October 28, 1999 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan Publications

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 […]

October 1, 1999 / Last updated : March 21, 2023 irfan Aware Home

Project: The Aware Home

The Aware Home Is it possible to create a home environment that is aware of its occupants whereabouts and activities? If we build such a home, how can it provide services to its residents that enhance their quality of life or help them to maintain independence as they age? The Aware Home Research Initiative (AHRI) […]

July 14, 1999 / Last updated : March 20, 2023 irfan Publications

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 […]

September 1, 1998 / Last updated : March 20, 2023 irfan Funding

Funding: NSF (1998) Experimental Software Systems "Automated Understanding of Captured Experience"

Award#9806822 – Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience ABSTRACT 9806822 Essa, Irfan A. Abowd, Gregory D. Georgia Institute of Technology Experimental Software Systems: Automated Understanding of Captured Experience The objective of this research is to reduce substantially the human input necessary for creating and accessing large collections of multimedia, particularly multimedia created by […]