Scott Davidoff | Big Data in Service of People.

Main research findings

A New Kind of Smart Calendar

Mobile phone GPS can be used to learn unsupervised models of family logistics. A smart app can display this as a plan. Parents report this improves their planning and coordination.

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A Road Map For Smart Logistics Applications

Stressed dual-income parents have to plan transportation multiple times for over 80% of their kids' activities. Smart calendars and reminder systems can lead to fewer breakdowns

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Low-Fidelity Simulation Exposes Risks to Learning Systems

Social roles interact with functional capabilities.

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A Smart Bag that Teaches Kids Responsibility

Don't build smart devices so that kids never forget, but instead make smart devices that teach kids to remember

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Recent Publications all

Ubicomp 2011 Mechanical hijacking: how robots can accelerate UbiComp deployments pdf | ppt

CHI 2011 Learning patterns of pick-ups and drop-offs to support busy family coordination pdf | ppt

Group 2010 Finding appropriate roles for AI in the home: Experiences learning dual-income family routines pdf | ppt

Ubicomp 2010 Routine as resource for the design of learning systems pdf | ppt

CHI 2010 How routine learners can support family coordination pdf | ppt

News Feed

New chapter in the @interacting encyclopedia > @ProfessorHook on affective computing, with video interviews |

For all at #Prospect_NOLA, the new Orleans Biennial, here's an interactive map |

RT @skayan |

| @feltron to design: representing time as a continuous line does not map onto our experience as moments

@oulasvirta will miss meeting you in Helsinki in January but hope we get a chance for idea exchange soon

2-D augmented reality at New Orleans Biennial #Prospect_NOLA | I really want him to be able to grab the chair http://t.co/hZt7jjyM

Beautiful sculptural use of glass. That is actually a block of glass in the center http://t.co/ylBve5ra

Consciousness must have come into being because it conferred ... bioiological advantage on those... that possessed it -- Nicholas Humphrey

What's an affordance? Ask Don Norman |

Kicking it old school. Don Norman on the action cycle. Designer, refresh thyself |

Interesting approach to secure cloud authentication: Belay using BCAP prototcol |

@jseelybrown on @ArtSchopenhauer "the task is not to see new but to think new about what we all see" @ubicomp2011 panel

How to use robot pseudopods to mechanically hijack physical interfaces designed for human hands |

off to beijing for @ubicomp2011 session 6

. looking forward to introduce #mechanicalhijacking

@googleresearch thank you for university award. made this possible: Machine Learning to Support Family Coordination.

The currency used in the casino of evolution is survival -- Richard Dawkins

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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he will fight and die for it -- Francis Crick

Science advances one funeral at a time -- Max Planck

#sinatra #ruby on #rails prototyping toolkit |

| great for complex routing

@rkrulwich

if people want any help, it is with control of their lives, not control of their devices

Artist Shea Hembry shames other artists with his productivity

Folk singer Scott Blaszak on Studio 360 sings (It’s Hard...