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CIS 677 Knowledge-Based Interfaces

READINGS

Rooms/Architecture as Interface

ambientROOM: Integrating ambient media with architectural space (video).Ishii, H., Wisneski, C., Brave, S., Dahley, A., Gorbet, M., Ullmer, B. & Yarin, P. (1998).Extended Abstracts of CHI'98: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 173-174. Download PDF File

Embedding Interactions in a Retail Store Environment: The Design and Lessons Learned, Noi Sukaviriya, Mark Podlaseck, Rick Kjeldsen, Anthony Levas, Gopal Pingali, Claudio Pinhanez. Proc. of the Ninth IFIP International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT'03). Zurich, Switzerland. September 2003.Download PDF File

Ambient displays: Turning architectural space into an interface between people and digital information. Wisneski, C, Ishii, H., Dahley, A., Gorbet, M., Brave, S., Ullmer, B. and Yarin, P. (1998).Proceedings of CoBuild'98: First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, 22-32.Download PDF File

Representing and supporting action on buried relationships in smart environments.Carter, Scott, Mankoff, Jennifer and Goddi, Patrick. (2002)CSCW 2002 Workshop Paper.Download PDF File

Support for Disabled Users

From Data to Display: the Design and Evaluation of a Peripheral Sound Display for the Deaf.Ho-Ching, F. Wai-ling, Jennifer Mankoff, James A. Landay, (2003).Proceedings of CHI 2003. 8 pages. Download PDF File

Performance Art

The Lightwork Performance: Algorithmically Mediated Interaction for Virtual Environments. John Bowed, Sten-Olof Hellstriim, Kai-Mikael Jgiii-Are.Centre for User-Oriented IT-Design (CID), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden CHI 98.pp. 18-23 APRIL 1998. Download PDF File

Staging the space of mixed reality—reconsidering the concept of a multi user environment. Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann, Mette Thomsen, Jasminko Novak, Udo Zlender, Thomas Kulessa, Frank Pragasky. February 1999, Proceedings of the fourth symposium on Virtual reality modeling language Download PDF File

Collaboration in Virtual Environments: Audience interaction for virtual reality theater and its implementation. Sang Chul Ahn, Ig-Jae Kim, Hyoung-Gon Kim, Yong-Moo Kwon, Heedong Ko, November 2001, Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology. Download PDF File

Webpage for Christian-Moeller Watch the video

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Webpage for Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Watch the video

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Technological Implementation

IBM Everywhere Project

Dynamically Reconfigurable Vision-Based User Interfaces. Rick Kjeldsen, Anthony Levas, Claudio Pinhanez. 3rd International Conference on Vision Systems (ICVS'03). Graz, Austria. April 2003. (10 pages) Download PDF File

Steerable Interfaces for Pervasive Computing Spaces. Gopal Pingali, Claudio Pinhanez, Anthony Levas, Rick Kjeldsen, Mark Podlaseck, Han Chen, Noi Sukaviriya, Mark Weiser. IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications - PerCom'03. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. March 2003. (8 pages) Download PDF File

MIT Smart Room Project

Perceptual Intelligence by Alex Pentland, Communications of the ACM, March 2000, page 35-44. (10 pages) Download PDF File

Action Recognition

Dynamic Models of Human Motion by Christopher R. Wren and Alex Pentland, Proceedings of IEEE Face and Gesture Conference 1998. (6 pages) Download PDF File

Understanding Purposeful Human Motion by Christopher R. Wren and Alex Pentland, IEEE International Workshop on Modelling People,September 1999 (7 pages) Download PDF File

Coupled hidden Markov models for complex action recognition by Matthew Brand, Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland, Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97) (6 pages) Download PDF File

Face Recognition

Detection and Tracking of Faces in Real Environments, by R. Herpers, G. Verghese1, K. Derpanis, R. McCready, J. MacLean,A. Levin, D. Topalovic, L. Wood, A. Jepson, J. K. Tsotsos (9 pages) Download PDF File

Meta-Analysis of Face Recognition Algorithms, P. Jonathon Phillips and Elaine M. Newton; Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR 02) (9 pages) Download PDF File

Interaction/Interface Issues

Gesture Recognition

Visual Interpretation of Hand Gestures for Human-Computer Interaction: A Review.Vladimir I. Pavlovic,Rajeev Sharma,and Thomas S. Huang. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, VOL. 19, NO. 7, JULY 1997. (19 pages) Download PDF File

Social spaces

Karahalios, K. & Donath, J. (2004). Telemurals: Linking remote spaces with social catalysts. Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 615-622. (19 pages) Download PDF File

Context-Awareness

Abowd, G.D., C.G. Atkeson, J.I. Hong, S. Long, R. Kooper, and M. Pinkerton, Cyberguide: A Mobile Context-Aware Tour Guide. ACM Wireless Networks 1997. 3(5): p. 421-433.Download PDF File

An Infrastructure Approach to Context-Aware Computing. Hong, J.I. and J.A. Landay. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Journal, 2001. 16(2-3). (23 pages)Download PDF File

The Context Fabric: An Infrastructure for Context-Aware Computing.Hong, J.I. Proceedings of Doctoral Consortium, Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI 2002. Minneapolis, MN 2002. (2 pages)Download PDF File

Daniel Salber, Anind K. Dey and Gregory D. Abowd "The Context Toolkit: Aiding the Development of Context-Enabled Applications" CHI99 (8 pages)Download PDF File

Norman M. Sadeh, Ting-Chak (Enoch) Chan, Linh Van, OhByung Kwon, and Kazuaki Takizawa, "Creating an Open Agent Environment for Context-Aware M-Commerce" in the book “Agentcities: Challenges in Open Agent Environments”, Ed. by Burg, Dale, Finin, Nakashima, Padgham, Sierra, and Willmott, LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp.152-158, 2003 (6 pages)Download PDF File

Information Agents

A Context/Communication Information Agent. Hong, J.I. and J.A. Landay. Personal Technologies (Special Issue on Situated Interaction and Context-Aware Computing), 2001. Download PDF File

Using GPS to learn significant locations and predict movement across multiple users. Daniel Ashbrook & Thad Starner, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2003) 7:275-286.Download PDF File

Ethical issues: Privacy

Privacy Risk Models for Designing Privacy-Sensitive Ubiquitous Computing Systems. Hong, J.I., J. Ng, S. Lederer, and J.A. Landay.Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2004). August 1-4, 2004. Boston, MA. To Appear 2004. Download PDF File

An Architecture for Privacy-Sensitive Ubiquitous Computing. Hong, J.I. and J.A. Landa.(MobiSYS04). June 6-9, 2004. Boston, MA. Download PDF File

BlueSpace: Personalizing Workspace through Awareness and Adaptability, by Jennifer Lai, Anthony Levas, Paul Chou, Claudio Pinhanez, Marisa Viveros; International Journal of Human Computer Studies vol. 57(5): 415-428. 2002. Download PDF File