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Ubiquitous Computing Research Group

We are interested in ubiquitous computing and the research issues involved in building and evaluating ubicomp applications and services that impact our lives. Much of our work is situated in settings of everyday activity, such as the classroom, the office and the home. Our research focuses on several topics:
  • Automated capture and access to live experiences
  • Context-aware computing
  • Applications and services in the home
  • Natural interaction
  • Software architecture
  • Technology policy, security and privacy issues
  • Technology for individuals with special needs

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Ubicomp Group Ph.D. Students (Past and Present):
Front Row (L to R): Gregory Abowd, Shwetak Patel
Middle Row (L to R): Giovanni Iachello, Erich Stuntebeck, Gillian Hayes, Tracy Westeyn, Kris Nagel, Anind Dey, Jen Mankoff, Julie Kientz, Zhigang Hua, Jay Summet, Mario Romero
Back Row (L to R): Brian Landry

Recent News:

5 June 2008 - News

Congratulations to Julie Kientz and Shwetak Patel for passing Ph.D. defenses! They are set to graduate in this summer.

21 May 2008 - News

Congratulations to Shwetak Patel for winning a Best Paper Award at the Pervasive Computing 2008.

The winning paper was:

Shwetak Patel, Matt Reynolds, and Gregory Abowd. Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing. In the Proceedings of Pervasive 2008. Sydney, Australia. 2008.

3 May 2008 - News

Congratulations to Sunyoung Kim who graduated with her Master's Degree in Human-Computer Interaction today! Sunyoung is an intern at Intel Research this summer and will be starting as a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University's HCI Institute in the fall. Best wishes, Sunyoung!

8 April 2008 - News

Congratulations to our fearless leader, Gregory Abowd, for receiving two more honorable distinctions this year. At CHI 2008, he was named to the prestigious CHI Academy, which consists of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the field of HCI. In addition, Gregory has received the Georgia Tech Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor award, for his success in graduating a number of Ph.D. students throughout his career.

In honor of Gregory's success and his inspiration as a wonderful mentor, his current and former students wore bracelets at CHI that bore the phrase "What Would Gregory Do?" to remind us of our advisor and aim to give us insight into how to handle difficult situations.

Congrats again to Gregory. We're proud of you!

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We are affiliated with the following organizations and labs:

Aware Home
Future Computing Environments



Last modified 25 June 2008 at 8:37 pm by Julie Kientz