Research Projects
(related to Homes of the Future)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
House_n: The MIT Home of the Future Project
Multi-disciplinary MIT project investigating all aspects of the future home, from design and architecture to computational sesning, education, and health.
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[Added 01/01/00]This research project is extending the typical UPC code to handle objects in the home that can be detected using RF tags and sensors embedded in countertops.
[Added 01/01/00]Most research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory impacts, in some way, the home of the future.
An office environment has been equipped with speech recognition technology and other sensors to automatically control video displays and some office devices. Research on how to create intelligent, distributed interactive environment control software.
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The Oxygen project is focussed on integrating speech technologies to create the next generation of "intelligent" computer systems.
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Most research at the MIT Media Laboratory impacts, in some way, the home of the future.
"Counter intelligence" consortium
MIT Media Laboratory research program investigating new technologies for the kitchen of the future.
[Added 01/01/00]MIT Media Laboratory research program broadly investigating new technologies that impact how we live our daily lives.
[Added 01/01/00]MIT Media Laboratory research program investigating new technologies that impact how the aging baby boomers will use technology. This program is affiliated with House_n.
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The Georgia Institute of Technology School for Computer Science has several research groups investigating issues related to the homes of the future. Projects include: Classroom 2000, Context Toolkit, Everyday Computing, Errata, Smart Floor, Ubiquitous Audio and Video, The Aware Home. Interesting Research projects to check out.
GaTech Future Computing Environments
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[Added 01/01/00]A project to use VR to provide a relaxing meditation space to provide health and well-being benefits [Added 03/01/00].
Microsoft Research "EasyLiving" Project
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University of Colorado "Adaptive House"
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Stanford's "Interactive Workspaces"
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Home Modification Action Project (HMAP)
USC's project to develop a model local home modification coalition in Southern California that can be replicated elsewhere, use new mechanisms to promote information sharing amongst consumers and professionals through the creation of "The Accessible Home Page", a World Wide Web site, create a compendium of state home modification policies and program, and sustain the efforts of the National Task Force on Home Modifications, including sponsorship of a Third National Conference on Home Modification.
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DARPA: Command Post of the Future Project
Designing the next-generation command post, which must have highly-sophisticated computer control but be easy to assemble, disassemble, and adapt, has issues that apply to the standard home. For example, look at these research papers: papers on military command posts.
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GMD's Workspaces of the Future
An integrated design of real spaces and virtual spaces allowing for dynamic configuration and flexible allocation of resources for project teams (e.g. on demand and ad hoc teams).
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CMU's The Intelligent Workplace [PDF brochure]
A rooftop extension to an existing building at CMU meant to be a working lab for intelligent building research. [Added 4/4/00]
Investigating new appliations for portable devices [Added 6/15/00]
Renewable Energy Policy Project
Investigating social policy changes that could lead to more energy-efficient homes and buildings. [Added 8/1/00]
Center for User-Oriented IT Design and the Interactive Instititute
Architecture and technology. [Added 8/1/00]
The University of Nottingham's Eco-Energy House
From the website: "The four bedroomed detached house, sited on University Park Campus, has been designed to demonstrate the integration of existing renewable energy technologies such as solar chimneys, solar thermal collectors, photovoltaics, light pipes and rainwater collection. The incorporation of a structural steel frame into the south half of the house will allow relatively quick and convenient mounting of new systems to the exterior of the building as well as the replacement of existing walls and windows by novel renewable energy envelope systems. The House will be occupied by researchers who will provide realistic demand profiles for the hot water, electricity etc, produced by the renewable energy systems and to provide feedback on system performance." [Added 07/14/00]
AT&T's Sentient Computing Project
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Harvard University's Center for Design Informatics
Philips Ambient Intelligence (click on ambient intelligence)
Also see: http://www.philips.com/casa/index.html [Added 4/5/01]
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