AI-week1-Introduction lecture notes .ppt

AI-week1-Introduction lecture notes .ppt

1. MAS 963 -Ambient Intelligence
Pattie Maes
[email protected]
TA: David Bouchard
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2. Ambient Intelligence: Vision
Ambient Intelligence envisions a world where people
are surrounded by intelligent and intuitive interfaces
embedded in the everyday objects & physical
environments around them. These interfaces
recognize and respond to the presence and
behaviors of an individual in a personalized and
relevant way.

3. Ubiquitous Computing
Intelligent Interfaces
Context-aware Computing
Merging of different bodies of work

4. Example Scenarios (1)
Ambient semantics (H. Liu)
“enriching your every day experience”
Book tells you about friends/famous people that read/loved
it
Book tells you about particularly interesting passages
Touching 2 books makes their connections appear

5. Example Scenarios (2)
Objects with memory
Objects that act as medium for messaging
Objects that can tell you their relevant stories/history
Eg. Readwear/writewear

6. Example Scenarios (3)
Augmented physical environments
Walking around town, system points out buildings/places of
particular interest to a user (based on user’s interests)
Books on a bookshelf can “speak out”to you (or posters in
infinite corridor)

7. Vision (continued)
Ambient Intelligence Technology is:
“Invisible”(Weiser):
Use/functions are immediately apparent
Ubiquitous:
Available anywhere, integrated in physical environment
& objects around us
Intelligent:
Relevant to user & context-aware
Unobtrusive
Providing meaning (vs. knowledge vs. information)

8. Vision (continued)
Radically rethink the human-computer interactive
experience:
Integrate digital world (information & services) and physical
world (physical objects/environment)
Make interfaces more responsive and proactive (objects &
environment monitor user and (proactively) present
information & services relevant to user’s current
needs/interests)

9. Challenges
Augment objects/environments with sensing,
computing & networking capability
Sense & model the user’s behavior (offline/online)
Infer the user’s current interests/intentions
Design (proactive) interfaces that offer value without
being obnoxious, while being highly relevant
Integrate these interfaces in user’s physical
environment in seamless, natural way:
On the body: cell phones, wearables
In the environment: architecture, ether, objects

10. Goals for this Course
Provide an overview of this new vision for HCI
Read and discuss the most relevant articles in related areas:
Smart Environments, Smart Networked Objects, Augmented
Reality, Mixed Reality, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive
Computing, Tangible Computing, Ambient Interfaces, Intelligent
Interfaces, Context-based Systems, Personalization,
Awareness systems, Wearable Computing, Smart materials.
Focus on understanding enabling technologiesand studying
applicationsand experiments. To a lesser extend address the
social-cultural impact.
Come up with new ideas, start innovative projects in this area

11. How does this class differ from related
Media Lab classes?
Hiroshi Ishii’s “Tangible Interfaces”
Giving physical form to digital information so that it
becomes more easily manipulable and perceivable
Joe Paradiso’s “Sensor Technologies for Interactive
Environments”
Focus on sensor technologies (& performance/events)
Ted Selker’s “, Context-Aware Computing”
Focus on context-aware systems in general (desktop as
well as ubiquitous systems)

12. Requirements for the students
Students are required to participate extensively in
literature research and class discussions
Read required readings ahead of class & prepare ½page of
questions & interesting points for discussion
Review & present at least one topic in class
Write 2 short “scenarios”papers (by 2/15 & 2/22)
Suggest additional papers to read
Suggest experiments & technologies to look at
Students are required to design and implement an
original project in this area and describe their
project in a 3-page paper as well as make 2
presentation to the class
4/19 update & class discussion
5/17 final presentation & report

13. Schedule
Feb 8 Class #1 Introduction to Ambient Intelligence
(focus on Media Lab work)
-Pattie Maes
FORMS DUE
Feb 15 Class #2 Future visions of HCI
-Pattie Maes
APPLICATION SCENARIOS PAPER DUE
Feb 22 Class #3 Common Sense & Intelligent Interfaces
-Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu & Push Singh
VISION SCENARIOS PAPER DUE
Mar 1 Class #4 Location Based & Context-Aware Systems
-Pattie Maes & students

14. Schedule (continued)
Mar 8 Class #5 Ubiquitous Computing
-Pattie Maes & students
PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE
Mar 15 Class #6 User Modeling, Personalization &
Recommender Systems
Discussion of project proposals
-Pattie Maes & students
Mar 22Class #7 Tangible & Ambient Interfaces
-Pattie Maes & students
Mar 29 No Class (Spring Vacation)
Yellow means requirements for students

15. Schedule (continued)
Apr 5 Class #8 Augmented Reality/Mixed Realities
-Pattie Maes & students
Apr 12 Class #9 The meaning of Things
-Invited Speaker Judith Donath
Urban perspective
-Invited speaker Federico
Apr 19 Class #10 Intelligent Environments
-Pattie Maes & students
Project update discussion
PROJECT UPDATE DUE (1 page)
Apr 26 Class #11 Embedded Intelligence/Smart Objects
-Pattie Maes & students

16. Schedule (continued)
May 3 Class #12 Pervasive Computing & Wearables
-Pattie Maes & students
May 10 Class #13 Awareness systems
-Pattie Maes & students
May 17 Class #14 PROJECT PRESENTATION &
FINAL PROJECT REPORT DUE
Yellow means requirements for students

17. Reading List
Intro to Ambient Intelligence:
Ambient Intelligence, Fraunhofer Institute
http://www.iuk.fhg.de/embedded_systems_eng.html
Ambient Intelligence in Home Lab, Philips Research
http://www.research.philips.com/Assets/Downloadablefile/ambientintelligence-2456.pdf
Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010
Ambient Intelligence, Weber et al editors
(Concept videos)

18. Reading List (continued)
Location-based & Context-aware systems:
Special issue on Context-Aware Computing, IEEE Pervasive
Computing, 2002 ***
Context-based city & museum tour guides (Abowd,
Cheverst, Reinhard, Petrelli) ***
“Ubiquitous Systems in Interactive Museums”, Fleck et. Al.
IEEE Pervasive Computing***
Reminder systems (Rhodes, Pentland & Devaul,
Lamming...)***
“Virtual Graffiti" systems (Geonotes, HangingMessages,
Ether Threads) ***

19. Reading List (continued)
Interfaces with Common Sense, Intelligent
Interfaces:
Beating some Common Sense into Interactive Applications,
Lieberman et. Al. http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Common-
Sense/Common-Sense-Intro.html
Selected readings on Interfaces with Common Sense
(Lieberman)
Selected readings from IUI Proceedings

20. Reading List (continued)
Ubiquitous Computing:
papers by M. Weiser
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UIST94_4up.ps.
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/ACMInteractions2.html
http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiCompHotTopics.html
"Open House", Weiser M., 1996***
"Designing Calm Technology", M. Weiser and J. Seely
Brownhttp://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/acmfuture2endnote.htm***
“The Human Experience”, Abowd, IEEE Pervasive
Computing ***
“Slow Technology”, Hallnas & Redstrom,
http://civ.idc.cs.chalmers.se/projects/slowtech/papers/slowtech.pdf***
"Ambient Agoras" project, www.AmbientAgoras.org,
Fraunhofer Institute ***
Selected papers from proceedings of Ubicomp 2001, 2002,
2003 ***

21. Reading List (continued)
User Modeling, Personalization & Recommender
Systems:
Recommender Systems by Ungar
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ungar/CF/
Empirical Analysis of Predictive Algorithms for
Collaborative Filtering
http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/breese/cfalgs.html
Recommender Systems by Resnick & Varian
http://www.acm.org/pubs/cacm/MAR97/resnick.html
(work by Intille et al)

22. Reading List
Tangible Interfaces:
"Tangible Bits", Ishii H., CHI97
http://tangible.media.mit.edu/papers/Tangible_Bits_CHI97/Tangible_Bits_CHI97.pdf
other papers by Ishii et. al.
Ambient Interfaces:
“Ambient Interfaces: Design Challenges and
Recommendations”, Fraunhofer Institute http://www.uni-
weimar.de/~gross/publ/hcii03_gross_amb_int.pdf
papers by H. Ishii

23. Reading List (continued)
The Meaning of Things:
"The meaning of Things", Csikszentmihalyi
"The Cultural Biography of Things", I. Kopytov
"Culture and Consumption", "Mc Gracken, G
"The Social Life of Things" Apadurai, A.
e-lens and the digital city
TBD

24. Reading List (continued)
Augmented Reality/Mixed Realities :
Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing, Steven
K. Feiner, 2002
Introduction to Augmented Reality by J. Vallino
http://www.cs.rochester.edu:80/u/vallino/research/AR/introduction.html
Presence Journal special issue on AR, 1997
CACM Special issue on AR, 1993, Vol 36, #7
Animated & Electronic Paper Experiments (e.g.
Wellner)

25. Reading List (continued)
Intelligent Environments :
Concept Homes
http://www.research.philips.com/Assets/Downloadablefile/ambientintelligence-2456.pdf
Selected papers from “Intelligent Environments”, P. Froege
Papers on Georgia Tech “Aware Home”
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri/projects/index.html
Papers on MIT Media Lab Smart Room experiments
http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/smartroom/
Papers of MIT AI-lab Smart Room experiments
http://oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/and http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/aire/
Papers on Stanford iRoom http://iwork.stanford.edu
Papers on MIT’s House-N

26. Reading List (continued)
Embedded Intelligence/Smart Objects :
Tutorial on RFID technology
Objects with embedded sensors, computation, &
networking
Sensor & Actuator Networks, Special Issue of IEEE
Pervasive Computing, Oct 2003
Mobility, Service Discovery, Auto Configuration and Ad-Hoc
Networking
Disappearing Hardware, R. Want et. Al. IEEE Pervasive
Computing

27. Reading List (continued)
Pervasive Computing and Wearables :
Pervasive Computing Handbook, U. Hansmann
Me++, W. Mitchell
Papers from IEEE pervasive computing journal
Wearable Computing Papers, MIT, CMU, UNC, Sony CSL
Proceedings of the wearables conferences

28. To Do’s
By tomorrow: return class form
By next week (2/15):
Check out class website
Read required 2 readings and prepare ½
page questions & comments, email to
pattie@ by 10am on Wed and put on wiki
Write application scenarios paper (1 or 2
pages)

29. Required Readings
That’s what friends are for: Ambient Intelligence and the Information
Society of 2010 by Ducatel et.al.
http://www.itas.fzk.de/e-
society/preprints/esociety/Ducatel%20et%20al.pdf
Social, Economic and ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and
Ubiquitous Computing by Bohn et.al.
http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/socialambient.pdf
Optional: Philips Password magazine, special issue on Ambient
Intelligence
http://www.research.philips.com/password/archive/23/downloads/pass
word23.pdf

30. Application Scenarios Paper
Envision novel applications of some of the
following platforms:
-Invisible Media gaze direction platform
-Reachmedia RFID wristband
-Augmented Mirror
-Moving Portraits
-I/O textiles
-Ambient glasses & EMG
-Dtouch printable visual markers

31. Practical Information
Contact [email protected], x3-7442,
room E15-315 or [email protected]
any questions
Website:
http://courses.media.mit.edu/2006spring/mas
963/
Mailing list [email protected]
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