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NPUC Talks - Living Laboratories for Ubiquitous Computing

The Future Computing Environments (FCE) Group at Georgia Tech is a collection of faculty and students that share a desire to understand the partnership between humans and technology that arises as computation and sensing become ubiquitous. With expertise covering the breadth of Computer Science, but focusing on HCI, Computational Perception, and Machine Learning, the individual research agendas of the FCE faculty are grounded in a number of shared living laboratories where their research is applied to everyday life in the classroom, the home, the office, and on one's person.

Throughout these investigations, we are exploring many fundamental issues in ubiquitous computing including activity recognition, designing ambient displays, interfaces for managing privacy while sharing information with family and colleagues, modeling daily activities, and handling large amounts of, often ambiguous, sensor data.

Speaker Biography
Elizabeth Mynatt Elizabeth Mynatt
Future Computing Environments Group
Georgia Institute of Technology
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mynatt@cc.gatech.edu

Elizabeth D. Mynatt is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. There she directs the Everyday Computing Laboratory - examining the HCI implications of the continuous presence of computation in everyday life. For office environments, Dr. Mynatt investigates using computers to support people managing multiple tasks, handling interruptions, and sharing information to support informal collaboration. By designing future home technologies, she aims to enable older adults to continue living independently as opposed to moving to an institutional care setting.

Previously she was a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC - the birthplace of ubiquitous computing. There, her research explored how to augment everyday places and objects with computational capabilities. Dr. Mynatt received her Ph.D. in CS from Georgia Tech in 1995.

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