The Pennyworth Project

Open-source context-aware software & services

Publications

Our publication list is currently under construction, and we appreciate your patience.

Recommended Reading

The following publications have been crucial in guiding the conception and implementation of the software that we produce.

Bellotti, V., Edwards, K. 2001. Intelligibility and Accountability: Human Considerations in Context-Aware Systems. Human-Computer Interaction. 16:2. 193-212.

Fogarty, J., Au, C., and Hudson, S. 2006. Sensing from the basement: a feasibility study of unobtrusive and low-cost home activity recognition. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (Montreux, Switzerland, October 15 - 18, 2006). UIST '06. ACM, New York, NY, 91-100.

Fogarty, J. and Hudson, S. 2007. Toolkit support for developing and deploying sensor-based statistical models of human situations. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 135-144.

Fogarty, J., Hudson, S., Lai, J. 2004. Examining the robustness of sensor-based statistical models of human interruptibility. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004). CHI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 207-214.

Ho, J., Intille, S. 2005. Using context-aware computing to reduce the perceived burden of interruptions from mobile devices. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, Oregon, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM, New York, NY, 909-918.

Hong, J. Landay, J. 2001. An Infrastructure Approach to Context-Aware Computing. Human-Computer Interaction. 16:2. 287-303.

Lederer, S., Hong, I., Dey, K., and Landay, A. 2004. Personal privacy through understanding and action: five pitfalls for designers. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 8:6. Nov. 2004. 440-454.

Munguia Tapia, E., Intille, S., Larson, K. 2004. Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors. In Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004. Ferscha, A., Mattern, F. (eds.). Vol. LNCS 3001, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 158-175.

Salber, D., Dey, A., Abowd, G. 1999. The Context Toolkit: Aiding the Development of Context-Enabled Applications. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: the CHI Is the Limit (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, May 15 - 20, 1999). CHI '99. ACM, New York, NY, 434-441.

Schilit, B., Theimer, M. 1994. Disseminating active map information to mobile hosts. IEEE Network. Vol. 8. No. 5. 22-32.

Winograd, T. 2001. Architectures for Context. Human-Computer Interaction. 16:2-4. Feb. 2001. 401–41.

Please let us know if any of the links become stale or fail to take you to a specific paper. Thanks!