The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research

Kidd, Cory D.; Orr, R. J.; Abowd, Gregory D.; Atkeson, Christopher G.; Essa, Irfan; MacIntyre, Blair; Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Starner﻿﻿, Thad; Newstetter, Wendy C.

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“…In this new genre of ubiquitous computing, researchers suggest that the home can be augmented by making it more connected to other places, and more aware of its inhabitants [5,9,11]. The home can somehow display information so that people can access it anytime and anywhere.…”

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Elliot

Neustaedter

Greenberg

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Our goal in this paper is to clearly delineate how households currently manage communication and coordination information; this will provide practitioners and designers with a more complete view of information in the home, and how technology embedded within the home can augment communication and coordination of home inhabitants. Through contextual interviews, we identify five types of communicative information: reminders and alerts, awareness and scheduling, notices, visual displays, and resource coordination. These information types are created and understood by home inhabitants as a function of contextual locations within the home.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Elliot

Neustaedter

Greenberg

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…The notion of a smart home, aware home, or green home has been explored at places like Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech [2], Stanford, Florida, and Duke, toward incorporating environmentally friendly initiatives and techniques into the built environment. Often computing technology plays a key role in monitoring the information generated by these homes and in controlling certain aspects of the home.…”

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Mobile Interfaces for Better Living: Supporting Awareness in a Smart Home Environment

Gračanin

McCrickard

Billingsley

et al. 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper describes efforts toward creating an integrated living space to support heightened awareness of a user's environment. The work seeks to balance the needs and desires of an individual with those of other people within the locality, community, and world, to include basic comforts like temperature and humidity of a living environment as well as use of resources like power and water. The use of mobile technologies-already prominent among many populations-can be used to raise awareness of the needs and responsibilities of the individual and can highlight opportunities to live in ways that are friendlier to others. Mobile technologies have great promise in connecting users to their environment, and a smart environment enhanced with technology that supports better living can improve the lives of individuals, groups, and the broader community. The goals of this work are toward encouraging: 1) increased awareness of information in the user's surroundings; 2) integrated control over factors in one's surrounding and home environments; and 3) increased ability to support sustainable living for both individuals and groups. This work builds on the many smart, green, and sustainable living environment initiatives that have emerged in recent years.

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“…The Aware Home project (Kidd, et al 1999) is taking the step of building an actual house, designed from the outset to accommodate technologies, technology trials and studies of technologies in use. Their eventual goal is to have people actually live in part of the house and have sustained experience with technology prototypes.…”

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The Importance of Homes in Technology Research

Hindus¹

1999

Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture

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Abstract. This paper argues for the importance of home-related research on technology. Several important differences between researching homes and researching workplaces are described, and several issues in conducting homerelated research are discussed in the context of specific research efforts. Ways to advance home-related research as a discipline are presented, including an existing course on technology design with a home focus.

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The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research

Cited by 722 publications

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Mobile Interfaces for Better Living: Supporting Awareness in a Smart Home Environment

The Importance of Homes in Technology Research

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