{"52716":{"#nid":"52716","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Anind K. Dey: Modeling and Adding Intelligibility to Human Activities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nOver the past 20 years, a lot of effort has gone into making the vision\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nof ubiquitous computing a reality. A major focus of this effort has\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nbeen on the understanding of human activity as input to supporting\u003Cbr \/\u003E\napplications. However, it is only recently that we have developed both\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe ability to sense human activity and model it for appropriate use in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthese applications. Now that we can build interesting and useful\u003Cbr \/\u003E\napplications, we also need to focus on making these applications usable\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nby end-users. In this talk, Anind K. Dey will describe his work in sensing and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nmodeling human activity and preferences in a variety of domains\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nincluding office work, driving, and health. Dey will also describe work\u003Cbr \/\u003E\non making complex modeling systems intelligible to end-users who need\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nto form reasonable mental models of these systems in order to use them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nWork in both of these areas is essential for building useful and usable\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nubicomp applications.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBIO:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAnind K. Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInteraction (HCI) Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.\u00a0 He received\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhis Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2000, and was a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSenior Researcher for Intel Research Berkeley and an Adjunct Assistant\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProfessor at UC Berkeley from 2001 to 2004. His main research focus\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nlies at the intersection of HCI and ubiquitous computing. Specifically\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhe performs research in context-aware computing and sensor-based\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninteractions. He has conducted research in building context-aware\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ninfrastructures (including the Context Toolkit), models for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ncontext-aware systems, applications of context-aware applications and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndefinitions for context-aware systems. Recently his interests have\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfocused on how to make context-aware systems usable and adoptable by\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nend-users.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFor more information, see \u003Ca title=\u0022:http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~anind\/\u0022 class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/%7Eanind\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~anind\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-11 15:57:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:50:05","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2008-09-04T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2008-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2008-09-04T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2008-09-04 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2008-09-04 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2008-09-04 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"52715":{"id":"52715","type":"image","title":"Anind K. Dey: Modeling and Adding Intelligibility to Human Activities","body":null,"created":"1449175459","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:44:19","changed":"1475894476","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:16","alt":"Anind K. Dey: Modeling and Adding Intelligibility to Human Activities","file":{"fid":"146087","name":"GVULogoPositiveWeb.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GVULogoPositiveWeb_1.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/GVULogoPositiveWeb_1.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":4882,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/GVULogoPositiveWeb_1.gif?itok=WVQ8ArfX"}}},"media_ids":["52715"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}