Welcome to the web site for EasyLiving, a ubiquitous computing project of the Vision Group at Microsoft Research.

EasyLiving is developing a prototype architecture and technologies for building intelligent environments. The key features include:

• Computer vision for person-tracking and visual user interaction.
• Multiple sensor modalities combined.
• Use of a geometric model of the world to provide context.
• Automatic or semi-automatic sensor calibration and model building.
• Fine-grained events and adaptation of the user interface.
• Device-independent communication and data protocols.
• Ability to extend the system in many ways.

Current PowerPoint presentation. [PPT]

Previous presentations:
September 2000 [PPT]

Overview movie -- Interview with Steve Shafer for Microsoft Research 10th Anniversary video (June 2000; 3 minutes). [MPEG]

Latest demo movie (February 2001; 11+ minutes). [MPEG (124 MB)] [WMV (26 MB)] [WMV (3MB)]

Previous demo movies:
November 1999 (7+ minutes). [MPEG]

Exhibit slides for MS Museum by Dan Robbins. (February 2000) [PPT]

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a specification, submit a status report, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here for a month.

October 2001

• New publications added; people list updated.

The Vision group at Microsoft Research
Microsoft Research UK's Hardware Systems
The Intelligent Environments Home Page