Georgia Tech Ubicomp Group

GVU Center Brown Bag: Gregory Abowd - "Ignorance is Bliss: A Retrospective On My Career at Georgia Tech"

Feb 2021

"[...] My time as full-time faculty at Georgia Tech ends at the end of February 2021, and I will begin a new chapter of my career as the Dean of Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston. I would like to reflect on the 26+ years I have spent at Georgia Tech, the College of Computing, and the GVU Center and try to explain why I think this place is so special. [...]"

GT Ubicomp at UBICOMP 2020

Sep 2020

GT Ubicomp presented the four IMWUT papers at UBICOM 2020. You can find the presentation videos and the link for the papers here.

GVU Center Brown Bag Seminar: Using digital technologies to support pandemic response on campus: A case study in the opportunities and challenges of WiFi

Aug 27, 2020

To support pandemic response on campus, the CampusLife effort in the School of Interactive Computing (Profs. Abowd, Plotz and De Choudhury) found an opportunity to pivot our research to support manual practices of contact tracing with information from the campus wireless network infrastructure. Profs. Abowd gives an overview of this effort and report on progress to date.

PTSD Project Awarded A Four-Year NSF Grant

Oct 2, 2019

A four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to a team of researchers from Georgia Tech, Emory University, and the University of Rochester will help bridge a gap between the number of veterans suffering from PTSD and those who seek and receive effective treatment. Listen and read about the computational assessment toolkit that will be developed by a team of researchers led by principal investigator Dr. Rosa Arriaga.

The Interaction Hour: Is Technology a Game Changer for PTSD Care? With Dr. Rosa Arriaga

Sep 26, 2019

In this podcast episode, host Dr. Ayanna Howard is joined by Dr. Rosa Arriaga, a senior research scientist in the School of Interactive Computing, whose new grant from the National Science Foundation aims to take on challenges surrounding PTSD: What are the challenges to providing effective care of patients facing PTSD or other chronic illnesses? Can usable computational tools be the key to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of treatment? Why is it important that we in the computing community continue to think about how our technologies work for people in the real world?

ACII 2019 Keynote Session by Thomas Ploetz

Sep 6, 2019

Dr. Thomas Ploetz gave a keynote at the IEEE ACII conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction held in Cambridge, UK (9/4–9/6, 2019). In his keynote on “Quo Vadis, [Computational] Behavior Analysis?” he reflected upon where the field is right now and where it is heading — with a specific lens on capturing, analysis, and deployments.

The Interaction Hour: Autism and Computing, With Dr. Gregory Abowd

Apr 16, 2019

In this podcast episode, hosted by Dr. Ayanna Howard, chiar of Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing, Professor Gregory Abowd discusses about the history and future of the space of autism and computing. What are the roles computer scientists can play in detection and intervention? What technologies are currently being used? As a community, what should we understand about autism?

The Interaction Hour: Social Cybersecurity, With Dr. Sauvik Das

Oct 4, 2018

What does a prohibition-era speakeasy have in common with modern-day cybersecurity? How can ancient biblical tales inform our development of such systems? To finally convince mainstream society to adopt good security behaviors in the future, is it imperative that we look, instead, to our past? School of Interactive Computing Assistant Professor Sauvik Das thinks so.

UVA ESE Colloquium - The Material for the 21st Century: Moving beyond Moore and Weiser

Mar 22, 2019

Professor Abowd proposes a new era of self-sustainable computing through the development of computational materials that can be truly woven into the fabric of everyday life and create decades of inspiration for new researchers across a variety of disciplines. He also demonstrates some initial examples of computational materials and explain why self-sustainable computing provides a compelling vision for computing in a post-Moore's Law world.

Stanford Seminar - The Material for the 21st Century: Moving beyond Moore and Weiser

Mar 8, 2019

Professor Abowd proposes a new era of self-sustainable computing through the development of computational materials that can be truly woven into the fabric of everyday life and create decades of inspiration for new researchers across a variety of disciplines. He also demonstrates some initial examples of computational materials and explain why self-sustainable computing provides a compelling vision for computing in a post-Moore's Law world.

GVU Center Brown Bag: Gregory Abowd - "Confessions of an Applied Computer Scientist"

Jan 10, 2019

Professor Abowd provides a simple framework to understand how to distinguish diffrent contributions of applied computing based on his nearly quarter of a century of work at Georgia Tech involving many different collaboration. This talk is meant to provide advice on when and how to develop a long-term cross-domain collabration.

UIST 2018 Vision talks: Gregory Abowd - The Material for the 21st Century

Oct 14, 2018

In his vision talk at UIST 2018, Professor Abowd proposed a new era of self-sustainable computing through the development of computational materials that can be truly woven into the fabric of everyday life and create decades of inspiration for new researchers across a variety of disciplines.

Oh, the Places They'll Go: Professor Gregory Abowd Looks Back on 30 Ph.D. Graduates

Aug 20, 2018

Professor Gregory Abowd hesitated when asked whether 30 Ph.D. graduates was a big number, then put it into context. "It’s a big number when you think that most of them have gone on to academic positions,” Abowd said. “I wouldn’t want to say that’s the best option for everyone, but it is something I’m proud of.”

Congrats to Dr. Cheng Zhang

May 5, 2018

Cheng Zhang successfully presented his thesis defense and participated in the hooding ceremony with advisors Dr. Gregory Abowd and Dr. Omer Inan. Dr. Zhang is an assistant professor at Cornell University.

Machine Learning for Sensor Data Analysis in HCI

Nov 30, 2017

Dr. Thomas Ploetz advocated the enormous potential machine learning methods have for current and next generations of HCI applications and systems — specifically targeting time-series assessment as it is most common for HCI related sensor data analysis problems.

Fabricating Accessibility

Oct 19, 2017

Dr. Jennifer Mankoff, the Ladner Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, presented the potential of assistive technologies (AT) for people with disabilities, as well as the challenges that end users face in leveraging them effectively to address AT issues in the GVU Center Distinguished Alumna Brown Bag Seminar

IC Faculty, Alumni Awarded with 10-Year Impact Award at Ubicomp 2017

Sep 19, 2017

School of Interactive Computing faculty and alumni were among a group of five recognized for the 10-Year Impact Award at the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2017)

Congrats to Dr. Joelle Alcaidinho

May 5, 2017

Joelle Alcaidinho successfully presented her thesis defense and participated in the hooding ceremony with advisors Dr. Gregory Abowd and Dr. Melody Jackson.

Congrats to Dr. Gabriel Reyes

May 5, 2017

Gabriel Reyes successfully presented his thesis defense and participated in the hooding ceremony with advisors Dr. Gregory Abowd and Dr. Keith Edwards.

Congrats to Dr. Aman Parnami

April 25, 2017

Aman Parnami successfuly finished his thesis defense and had a hooding ceremony with Dr. Gregory Abowd and Dr. Elizabeth Disalvo.

2017 SXSW Featured Speaker – Thad Starner

March 18, 2017

Dr. Thad Starner presented his work on voiceless speech recognition and brain-computer interfaces, essentially bridging gaps between people, machines, and their environments.

Mobile Health

March 30, 2017

Dr. Rosa Arriaga presented two problems associated with asthma and developmental disabilities, which are a lack of continuity of care between scheduled clinical visits and a scarcity of tools to promote communication between patients and clinical providers.

The COSMOS Conjecture

November 10, 2016

Dr. Gregory Abowd presented the COSMOS (Computational Skin for Multi-Object Systems) projec, which brings together expertise in materials, manufacturing, computing, electrical engineering and design to explore the challenges of this exciting post-Moore’s Law era of computing.

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