Presentation Schedule
| Date | Topic | Reading Assignments (Slides) |
|---|---|---|
| September 2nd | Introduction, Vision and Challenges | Weiser, "The Computer for the 21st Century", Abowd, "Past, Present, and Future", Davies, "Challenges in Deploying", additional: Want, "Disappearing Hardware" (Kaps/Sousa) |
| September 9th | Applications | Meyer, "Homes" (Anthony), Johansson, "Rooms" (Rayvn), Abowd, "Classroom 2000" (Patrick), Bardram, "Hospitals" (David) |
| September 16th | New Devices and Technologies | [Hill,
Culler, "Wireless Sensor Networks, Technology and Challenges"] (Kaps), [Szewczyk, Abdelzaher, "Wireless Sensor Networks, Applications"] (John), [Want, Sheng, "RFIDs"] (Ice), [Lorincz, Jurik, "Emergency Response and Medical Monitoring"] (Omar) |
| September 23rd | Evaluation and Usability | Introduction (Sousa), Iachello, "Prototyping and Sampling Experience" (Omar), Consolvo, "Location Disclosure" (David) Ruyter, "Human-centered Interfaces" (Aditya) |
| September 30th | Low Power Circuit Design | Benini, "Low-Power Recipes" (Ice), Kim, "Leakage Current" (Aditya), Grunwald, "Dynamic Clock Scheduling" (Jeff) |
| October 7th | Power Management, Power Sources | Lorch "Energy Management" (Ice), Martin "Non-ideal Battery" (John), Amirtharajah "Energy Harvesting" (Anthony) |
| October 14th | Privacy | Palen, "Privacy Models" (Rayvn), Langheinrich "Privacy Awareness" (Kaps), Newton "Video Anonymization" (Patrick) |
| October 21st | Project Checkpoint | |
| October 28th | Security | Perrig "Security in WSN" and
Karlof "TinySec", (John) Kaps "Cryptography on a Speck of Dust" and Eisenbarth "Lightweight Cryptography" (Ice) |
| November 4th | Midterm | |
| November 11th | User I/O Devices and Interaction Models | Greenberg "Phidgets" (Aditya), Kjeldsen "Vision-based user interfaces" (Kaps), Buettner "RFID-Based Sensors" (Patrick), Peltonen "Multi-Touch Display" (Anthony) |
| November 18th | Awareness and User Modeling | Kobsa "User Modeling Systems" (Sousa), Dey "Mediation of ambiguous context" (David), Harrison "Multi-modal Sensing" (Jeff), Pirttikangas "Occupancy Sensing" (Jeff) |
| December 2nd | Middleware and Architectures | Garlan "Aura" (Rayvn), Roman "Active Spaces, Gaia" (Rayvn), Schiele "Pervasive Computing Middleware", Georgantas "Middleware Architecture for Ambient Intelligence" (Omar) |
| December 9th | Project Presentations | |
The schedule is subject to change!