The Future Computing Environments (FCE) Group at Georgia Tech is a collection of faculty and students that share a desire to understand the partnership between humans and technology that arises as computation and sensing become ubiquitous. With expertise covering the breadth of Computer Science, but focusing on HCI, Computational Perception, and Machine Learning, the indi- vidual research agendas of the FCE faculty are grounded in a number of shared living laboratories where their research is applied to everyday life in the classroom (Classroom 2000), the home (Aware Home), the office (Augmented Offices), and on one’s person (Wearable Computing).
（もちろん）専門性の基礎はコンピューターサイエンスですが、焦点はHCI、コンピューターによる認知、機械の自己学習にもあり、FCEの教授陣の個々の研究課題は日々のクラスルーム、家庭(aware home:,家庭向けコンピュータ利用を研究する実験住宅)、オフィス(拡張されたオフィス）や個人等の日々の生活に応用できる研究を提供するいくうかの共有された実験室に根ざしている
The Future Computing Environments Group mission is to invent and better understand what constitutes an effective, everyday partnership between humans and emerging computing technology. A critical component of our approach is building and extensively experimenting with prototype environments, which we refer to as living laboratories. Largely due to initial successes with these living laboratories, the FCE Group is recognized as a leading research group in ubiquitous computing . Our reputation has resulted in growth in associated faculty and research breadth and depth.
We are in an excellent position to pursue a research agenda in which we not only create ubiquitous computation and ubiquitous sensing technologies (both embedded in the environment and worn by the inhabitants), but also uncover the essential HCI principles that will allow these technologies to be smoothly and appropriately incorporated into the ebb and flow of everyday activity. Our view of the major application themes for HCI research in ubicomp (capture, context, natural interfaces and everyday computing), as well as additional challenges to understanding the impact of ubicomp on our everyday lives, are discussed in.
The cornerstone of the FCE Group is a common belief in the value of creating living laboratories where we can experience, analyze and improve the very technologies we are inventing. In these laboratories, we are investigating and building futuristic computing applications that apply ubiquitous computing technology to everyday life, such as in the classroom, the office, and the home. FCE members have created several living laboratories and are in the process of creating two more
We have initiated a research agenda centered around computing in the home. Because we feel that any signifi- cant research in this area must be conducted in an authentic yet experimental setting, much of this research will take place in the Broadband Institute Residential Laboratory, a research house that will be completed early in the year 2000. The Residential Laboratory will serve as the living laboratory for ubiquitous computing in home life. We refer to our collected efforts as the Aware Home project, signifying our intent to produce an environment that is capable of knowing information about itself and the whereabouts and activities of its inhabitants.
We have initiated parallel technology- and human-centered research programs to study the technologies as well as specific applications.To push our research themes into the classroom, we teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Ubiquitous Computing and run an ongoing research seminar. The undergraduate class, co-taught by all FCE faculty, gives the students hands-on experience with ubiquitous computing technologies. We also integrate ubiquitous computing issues into our graduate and undergraduate classes on computational perception, machine learning, embedded systems, HCI software and evaluation methods for HCI.
To push our research themes into the classroom, we teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Ubiquitous Computing and run an ongoing research seminar. The undergraduate class, co-taught by all FCE faculty, gives the students hands-on experience with ubiquitous computing technologies. We also integrate ubiquitous computing issues into our graduate and undergraduate classes on computational perception, machine learning, embedded systems, HCI software and evaluation methods for HCI.
We are currently instrumenting a number of office spaces in and around Georgia Tech to help us study how ubiquitous computing can be used more effectively in the office environment. We are interested in exploring how we can perceive the activities of the inhabitants, and apply that information to more effectively support office workers who may be using a diverse set of technologies (such as wall sized or head-worn displays).
