Donald J. Patterson  Position: Assistant Professor Area: Ubiquitous Computing Office: 214 ICS2 Office Telephone: (949) 824-9456 Office Fax: (949) 824-4056 Office Email: djp3@ics.uci.edu Skype VOIP:  d_j_p_3 AIM IM: manwakeup Yahoo IM: d_j_p_3@yahoo.com Jabber IM: donald.j.patterson.iii@gmail.com

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Projects for Highly Talented and Motivated Students

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• Nomatic: Intelligent Context-Aware IM
  • Nick  Noack 
    • Position: Research Assistant
  • Kah  Liu 
    • Position: Undergraduate

  • This project is about localization from the perspective of crowds. We are looking for new computing opportunities that arise when many people are simultaneously localizing themselves. We are are using pilot studies to guide the development of strategies to motivate crowds to share context information, one portion of which is location. Our initial strategy is through the use of a context-aware instant messenger client called Nomatic*Gaim.
    
    More information about this software can be found here.

• Supporting Humanitarian Relief using Context-Aware Computers

  • When a crisis affects the developing world many organizations respond in a wide variety of ways to the needs that emerge. Clean water, vaccinations, infrastructure repair, diplomatic assistance and refugee management are all issues that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are simultaneously dealing with in an effort to relieve suffering and give those affected a way forward. NGOs typically have very focussed missions that involve a few, but not all of these areas of relief. We are developing mobile tagging devices that will help NGOs manage their resources in the weeks, months and years after a crisis occurs. The devices utilize GPS technology, digital cameras, and mobile phones to collect and disseminate information among many different NGOs. This technology will allow information about refugee populations, collected for a human rights organization to benefit the work of another organization that is trying to distribute food and clothing to displaced people. Innovations are being driven by device convergence in an infrastructure poor environment with a human network that only partially trusts each other.
    
    See also Winter 2006: Special Topics in Ubiquitous Computing Course.

• Ambient Displays
  • Sharon Xianghua Ding 
    • Position: Research Assistant
• SALI Counts the Cost: Gathering context with limited resources
  • Zubin  Tiku 
    • Position: Masters Student
• Executive Function: Context-Aware Calendars for people with Traumatic Brain Injury
• Large-Screen Computing Interfaces: Throw and Snap
• Landmark based Navigation: Scanning the environment for smarter directions
• RFID Privacy Techniques: Active Shielding
• Household Dashboard: making invisible domestic work visible
• Deaft Gestures: Automatic Recognition of American Sign Language with Accelerometers

Other Students I'm working with

Advancement Committee member for:

• Guard Placement for Wireless Localization
  • Nodari  Sitchinava 
• Event-Prediction in Social Networks
  • Joshua  O'Madadhain 
• Ubiquitous Technology for Domestic Work
  • Jennifer  Rode 

Master's Thesis Committee Member for:

• Ambient Tangible Interfaces
  • Amanda  Williams 

Classes

• 2006 Winter
  • ICS 280:Special Topics in Ubiquitous Computing
  • ICS 290:Recent Research in Ubiquitous Computing
• 2005 Fall
  • ICS 290:Recent Trends in Ubiquitous Computing
  • ICS 212:Embedded Systems

Things that I'm involved with

• Local Arrangements Chair: UBICOMP 2006
• Program Committee Member: Pervasive 2006
• Program Committee Member: 2nd International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2006)