Anthony LaMarca · Intel Research
The Growth of Sensing and Sensemaking and the Resulting Challenges and Opportunities for HCI

You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.

Computing devices are increasingly able to sense and infer high level context information about their users and their surroundings. This is true for both personal mobile devices as well as embedded computing infrastructure. This context information is a key enabler for new high-value applications and services across a variety of domains. At the same time, it creates both challenges and opportunities to improve the way people interact with these systems. This talk will introduce the new multi-university Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing. The center's goal is to develop the next generation of pervasive computing systems that are trustworthy, richly aware of their users and their activities, and continuously learning and adapting. This talk will describe our research approach, early results, and the implications we expect this work will have on human computer interaction.

Anthony LaMarca is a principal engineer in Intel Lab's Wireless Communication Lab. In late 2011, Intel announced the creation of a set of science and technology centers to help develop future technology in collaboration with top university research departments. Anthony is a researcher in the center at the University of Washington focusing on Pervasive Computing. Anthony's research interests include location and sensing technologies, pervasive computing, and mobile computing. He worked for a decade in the Intel research lab in Seattle, spending five years as the Associate Director of the lab. During that time Anthony led the Place Lab project which developed privacy-observant indoor/outdoor location technology and demonstrated the viability of metro-scale coverage by an 802.11 location system. Anthony has a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Washington. He can be contacted at anthony.lamarca@intel.com.