Multimedia Bed
Ted Selker
This project involves providing a traditional bed with multimedia computing capabilities, eye-tracking, and coordination of the electronics with a projection screen mounted above the bed. The system provides the user with an alarm clock that projects a sunrise on the ceiling at the time the user wishes to wake. It allows the user to go to sleep with a star-lit sky projection, or with a constellation game. And if you play the game well past your bedtime, the system may ask you about resetting your alarm to a later time the following morning. It makes reading in bed easier by projecting your book onto the screen, eliminating the need to prop yourself up using your elbows or a pillow.
Context Builder
Shawn Sullivan and Ted Selker
Context Builder is a system designed to allow context aware systems to be built easily and rapidly without requiring any user programming. Through a simple graphical interface, users can design any kind of system which receives input from some sensor or program and classifies that input into states, and possibly also produces some form of output or effect on the environment. Context Builder webpage
Attentive Interation Design Toolkit:
Jackie Lee, John Wetzel and Ted Selker
We present a software toolkit that allows graphic designers to make camera-based interactive environments in a short period of time without experience in user-interface design or machine vision. The Attention Meter, a vision-based input toolkit, gives users an analysis of faces found in a given image stream, including facial expression, body motion, and attentive activities. This data is fed to a text file that can be easily understood by humans and programs alike. Webpage
KitchenSense
Jackie Lee, Leonardo Bonanni, Jose H. Espinosa, Henry Lieberman, and Ted Selker
Networked appliances might make them aware of each other, but interacting with a complex network can be difficult in itself. KitchenSense is a sensor rich networked kitchen research platform that uses CommonSense reasoning to simplify control interfaces and augment interaction. The system’s sensor net attempts to interpret people’s intentions to create fail-soft support for safe, efficient and aesthetic activity. By considering embedded sensor data together with daily-event knowledge a centrally-controlled OpenMind system can develop a shared context across various appliances. The system is a research platform that has is being used to evaluate augmented intelligent support of work scenarios in physical spaces.