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Friday 10:30-12:00Closing Plenary: Context Aware ComputingTed SelkerThe familiar and useful come from things we recognize. Many of our favorite things' appearance communicate their use; they show the change in their value though patina. As technologists we are now poised to imagine a world where computing objects communicate with us in-situ; where we are. We use our looks, feelings, and actions to give the computer the experience it needs to work with us. Keyboards and mice will not continue to dominate computer user interfaces. Keyboard input will be replaced in large measure by systems that know what we want and require less explicit communication. Sensors are gaining fidelity and ubiquity to record presence and actions; sensors will notice when we enter a space, sit down, lie down, pump iron, etc. Pervasive infrastructure is recording it. All to often computers require users to remember and communicate in arcane actions. Sometimes they want users to type often they want them to drag their hand around on the table holding a rock like object called a mouse. People want to focus on the people and tasks they care about. This talk will describe the efforts of the Context Aware Computing Group, at the MIT Media Lab to design prototypes to support scenario requiring little or no extra actions from users. Our work on context aware computing builds intention-based interfaces based on where users are what they are doing and knowing what else has been done in this situation. These systems are driven by any manor of sensors to interact with artificial intelligence based models of user system and task. Dr. Ted Selker is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media and Arts Technology Laboratory, and the Director of the Context Aware Computing Lab. Context aware computing strives to create a world in which people's desires and intentions cause computers to help them. The lab is recognized for its work in creating environments that use sensors and artificial intelligence to create so-called "virtual sensors"; adaptive models of users to create keyboardless computer scenarios. Ted is director of Counter Intelligence a forum at the Media Lab discussing kitchens and domestic technology, lifestyles and supply changes as a result of technology. Prior to joining MIT faculty in November 1999, Ted Directed the User Systems Ergonomics Research lab at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he became IBM Fellow in 1996. He has served as a consulting professor at Stanford University, taught at Hampshire, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Brown Universities and worked at Xerox PARC and Atari Research Labs. Ted is the author of 18 patents, 20 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. Ted's inventions have received more than 30 awards from publications like PC Magazine, Business Week, and BYTE.
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