CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:30-1:50 · Gates B01 · Open to the public- 20 years of speakers
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February 2, 2006 The work of medical researchers, scientists, architects, designers, and marketeers
frequently involves collecting and analyzing the detailed activity data gathered
from the everyday lives of test subjects.
Firefly Labs is developing a system of hardware and software to automatically sense and gather human activity data. Fireflies are small (64 x 36 x 18 mm) battery powered wireless sensors, explicitly designed from the ground up for behavioral sensing applications. A set of Fireflies can be deployed in a few minutes. They can be put in a pocket, attached to things, or put in places. The data they collaborate to produce can be used in real-time to spot situations of interest, or concern, or compiled into a human understandable biography. Compared with manual techniques, our sensing system can gather more consistent data, over longer periods (24x7), without interruption or intervention, resulting in higher quality data and lower total cost. One of the applications we are investigating is elderly care, and there are many others. |
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