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 * Thur 1 Sept || **Introductions**.
 * wiki accounts
 * 301 access & computer account if needed
 * initial paper presentations ||
 * Tue 6 Sept || **Sign up for initial project teams**.

1. [Chelsea Flint] "[|The Computer for the 21st Century]" - //Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks //, September, 1991

2. [Eddie Samuels] Deborah Estrin, David Culler, Kris Pister, Gaurav Sukhatme, "[|Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks]," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 59-69, Jan.-Mar. 2002

3. [Anna Loparev] Jay Silver. 2009. [|Awakening to maker methodology: the metamorphosis of a curious caterpillar]. In //Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children// (IDC '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 242-245. ||
 * Thu 8 Sept || **Project 1 Teams announced.**

4. [Sam Atlas] Kientz, J.A., Patel, S.N., Jones, B., Price, E., Mynatt, E.D., and Abowd, G.D. 2008. The Georgia Tech aware home. In CHI 2008 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. pp. 3675-3680. April 2008. [|[pdf]]

5. [Harry Ledley] Sumi Helal, William Mann, Hicham El-Zabadani, Jeffrey King, Youssef Kaddoura, Erwin Jansen, "[|The Gator Tech Smart House: A Programmable Pervasive Space]," Computer, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 50-60, Mar. 2005

Wiki page about Smart Homes
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 * Tue 13 Sept || 6. [Dan Panzarella] Patel, S.N.__,__ Reynolds, M.S., Abowd, G.D. Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing. In the Proceedings of Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. 2008. pp 1-18. (Acceptance Rate: 15%) **(Received Best Paper Award)**[|[pdf]]

7. [Gabriel Unger] Patel, S.N., Robertson, T., Kientz, J.A., Reynolds, M.S., Abowd, G.D. At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line. In the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2007. pp. 271-288. (Acceptance Rate: 14%) **(Received Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award)** [|[pdf]]

8. [Simon Weber] Froehlich, J., Larson, E., Campbell, T., Haggerty, C., Fogarty, J., and Patel, S.N. (2009). [|HydroSense: Infrastructure-Mediated Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity]. Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2009), pp. 235-244. || Wii || iRobot || Mindwave || Mobile Web Programming || USB Gadgets || Deadline for all Project 1 documentation to be posted to the Wiki Brainstorming begins ||
 * Thu 15 Sept || **Class cancelled. Feel free to come in and work in lab.** ||
 * Tue 20 Sept || **Project 1 presentations begin**
 * Thu 22 Sept || Arduino
 * Tue 27 Sept || Kinect
 * Thu 29 Sept || Insteon
 * Tue 4 Oct || AR Drone Quadcopter
 * Thu 6 Oct || Sifteo
 * Tue 11 Oct || **NO SCHOOL** ||
 * Thu 13 Oct || **Brainstorming and choice of Project 2 topics and teams** ||
 * Tue 18 Oct || 12. [Erin Brady] Alex Mihailidis, Jennifer N Boger, Tammy Craig and Jesse Hoey. [|The COACH prompting system to assist older adults with dementia through handwashing: An efficacy study]. //BMC Geriatrics// 2008, **8****:**28

9. [David Klein] [|Inferring ADLs from Interactions with Objects]. Matthai Philipose, Kenneth P. Fishkin, Mike Perkowitz, Donald J. Patterson, Dirk Hahnel, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz. //IEEE Pervasive Computing//, volume 3, number 4, pages 50-56, 2004.

10. [Elie Glick][| Fine-Grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage]. Donald Patterson, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz, Matthai Philipose. //Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers,// Osaka, Japan, Oct. 2005. ||
 * Thu 20 Oct || 11. [Julian Herwitz] [| Battery-Free Wireless Identification and Sensing, [pdf] ] Matthai Philipose, Joshua R. Smith, Bing Jiang, Kishore Sundara-Rajan, Alexander Mamishev, Sumit Roy. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 37-45, January-March 2005.

13. [Micah Fujiwara] [|Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services]. Donald J. Patterson, Lin Liao, Krzysztof Gajos, Michael Collier, Nik Livic, Katherine Olson, Shiaokai Wang, Dieter Fox, and Henry Kautz. //Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing//, Nottingham, England, 2004. [|Powerpoint slides]. ||
 * Tue 25 Oct || **Project Planning Information**

14. [Sam White] Hazas, M.; Scott, J.; Krumm, J.;, "[|Location-aware computing comes of age]," //Computer// , vol.37, no.2, pp. 95- 97, Feb 2004.

15. [Kevin Layden] Adam Sadilek & Henry Kautz (2010). [|Recognizing Multi-Agent Activities from GPS Data]. //Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence//, July 11–15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA. [|Powerpoint slides]: Video clips: [|goal-prediction.avi] [|CTF-visualization-over-google-maps-zoomed.mov] [|CTF-visualization-over-google-maps.mov]

16. [Kyle Murray] Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2010) "Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability." //IEEE Pervasive Computing.// Vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-19. Jan-Mar 2010. [|pdf (1.8 MB) - © IEEE] ||
 * Thu 27 Oct || 17. [Jason He] Juan Wachs, Mathias Kölsch, Helman Stern, Yael Edan. [|Vision-Based Hand Gesture Interfaces: Challenges and Innovations]. //Communications of the ACM//, Volume 54 Issue 2, February 2011. [|HandVu: Vision-based Hand Gesture Project Home Page].

18. [Aaron Berkkowitz] [|"Bonfire: A Nomadic System for Hybrid Laptop-Tabletop Interaction,"] Shaun K Kane, Daniel Avrahami, Jacob O Wobbrock, Beverly Harrison, Adam Rea, Matthai Philipose and Anthony LaMarca. //User Interface Software and Technology//, 2009.

19. Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes, and Liyan Chang. 2009. [|WUW - wear Ur world: a wearable gestural interface]. In //Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems// (CHI EA '09). //Note: WUW was renamed SixthSense: Link to [|SixthSense Project Website]//. ||
 * Tue 1 Nov || **SPECIFICATION REVIEW - ALL TEAMS** ||
 * Thu 3 Nov || 20. [Sam White] [|Interfaces on the go]. Desney S. Tan, Dan Morris, and T. Scott Saponas. XRDS 16(4):30-34, Jun 2010. ACM, New York, NY.

21. [Simon Weber] Lining Yao, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Nadia Cheng, Jason Spingarn-Koff, Ostap Rudakevych, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2011. [|RopePlus: bridging distances with social and kinesthetic rope games]. In //Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems// (CHI EA '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 223-232. Project Webpage: [|http://ropeplus.media.mit.edu]

22. [Aaron Berkowitz] Tracy L. Westeyn, Julie A. Kientz, Thad Starner, Gregory D. Abowd: [|Designing toys with automatic play characterization for supporting the assessment of a child's development]. IDC 2008: 89-92. ||
 * Tue 8 Nov || **DETAILED DESIGN REVIEW - ALL TEAMS** ||
 * Thu 10 Nov || 21. [David Klein] Alex (Sandy) Pentland, [|To Signal Is Human], American Scientist, Volume 98, 2011.

22. [Eddie Samuels] Hong Lu, Jun Yang, Zhigang Liu, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, [|The Jigsaw Continuous Sensing Engine for Mobile Phone Applications]. In Proc. of //8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2010)//, Zurich, Switzerland, November 3-5, 2010.

23. [Gabriel Unger][| Activity Sensing in the Wild: A Field Trial of UbiFit Garden,]Sunny Consolvo, David W. McDonald , Tammy Toscos , Mike Chen , Jon E. Froehlich , Beverly Harrison , Predrag Klasnja , Anthony LaMarca , Louis LeGrand , Ryan Libby , Ian Smith and James A. Landay. //Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems//, 2008. ||
 * Tue 15 Nov || **ALPHA RELEASE REVIEW - ALL TEAMS** ||
 * Thu 17 Nov || 24.[Sam Atlas] [|Introduction to Face Detection and Face Recognition], Shervin Emami, posted originally on 2nd June, 2010. Also read: [|Seeing With OpenCV, Part 4: Face Recognition With Eigenface], Robin Hewitt, //SERVO Magazine//, April 2007, and [|Seeing With OpenCV, Part 5: Implementing Eigenface], Robin Hewitt, //SERVO Magazine//, May 2007.

25. [Elie Glik] [|RGB-D Mapping: Using Depth Cameras for Dense 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments.] Peter Henry, Michael Krainin, Evan Herbst, Xiaofeng Ren, Dieter Fox, ISER 2010. [|Videos].

26. [Kyle Murray] [|"A Large-Scale Hierarchical Multi-View RGB-D Object Dataset,"] Kevin Lai, Liefeng Bo, Xiaofeng Ren and Dieter Fox. //IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation//, 2011. ||
 * Tue 22 Nov || **BETA RELEASE REVIEW - ALL TEAMS** ||
 * Thu 24 Nov || **No class, Thanksgiving** ||
 * Tue 29 Nov || **No class, instructor out of town** ||
 * Thu 1 Dec || 27. [Anna Loparev] Luis Von Ahn, [|Games with a purpose], //Computer//, June 2006, Volume: 39 Issue:6, page(s): 92 - 94.

28. [Harry Ledley] [|Predicting protein structures with a multiplayer online game]. Seth Cooper, Firas Khatib, Adrien Treuille, Janos Barbero, Jeehyung Lee, Michael Beenen, Andrew Leaver-Fay, David Baker, Zoran Popović and Foldit players. In //Nature// 466, 756-760 (2010). [|Foldit Project web site].

29. [Chelsea Flint] [|VizWiz: Nearly Real-time Answers to Visual Questions] (2010). Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chandrika Jayant, Hanjie Ji, Greg Little, Andrew Miller, Robert C. Miller, Robin Miller, Aubrey Tatrowicz, Brandyn White, Samuel White and Tom Yeh. In //Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2010)//. New York, New York.

30. [Erin Brady][| Empowering Individuals with Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology], Amy Hurst and Jasmine Tobias. ASSETS 2011. || **PRODUCTION RELEASE presentations & feedback: MAIL BUDDY and PRESENTER**
 * Tue 6 Dec || **Class moved to CSB 628**

Include web site and short business plan: **PRODUCTION RELEASE presentations & feedback: ART and RESTAURANT** || **Final presentations to guest judges** ||
 * Who and how big is your product's potential market?
 * What are some of the other companies (if any) serving the same market?
 * What is your potential annual revenue and profit? ||
 * Thu 8 Dec || **Class moved to CSB 628**
 * Tue 13 Dec || **Class moved to CSB 628**