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This page has pointers to publications of the EasyLiving project.  Except where noted, the publications are publicly available and are not confidential.

Journal Articles
Refereed Conference Papers
Other Refereed Publications
Non-Refereed Publications


Journal Articles

"Interaction Issues in Context-Aware Interactive Environments".  Shafer, S.A.N., Brumitt, B., and Cadiz, J.J.  Interactions, to appear.  [DOC]

"Ubiquitous Computing and the Role of Geometry".  Brumitt, B., Krumm, J., Meyers, B., and Shafer, S.  IEEE Personal Communications, August 2000.  [PDF]

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Refereed Conference Papers

"Let There Be Light: Comparing Interfaces for Homes of the Future".  Brumitt, B. and Cadiz, J.J.  Submitted to CHI, April 2001.  Also Microsoft Research Technical Report 2000-92.  [PDF]  [DOC]

"Visual Panel: Towards a Mobile Visual Input Interface for Anywhere".  Wu, Y., Shan, Y., Zhang, Z., and Shafer, S.  Submitted to CHI, April 2001.  [PDF]

"EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments".  Brumitt, B., Meyers, B., Krumm, J., Kern, A., and Shafer, S.  Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, September 2000.  [PDF]

"Multi-Camera Multi-Person Tracking for EasyLiving".  Krumm, J., Harris, S., Meyers, B., Brumitt, B., Hale, M., and Shafer, S.  IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance, July 2000.  [DOC]  [PDF]  [PS]

"Object Recognition for an Intelligent Room".  Campbell, R. and Krumm, J.  IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 2000.  [DOC]  [PDF]  [PS]

"Detection and Estimation of Pointing Parameters in Dense Disparity Maps".  Jojic, N., Brumitt, B., Meyers, B., Harris, S., and Huang, T.  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, March 2000.  [PDF]

"Wallflower: Principles and Practice of Background Maintenance".  Toyama, K., Krumm, J., Brumitt, B., and Meyers, B.  Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision, September 1999.  [DOC]  [PDF]

"Object Recognition with Color Cooccurrence Histograms".  Chang, P. and Krumm, J.  IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June 1999.  [DOC]  [PDF]

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Other Refereed Publications

"Better Living Through Geometry".  Brumitt, B. and Shafer, S.  CHI Workshop on Situated Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing, April 2000.  Also submitted to Springer Journal of Personal Technologies.  [PDF]

"<Context-Aware> schema </Context-Aware>".  Meyers, B. and Kern, A.  CHI Workshop on The What, Who, When, Where, Why, and How of Context-Awareness, April 2000.  [DOC]

"The EasyLiving Intelligent Environment System".  Shafer, S., Brumitt, B., and Meyers, B.  CHI Workshop on Research Directions in Situated Computing, April 2000.  [DOC]

"EasyLiving: Ubiquitous Computing and the Role of Geometry".  Brumitt, B., Krumm, J., Meyers, B., and Shafer, S.  DARPA/NIST Workshop on Smart Spaces, July 1999.  [PDF]  Presentation.  [PPT]

"The New EasyLiving Project at Microsoft Research".  Shafer, S., Krumm, J., Brumitt, B., Meyers, B., Czerwinski, M., and Robbins, D.  DARPA/NIST Workshop on Smart Spaces, July 1998.  [DOC]  [PDF]

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Non-Refereed Publications

"Ubiquitous Computing and the EasyLiving Project".  Shafer, S.  Invited presentation at 40th Anniversary Symposium of Osaka Electro-Communications University, November 2001.  [DOC]

"Topological World Modeling Using Semantic Spaces".  Brumitt, B. and Shafer, S.  UBICOMP 2001 Workshop on Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing, October 2001.  [DOC]

"How a Smart Environment Can Use Perception".  Krumm, J., Shafer, S., and Wilson, A.  UBICOMP 2001 Workshop on Perception for Ubiquitous Computing, October 2001.  [PDF]

"Ten Dimensions in Ubiquitous Computing".  Shafer, S.  Keynote presentation at Conference on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments, December 1999.  [DOC]  Presentation.  [PPT]

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