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The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research

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We are building a home, called the Aware Home, to create a living laboratory for research in ubiquitous computing for everyday activities. This paper introduces the Aware Home project and outlines some of our technology-and human-centered research objectives in creating the Aware Home.

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Kidd, C.D. et al. (1999). The Aware Home: A Living Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_17

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_17

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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