FULL TITLE: "Beyond Mobility: Interaction, Interface, and Intention in the Age of Ubiquitous Sensing"
ABSTRACT: This talk will provide an overview of recent work by Professor Paradiso and his students at the MIT Media Lab. Their work addresses the broad theme of interfacing humans to the ubiquitous electronic "nervous system" of sensor networks that will soon extend across things, places, and people. Applications will involve cross-reality (everywhere blending of real and virtual worlds), personalization and security for ubiquitous media capture, wearable sensing, smart objects, human-computer interfaces, and instrumented social interaction.
BIOGRAPHY: Joseph Paradiso is the Sony Career Development Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction, and perception. In addition, he co-directs the Things That Think Consortium, a group of industry sponsors and Media Lab researchers who explore the extreme fringe of embedded computation, communication, and sensing.
After two years developing precision drift chambers at the Lab for High Energy Physics at ETH in Zurich, he joined the Draper Laboratory, where his research encompassed spacecraft control systems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision alignment sensors for large high-energy physics detectors. He joined the Media Lab in 1994, where his current research interests include embedded sensing systems and sensor networks, wearable and body sensor networks, energy harvesting and power management for embedded sensors, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, localization systems, passive and RFID sensor architectures, human-computer interfaces, and interactive media. His honors include the 2000 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation, and he has authored 200 articles and technical reports on topics ranging from computer music to power scavenging.
After receiving a BS in electrical engineering and physics summa cum laude from Tufts University, Paradiso became a K.T. Compton fellow at the Lab for Nuclear Science at MIT, receiving his PhD in physics there for research conducted at CERN in Geneva.
