The Aware Home

A new living research lab

Gregory D. Abowd

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What and Why

$500,000 from State of GeorgiaJoint project

Broadband Telecommunications Center GT Wireless Institute College of Computing Electrical and Computer Engineering GVU Center

A living laboratory for research

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Who in GVU?

Future Computing Environments Group

Abowd, Atkeson, Essa, MacIntyre, Mynatt, Starner

The makers of

and other interesting projects

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Plans

South East

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Basement

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Living floors (2)

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The construction site

A quarter mile from theFuture Computing Lab

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In the meantime ...

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Research Objectives

Build and understand a living

laboratory in an everyday setting

that is aware of its occupants

activities and supports the

continuous connection of a small

community.

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Research themes

Human-centered elderly as if you were there human-home symbiosis

Technology-centered context-aware secure distributed systems heterogeneous networks

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Industry collaboration

We have some specific interest BellSouth, Sun Microsystems, Motorola,

Lutron Your company?

Objective guidance to direct our efforts for

maximum long-term benefit with short-term results