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BTC’s Experimental Home

BTC’s Experimental Home. An aware environment to connect people Gregory D. Abowd. Outline. Progress report on home Research objectives living laboratory aware environment constantly connected community Overview of research themes human-centered technology-centered. Progress report.

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BTC’s Experimental Home

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  1. BTC’s Experimental Home An aware environment to connect people Gregory D. Abowd BTC Experimental Home

  2. Outline • Progress report on home • Research objectives • living laboratory • aware environment • constantly connected community • Overview of research themes • human-centered • technology-centered BTC Experimental Home

  3. Progress report • Ground breaking imminent • Occupancy by Jan. 2000 • Prototype room in CRB BTC Experimental Home

  4. Outside BTC Experimental Home

  5. Basement BTC Experimental Home

  6. Living floors (2) BTC Experimental Home

  7. Prototype room (CRB) BTC Experimental Home

  8. 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. BTC Experimental Home

  9. Why a living laboratory? • It is not sufficient to achieve technological breakthroughs. • Greater contribution lies in the understanding of impact on everyday life. BTC Experimental Home

  10. Living laboratory experience • Classroom 2000 (education) • Dual purpose house will facilitate experimentation as well. • Expect another dwelling to come. BTC Experimental Home

  11. An aware home • Questions to answer • who • where • what • Opportunities this provides • human-home symbiosis BTC Experimental Home

  12. Continuous connection • How can we obtain ubiquitous and continuous connection? • testbed for technologies • How does this change life? • information at fingertips • support human communication • build community • unite over distance BTC Experimental Home

  13. Research themes • Human-centered • Technology-centered BTC Experimental Home

  14. Human-centered research • Specific themes • Elderly home care/ assistive healthcare • prolong independence in familiar surroundings • understand rhythms, patterns, deviations • provide contact • As if you were there scenarios • remote repair visit • remote collaboration BTC Experimental Home

  15. Human-centered research • General themes • Evaluating connectivity impact on • (extended) family life • life-long learning • security, privacy • Human-Home symbiosis • on-body/off-body networks • facilitate collection of first person perspective on home BTC Experimental Home

  16. Finding other stories • What home activities are • desirable • can be improved through technology • This is a hard qualitative question for everyday computing BTC Experimental Home

  17. Technology-centered themes • Context-aware computing • Distributed and secure computing • Networking • fast, rapidly deployed wireline and wireless within the home • broadband to the home BTC Experimental Home

  18. More technology research • Today’s agenda will address these BTC Experimental Home

  19. Industry collaboration • We have some specific interest • BellSouth • Sun Microsystems • Motorola • Others? • Objective • guidance to direct our efforts with maximum long-term benefit with short-term results BTC Experimental Home

  20. Advice? • How do you want to be involved? • Suggest applications of interest • Technologies of importance • Cross fertilization through personnel exchange • student interns • industry interns BTC Experimental Home

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