Chris Harrison (CMU) - Truly Responsive Environments

Truly Responsive Environments

Truly smart and responsive environments rely on the ability to detect physical events and social context, such as appliance use and human activities. Currently, to sense these types of events, one must either upgrade to “smart” appliances or attach aftermarket sensors to existing objects and infrastructure. These approaches are expensive, intrusive and inflexible. Furthermore, even “smart” appliances are often very dumb – a smart speaker sitting on a kitchen countertop cannot figure out if it is in a kitchen, let alone know what a user is doing in a kitchen. In my talk, I will review my lab’s efforts over the past few years to bring the promise of smart environments much closer to reality.

How to watch

Livestream on Youtube (no login required, no Zoom required): https://youtu.be/3fmN2PoXbOQ

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This talk is part of the Department of Computer Science Fall seminar series on human-computer interaction. Future talks:

10/12: Anind Dey, University of Washington

10/26: Karrie Karahalios, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11/5: Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell Tech

11/9: Amy Ogan, Carnegie Mellon University

11/30: Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab

More information on these speakers and their talks will be posted soon.

Host: Pedro Lopes