Buildings are known to be the largest consumers of electricity in the United States, and often times the dominant energy consumer is the HVAC system. Despite this fact, in most bu...
We present a novel method of building comfort control, focused around the occupant. Custom sensing, communication, and actuation hardware were developed to locate users in a buildi...
We have developed an approach for whole-house gross movement and room transition detection through sensing at only one point in the home. We consider this system to be one member o...
Shwetak N. Patel, Matthew S. Reynolds, Gregory D. ...
Abstract: We propose a new system that is able to handle the entire Personal Dataspace of a user. A Personal Dataspace includes all data pertaining to a user on all his disks and o...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Markus Fä...
Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help ...