Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life

Опубликовано 21 июня 2016, 20:41

Although we have successfully created smaller, faster, and cheaper computer devices, several adoption barriers remain to realize the dream of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). By lowering these barriers, we can seamlessly embed human-computer interfaces into our home and work environments. My work focuses on building integrated hardware/software sensing systems for Ubicomp applications using my expertise in embedded systems, low-energy hardware design, and sensing, in addition to integrating communications, signal processing, and machine learning. In this talk, I will use my research to present three main techniques to lower the installation, maintenance, and scalability adoption barriers and bring Ubicomp to life. First, I will discuss my work on using the existing infrastructure in buildings to reduce the number of sensors required to enable many Ubicomp applications. Second, I will discuss how the conductive properties of the human body can be leveraged to enable novel human-computer interactions and health sensing opportunities. Finally, I will describe techniques for dramatically reducing the power consumption of embedded sensor systems for Ubicomp applications. By continually working on application-driven interdisciplinary research, we can lower the adoption barriers and enable many new high-impact application domains.