Publications
Paper in IEEE Personal Communications (2000) on “Ubiquitous sensing for smart and aware environments”
Abstract As computing technology continues to become increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous, we envision the development of environments that can sense what we are doing and support our daily activities. In this article, we outline our efforts toward building such environments and discuss the importance of a sensing and signal-understanding infrastructure that leads to awareness of […]
Paper (1999) in CoBuild: "The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research"
Cory D. Kidd, Robert Orr, Gregory D. Abowd, Christopher G. Atkeson, Irfan A. Essa, Blair MacIntyre, Elizabeth Mynatt, Thad E. Starner and Wendy Newstetter (1999) “The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research”, In Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations and Architecture , Volume 1670/1999, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISBN: 978-3-540-66596-0. [PDF | DOI | Project Site] Abstract We are building a home, called […]
Paper: AI Magazine (1999) “Computers Seeing People”
Irfan A. Essa “Computers Seeing People”, AI Magazine 20(2): Summer 1999, 69-82 Abstract AI researchers are interested in building intelligent machines that can interact with them as they interact with each other. Science fiction writers have given us these goals in the form of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and Commander Data in Star […]