CITRIS Research Exchange: Supporting Self-management of Health with Ubiquitous Computing

February 7, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Maria & Dado Banatao Conference Room, UC Berkeley

Supporting Self-management of Health with Ubiquitous Computing
Anthony LaMarca, Associate Director, Intel Research Seattle

12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, February 7 in 290 HMMB, UC Berkeley

Part of the CITRIS Research Exchange at UC Berkeley. The complete schedule for the spring semester is online at RE-Spring2007. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

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Abstract:
Intel Research and the University of Washington are collaborating on a number of embedded computing systems to support health, wellness and independent living. Central to all of these systems is the use of technologies to sense, model and infer information about human activity. In this talk I will describe the industry trends that have made this research possible and then present two of our systems: The first system uses RFID (radio frequency identification) technology and machine learning to recognize and predict human activity based on observing the objects a person touches and the context in which the objects are used. The second system uses ambient displays and activity inference in a mobile device to encourage people to incorporate physical activity into their everyday lives. I will describe the major components of these systems, show some of the artifacts we've built and present our research findings.

Biography:
Anthony LaMarca is the associate director of Intel Research Seattle. His research interests include location technologies, ubiquitous computing, distributed systems and human-centered design. He most recently led the Place Lab project which sought to enable wide-scale device positioning using radio beacons. He has a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Washington.