and the preferences of the driver (e.g. like to avoid highways). Not...
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Social Ties in the Internet Age
Project description: Proximity generally increases the likelihood of personal and work relationships, and geographic mobility disrupts them. Is this true ...
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CareMedia
CareMedia uses behavioral capture, storage, and access techniques to create, maintain, and present a patient’s behavioral log to care-givers. Our current ...
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Lente Design Workshop
This project focuses on supporting the wakeup routine of dual-income parents. One of the first pieces we are focusing on is an alarm clock that helps keep...
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inTouch: Awareness and Messaging for Mobile Groups
inTouch is a mobile messaging platform that provides group-based communities (such as families, research work groups, carpools, etc) a better way to coord...
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StepGreen
StepGreen is an umbrella project that brings together faculty and research from several disciplines including behavioral science, environmental engineerin...
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Automatically Adapting Interfaces to User Needs
We are working to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that automatically detect a user’s needs in order to automatically adjust the interface to accom...
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Marmite: End User Programming for the Web
The goal of Marmite is to make it easy to create "mashups" that combine content from multiple web sites and web services. Marmite lets end-users extract c...
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Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation
Systems enabling large audiences to interact offer numerous possibilities for entertainment, education, and team building. We are developing interaction t...
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Creating Peripheral Displays
People who engage regularly with technology interact with hundreds of visual, auditory, and multimodal displays each day. These displays, which have been ...
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Five Features for Human-Robot Interaction
This project explores how gaze, speech and sound, small movements, gesture, and proximity to the user affects the way that we perceive and work with socia...
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Gestures Project
In face-to-face settings, people use pointing and other gestures to communicate quickly and efficiently with their conversational partners. The aims of th...
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Aura: Distraction-Free Ubiquitous Computing
The focus of the research is on automatic configuration of an environment such as a device-rich room at all levels (networks/ devices, software infrastruc...
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Coordination in Open Source Software Development
Open-source software runs the Internet and challenges commercial software in many areas. Despite this success, it is not clear how the open-source paradig...