Readings | Ambient Intelligence | Media Arts and Sciences

Course readings.
WEEK #	TOPICS	READINGS
1	Introduction to Ambient Intelligence Prof. Patricia Maes
2	Intelligence Augmentation and Software Agents Prof. Patricia Maes	Required Maes, P., and B. Schneiderman. "Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents: a Debate." Interactions 4, no. 6 (1997). ACM Press. Direct Manipulation (PDF) The Wearable Remembrance Agent: A system for Augmented Memory, Rhodes Optional Ambient Intelligence in Home Lab, Philips Research (PDF)
3	Location Based and Context-Aware Systems Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Chen, and Kotz. A Survey of Context-Aware Mobile Computing Research. Want, et al. Context-Aware Computing Applications. Optional Oppermann, et al. "Hippie: A Nomadic Information System." In Proceedings of the 1st International symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. London, UK: Springer-Verlag, 1999. ISBN: 9783540665502. Abowd, Gregory D., et al. Cyberguide: Prototyping Context Aware Mobile Applications. Cheverst, K., N. Davies, K. Mitchell, and A. Friday. "Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project." In MOBICOM 2000: Proceedings of the sixth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking. Boston, MA: ACM Press, 2000, pp. 20-31. Virtual Graffiti Systems / Location Based Messaging: Chang, Emily. Hanging Messages: Using Context-Enhanced Messages for Just-In-Time Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT M.E. Thesis, 2001. Marmasse, Natalia. comMotion: a context-aware communication system. Extended abstract in Proceedings of CHI'99 (1999). Lassey, Bradford. Etherthreads: An Infrastructure for Location-based Messages. Cambridge, MA: MIT Thesis, 2004. Pan, Pengkai. Mobile Cinema. Cambridge, MA: MIT Thesis, 2004. Persson, et al. Geonotes. UCSD ActiveCampus Memory systems Lamming, M. "'Forget-me-not': Intimate Computing in Support of Human Memory." In Proceedings FRIEND21 Symposium on Next Generation Human Interfaces (1994).
4	Interfaces with Common Sense Invited speakers: Hugo Liu, Pushpinder Singh and Pallavi Kaushik	Required Lane, Giles. "Urban Tapestries: Wireless Networking, Public Authoring and Social Knowledge." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (July 2003). Lieberman, et al. Beating some Common Sense into Interactive Applications, MIT Media Lab. (PDF) Optional Lieberman. Selected readings on Interfaces with Common Sense. Selected readings from IUI Proceedings.
5	Ubiquitous Computing Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Weiser. Ubiquitous Computing. ———. Perspectives Article for ACM Interactions. 1993. Weiser, and Seely Brown. The Coming Age of Calm Technology. 1996. Optional Weiser. Some Computer Science Issues in Ubiquitous Computing. 1993. Abowd, G. D., and E. D. Mynatt. Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing. 2000. (PDF) Selection from UbiComp Proceedings last 5 years.
6	User Modeling, Personalization and Recommender Systems Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Kobsa, Alfred. Generic User Modeling Systems, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 11, no. 1-2 (2001): 49-63.
7	Tangible and Ambient Interfaces Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Ishii, and Ullmer. "Tangible Bits." CHI97. (PDF) Optional Selected papers by H. Ishii. Hallnas, and Redstrom. "Slow Technology." "Special Issue on Tangible Computing." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal 8, no. 5. "Ambient Interfaces: Design Challenges and Recommendations." Fraunhofer Institute (PDF - 1.5MB) Cohen, and McGee. "Tangible multimodal interfaces for safety-critical applications." Communications of the ACM 47, no. 1 (2004): 42-46. Sommerer, and Laurent Mignonneau. Mobile Feelings.
8	Augmented Reality/Mixed Realities Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Feiner, Steven K. "Augmented Reality: A New Way of Seeing." Scientific American, April 2002. Optional Vallino, J. Introduction to Augmented Reality. Designing Interactive Paper (PDF) Presence Journal special issue on AR, 1997. Wellner, P. "The DigitalDesk Calculator: Tangible Manipulation on a Desk Top Display." Proceedings of UIST '91 (1991): 27-33. Leibe, Bastian, and Thad Starner. The Perceptive Workbench: Toward Spontaneous and Natural Interaction in SemiImmersive Virtual Environments. 2000. (PDF) Nakanishi, et al. EnhancedDesk and EnhancedWall: Augmented Desk and Wall Interfaces. (PDF) Johnson, W., H. Jellinek, L. Klotz, and S. Card. "Bridging the Paper and Electronic Worlds: The Paper User Interface." Proceedings of INTERCHI'93 (1993): 507-512. (PDF) "Listen Reader." An Electronically Augmented Paper-based Book. (PDF - 1.1MB)
9	The Meaning of Things Invited Speaker: Judith Donath	Required Csikszentmihalyi. The Meaning of Things. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981. ISBN: 9780521287746. Kopytoff, I. "The Cultural Biography of Things: Commodification as Process." In The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Edited by Arjun Appadurai. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780521357265. Mc Gracken, G. Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780253206282. Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780521357265.
10	Embedded Intelligence/Smart Objects Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Optional 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 Want, R., et al. "Disappearing Hardware." IEEE Pervasive Computing. Baurley. "Interactive and Experiential Design in Smart Textile Products and Applications." Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (July 2004). Stead1, Lisa. "The Emotional Wardrobe." Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (July 2004). Mavrommati1, Irene, and Achilles Kameas. "The Evolution of Objects Into Hyper-Objects: Will It Be Mostly Harmless?" Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (July 2003).
11	Intelligent Environments Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Optional Georgia Tech Aware Home Project Stanford iRoom Project MIT Media Lab smart rooms project: Pentland, Alex. "Smart Rooms." Scientific American, no. 274. Philips Home Lab Project
12	Pervasive Computing and Wearables Prof. Patricia Maes and Students	Required Merk, Lothar, et al., eds. Pervasive Computing Handbook. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag Telos, 2001. ISBN: 9783540671220. Mitchell, W. Me++. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262134347. Papers from IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal: search for any wearable computing papers. Optional "Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing." IEEE Pervasive Computing (2002). Abowd, Cheverst, Reinhard, and Petrelli. Context-based City & Museum Tour Guides. (Unpublished.) Rhodes, et al. Reminder Systems. (Unpublished.) Explore "Virtual Graffiti" systems (Geonotes, HangingMessages, Ether Threads).