{"51402":{"#nid":"51402","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Application to Classify Electrical Activity in Houses Wins Best Paper and Best Presentation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA paper titled \u0022At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nUnique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line,\u0022 written by\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nCollege of Computing Graduate Students Shwetak N. Patel and Julie A.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nKientz, along with Research Scientist Thomas Robertson, Senior Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nScientist Matthew Reynolds and Professor Gregory Abowd, has won the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nBest Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nComputing (Ubicomp 2007), held in Innsbruck, Austria, on September\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n16-19, 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EShwetak N. Patel also received the Best Presentation Award at Ubicomp 2007 for his presentation of the paper.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022In the last 10 years, there has been a growing community of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nresearchers who try to detect activities based on simpler sensing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n[methods] than a camera. The problem with most of these approaches is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthat you have to attach sensors to lots of people, places and things,\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsaid Adowd. Such a problem is solved by a solution presented in the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\npaper.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe approach developed by the group uses a single plug-in sensor to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndetect events such as turning on or off a particular light switch, a\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ntelevision set, or an electric stove. According to the paper\u0027s\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nabstract, activity-sensing in the home has applications for research in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nareas including healthcare, entertainment, home automation, and home\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nenergy monitoring.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to the Ubicomp 2007 website, the conference series\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u0022provides the premier forum in which to present research results in all\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nareas relating to the design, implementation, application and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nevaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies, bringing together\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nleading researchers from a variety of disciplines and geographical\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nareas who are exploring the frontiers of computing as it moves beyond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nthe desktop and becomes increasingly interwoven into the fabrics of our\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nlives.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA paper titled \u0022At the Flick of a Switch: Detecting and Classifying Unique Electrical Events on the Residential Power Line,\u0022 written by College of Computing Graduate Students Shwetak N. Patel and Julie A. Kientz, along with Research Scientist Thomas Robertson, Senior Research Scientist Matthew Reynolds and Professor Gregory Abowd, has won the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2007), held in Innsbruck, Austria, on September 16-19, 2007.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:43:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:49","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2007-09-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}