CS7470 - Ubiquitous Computing

Fall 2004

Thad's office hours:
Tuesday 10 - 12
TSRB Room 241

Random information

Nasa TLX PDFs

Privacy

The Memory Hole
Marc Langheinrich. Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems. PDF

Sample CHI short papers

Tan, Czerwinski. Information Voyeurism: Social Impact of Physically Large Displays on Information Privacy. PDF
Shell, Vertegaal, Skaburskis. EyePliances: Attention-Seeking Devices that Respond to Visual Attention. PDF
Sánchez, Baloian, Hassler, Hoppe. AudioBattleship: Blind Learners Collaboration through Sound. PDF

Project Information

Due dates:

Project 2:
Proposals due Thu, October 28 (worth 5% of total grade)
Progress report November 16
Final presentations final period, Tue Dec 7 from 11:30 to 2:20.
Project 1:
Proposals due Tue, September 14 (worth 5% of total grade)
IRB requests must be in to IRB by Tue, September 14
Presentations on October 7 and 12 (worth 25% of total grade)
(Presentations should be 10 minutes long. A write-up will be due at the same time)

The goal of the projects in this class is to produce a work that is publishable in one of the many forums that accepts ubicomp papers. Select conferences and submission dates are included below.

Class projects, in my opinion, give the student experience in doing research from the perspective of the class. Being able to think about, plan, and analyze work from this perspective is the real goal.

Students are encouraged to work in pairs or singly. I am open to larger teams if you can make an argument why it is needed. Yes, your project can be related to your research IF you can argue (successfully) to me why your project belongs in the field of ubiquitous computing. However, I encourage you to use this class as an excuse to explore new types of research.

Project Swiki

We now have a project swiki. Soon project ideas will be put up here. Feel free to add your own if you have a good idea. You are also encouraged to use this space to collaborate on your projects.

Readings

Required readings:

Date	Everyone	Discussion Leaders
Tue 11/23	Ames, Bettadapur, Dey, Mankoff. Healthy Cities Ambient Displays. PDF Wisneski, Ishii, et. al. Ambient Displays: Turning Architectural Space into an Interface between People and Digital Information. PDF Mankoff, Dey, et. al. Heuristic Evaluation of Ambient Displays. PDF	Ames, Bettadapur, Dey, Mankoff. Healthy Cities Ambient Displays. PDF Wisneski, Ishii, et. al. Ambient Displays: Turning Architectural Space into an Interface between People and Digital Information. PDF Mankoff, Dey, et. al. Heuristic Evaluation of Ambient Displays. PDF
Thu 11/18
Tue 11/16	Uderkoffler, Ullmer and Ishii. Emancipated Pixels: Real-World Graphics in the Luminous Room. PDF Ullmer and Ishii. The metaDESK: Models and Prototypes for Tangible User Interfaces. PDF DiVerdi, Hoellerer, Schreyer. Level of Detail Interfaces. PDF Kameda, Takemasa, Ohta. Outdoor See-Through Vision Utilizing Surveillance Cameras. PDF	Ishii, Ratti, Piper, Wang, Biderman, Ben-Joseph. Bringing clay and sand into digital design - continuous tangible user interfaces. PDF Underkoffler and Ishii. Illuminating Light: An Optical Design Tool with a Luminous-Tangible Interface. PDF Greenberg and Fitchet. Phidgets: Easy Development of Physical Interfaces through Physical Widgets. PDF Ryokai, Marti, Ishii. I/O Brush: Drawing with Everyday Objects as Ink. PDF Ishii. Bottles: A Transparent Interface as a Tribute to Mark Weiser. PDF Bane, Hoeller. Interactive Tools for Virtual X-Ray Vision in Mobile Augmented Reality. PDF Moehring, Lessig, Bimber. Video See-Through AR on Consumer Cell-Phones. PDF Kameda, Takemasa, Ohta. Outdoor See-Through Vision Utilizing Surveillance Cameras. PDF
Thu 11/11	Ian Smith from Intel's PlaceLab	Ian Smith from Intel's PlaceLab
Tue 11/2	Palen, Leysia et al. Going Wireless: Behavior and Practice of New Mobile Phone Users PDF Grinter, Beki. Wan2tlk?: Everyday Text Messaging PDF Strom, Georg. The Telephone Comes to a Filipino Village. PDF	Ito, Mizuko. Mobile Phones, Japanese Youth, and the Re-Placement of Social Contact. PDF Varbanov, Valtentin. Bulgaria: Mobile Phones as Post-Communist Cultural Icons. PDF
Tue 10/26	Hightower, Borriello. Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing. PDF Bjoerk, Falk. Pirates! Using the Physical World as a Game Board. PDF	Ashbrook, Starner. Using GPS to Learn Significant Locations and Predict Movement Across Multiple Users. PDF
Tue 10/12	Project presentations round 2
Thu 10/7	Project presentations round 1
Thu 9/30	R. Stein. Development of a Commercially Successful Wearable Data Collection System. PDF	Gemperle. Design for Wearability. PDF Bodine. Effects of functionality on perceived comfort of wearables. PDF
Tue 9/28	R. Stein. Development of a Commercially Successful Wearable Data Collection System. PDF	Gemperle. Design for Wearability. PDF Bodine. Effects of functionality on perceived comfort of wearables. PDF
Thu 9/23	Mike Johnson. Physical limits of portable power storage. Draft internal tech report. MIT Media Lab (not for public consumption). PDF	Thad Starner. Heat Dissipation in Wearable Computers. PDF
Tue 9/21	Thad Starner. Human-powered wearable computing. IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3&4, 1996 MIT Media Lab. PDF
Tue 9/14	Human Factors Associated with HMDs: CH2 of Helmet-Mounted Displays and Sights, by Mordekhai Velger. PDF (big!) How LCDs work, from HowStuffWorks.com (local, ad-free copy) How plasma displays work, from HowStuffWorks.com (local, ad-free copy) How projection displays work, from HowStuffWorks.com (local, ad-free copy)	Design Issues in Human Performance-Based Test and Evaluation of HMDs: CH11 of Head Mounted Displays PDF (big!) Various parts of Tactical Display for Soldiers TXT
Thu 9/2	MacKenzie and Soukoreff. Text entry for mobile computing: Models and methods, theory and practice. Human-Computer Interaction, 17, 147-198. HTML version Kent Lyons, Daniel Plaisted, and Thad Starner. Expert Chording Text Entry on the Twiddler One-Handed Keyboard. PDF	Soukoreff (2002). Text entry for mobile systems: Models, measures, and analyses for text entry research, M.Sc. Thesis (York University) PDF Kent Lyons et. al. Twiddler Typing: One-Handed Chording Text Entry for Mobile Phones. PDF Also see other keyboard research by MacKenzie and Soukoreff: http://dynamicnetservices.com/~will/academic/ http://www.yorku.ca/mack/#p
Tue 8/31	M. Satyanarayanan. Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges. Pervasive Computing Magazine, August 2001. PDF version Thad Starner. The Challenges of Wearable Computing. Part 1 PDF, Part 2 PDF.	Beki Grinter and Keith Edwards. At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges. PDF
Thu 8/26	Vernor Vinge. Synthetic Serendipity HTML version
Tue 8/24	Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. HTML version J.C.R. Licklider. Man-Computer Symbiosis. IRE Transactions of Human Factors in Electronics, Volume HFE-1, pp. 4-11, March 1960. PDF version, pages 1-20 only. Mark Weiser. The Computer for the 21st Century, Scientific American, September 1991, pp. 94-104. HTML draft available from www.ubiq.com.	Douglas Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Stanford Research Institute, October 1962. HTML version. This is LONG, but parts are worth perusing. Sun Microsystems. Profile: Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and VP of Sun Microsystems. Focus attention on sections about Sketchpad and Virtual Reality Howard Rheingold. Tools for Thought. Simon & Schuster, 1985. HTML version of entire text. Of particular interest are chapters 7, 9, 11, and 12. The Invention of the First Wearable Computer. E.O. Thorp

Bonus, non-required readings:

Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold. Amazon link, weblog
Ask Not for Whom the Cell Phone Tolls: Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing. Thomas Erickson. IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. HTML version
Distraction, Bruce Sterling. Amazon link
Vernor Vinge's Singularity paper HTML
M. Satyanarayanan. Fundamental Challenges in Mobile Computing. Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, 1996. PDF version

Homework 1 - IRB certification
Due Tuesday, August 24

For doing experiments in this class, you must be IRB certified and do a IRB application for your project. Below are instructions (taken from CS4750) for getting appropriate CITI (Collaborative IRB Training Initiative) certification.

Instructions for submitting results/verification to Georgia Tech:

Read the CITI training instructions.
Go to the CITI website and choose to Register for the CITI Course.
Under Other, choose Georgia Tech as your institution. Choose your username and password and enter all of your information. Use your GT ID # as your Employee #.
Choose Group 2 - Social/Behavioral.
Choose the Basic Course and complete all of the modules.
After completing all the modules, your completion report will be submitted to the IRB. Please check that it has been updated in their system within 48 hours by logging in at https://webwise.gtri.gatech.edu/irb/loginpage. Also, print the page that is displayed from the web site (completion report)

You must turn in printed proof of your CITI training on the due date for this assignment.

Contact Information:

Daniel Ashbrook
anjiro (at) cc.gatech.edu