CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
Fridays 12:50-2:05 · Gates B01 · Open to the public
Bradley Rhodes · Ricoh InnovationsIntelligence Augmentation: Creating a Prosthetic for the Brain
May 3, 2002
Intelligence augmentation is the study of devices that makes
people smarter, and the way the these devices integrate with
everyday human intelligence. In designing and studying these
devices the field combines Human Computer Interaction, Artificial
Intelligence and Cognitive Science. I will present several examples
of work in Intelligence Augmentation ranging from software agents
to wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, and will discuss
challenges facing the field. I will also present some of the
lessons we learned from the MIT wearable computing project, a
living experiment in which we wore computers in our daily lives
for a period of 4+ years.
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Bradley Rhodes
is a research scientist at Ricoh
Innovations in Silicon Valley, where he works on systems
for information capture, organization and retrieval. Prior to
Ricoh he was a PhD candidate in the MIT Media Lab's Software
Agents group working on the Remembrance Agent, a software agent
that watches a person's local context and automatically provides
information that may be relevant. He was also an early member
of the MIT Wearable Computing Project, a living experiment in
which he wore a computer, complete with head-mounted display,
wireless connection and one-handed keyboard, throughout his daily
life for a period of four years. The goal of the project was
to learn how computers might be used once they become small enough
to embed in clothing and jewelry. More important than the technology
itself, the study produced far-reaching conclusions about the
social and psychological results of living as a cyborg in the
21st century.
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