Monthly Archives: February 2011

Creating Magic

Clarke’s Three Laws by the British writer and scientist Arthur C. Clarke. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong. The only … Continue reading

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VL/HCC 2011

  Please see the RFP from VL/HCC 2011 – http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011/ then there is also the Graduate Symposium VL/HCC 2011 Graduate Symposium Expanding end user control in socio-technical systems ========================================== Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and … Continue reading

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Dare to be Digital

The Dare to be Digital games competition:  http://www.daretobedigital.com/ This is a video games development competition for students. Teams of five students get to go to Abertay University (Dundee, Scotland) for 9 weeks in the summer to build a game, alongside … Continue reading

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ScanDiet: Introductory Video

Team Members:Chihwen Cheng, Wei-Ru Lay, Christine Wu ScanDiet is a smart barcode scanning system for diet management. It utilizes Georgia Tech’s Aware Home technologies to encourage users to eat healthier by providing them with access to aggregated data about their … Continue reading

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Social Lightbulb

Group Members: April Tann, Keith Smith, Rachel Dickey Our proposal is for a new facade system for the aware home which utilizes the RFID and/or motion sensors in the home to control LED lights located on 10th street facing facade. … Continue reading

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Durrell Bishop’s Marble Answering Machine

http://vimeo.com/19930744 The Marble Answering Machine (by Durrell Bishop, student at the Royal College of Art, 1992) is a prototype telephone answering machine. Incoming voice messages are represented by marbles, the user can grasp and then drop to play the message or … Continue reading

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Warning Signs of Stroke

Either notice the FAST – Face, Arms, Smile, Time http://www.stroke.org/site/PageServer?pagename=symp Or the new sign – STR – Smile, Talk, Raise the arms, and Stick out tongues http://adrianhoe.com/adrianhoe/2007/10/23/new-sign-of-stroke/ Here is one comment on it http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/stroke.asp

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Gregory’s project ideas

Last week at the Aware Home presentation I brainstormed a number of ideas that I thought might make for a happier, healthier home. My first idea promotes sustainability by encouraging reduced water usage. My second idea falls under the category … Continue reading

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Big Shadow

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The Kitchen of Tomorrow is calling me

Design for Dreaming No need for the bride to feel tragic. The rest is pushbutton magic! Tick, tock, tick, tock! I’m free to have fun around the clock! The kitchen of tomorrow is calling me!

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