The final schedule may change. Please check back frequently.
| Date | Discussion Theme | Class |
| January 6, 2009 | Early visionaries | Class introduction and goals Man-Computer Symbiosis J.C.R. Licklider As We May Think Vannevar Bush |
| January 8, 2009 | Community Sensing and Modeling | Sensing Meets Mobile Social Networks: The Design,
Implementation and Evaluation of the CenceMe Application E. Miluzzo, N. D. Lane, K. Fodor, R. A. Peterson, H. Lu, M. Musolesi, S. B. Eisenman, X. Zheng, A. T. Campbell. SenSys 2008 Towards Automated Social Analysis of Situated Speech Data D. Wyatt, T. Choudhury, J. Bilmes, and J. Kitts. Ubicomp 2008 |
| January 13, 2009 | iPhone development, experimentation and data analysis |
Cocoa development and building a simple iPhone app |
| January 14, 2009 | iPhone development, experimentation and data analysis | Audio, location, and accelerometer APIs/code examples |
| January 15, 2009 | iPhone development, experimentation and data analysis | Audio, location, and accelerometer APIs/code examples |
| January 20, 2009 | Community Sensing and Modeling |
A Note on the unification of information extraction and data mining using conditional-probability, relational models A. McCallum and D. Jensen IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data Toward Community Sensing A. Krause, E. Horvitz, A. Kansal, and F. Zhao IPSN 2008 Optional Reading: Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-based People-centric Inferencing N. Lane, H. Lu, S. Eisenman, and A. Campbell Pervasive 2008 |
| January 22, 2009 | Audio Processing | Introduction to auditory signal processing |
| January 27, 2009 | Audio Processing | Features for Segmenting and Classifying Long-Duration Recordings of Personal Audio D. Ellis and K.S. Lee ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Statistical and Perceptual Audio Processing Emotional speech recognition: Resources, features, and methods D. Ververidis and C. Kotropoulos. Speech Communication, 48(9), 1162-1181. 2006. Optional Reading: Social Playlists and Bottleneck Measurements : Exploiting Musician Social Graphs Using Content-Based Dissimilarity and Pairwise Maximum Flow Values Fields, B., Casey, M., Jacobson, K. and Rhodes, C. ICMIR 2008. |
| January 29, 2009 | Project | Final project brainstorming - we will decide on group goals. Three teams will work on (i) distributed sensing (ii) community-guided learning and (iii) mobile audio-based activity analysis system that combines (i) and (ii). |
| February 3, 2009 | Social Networks |
Friends and foes: Ideological social networking T. Hogg, G. Szabo, D. M. Wilkinson, and M. J. Brzozowski CHI 2008 The Structure of Information Pathways in a Social Communication Network G. Kossinets, J. Kleinberg, D. Watts. SIGKDD 2008 |
| February 5, 2009 | Project Meetings |
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| February 10, 2009 | Topic TBD | Starting
this week we will read two papers per week (a subset from the reading
list below). We will select papers most relevant to the project. Starting this week we will spend 75% of the class time reviewing project progress, discussing ideas, and doing hand-on exercises related to the final project. |
| February 12, 2009 | Project Meetings | |
| February 17, 2009 | Topic TBD | |
| February 19, 2009 | Project Meetings | |
| February 24, 2009 | Topic TBD | |
| February 26, 2009 | Project Meetings | |
| March 3, 2009 | Topic TBD | |
| March 5, 2009 | Project Meetings | |
| March 10, 2009 | Final Project | Project demonstrations and presentations |
Reading List
Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks
R. Milo, S. Shen-Orr, S. Itzkovitz, N. Kashtan, D. Chklovskii, U. Alon
Science 25 October 2002:
Social networks that matter: Twitter under the microscope
B. A. Huberman, D. M. Romero and F. Wu
An experimental study of search in global social networks
P. S. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. J. Watts
Science, Volume 301, p.827-829 (2003)
Do you sound like your friends Exploring artist similarity via artist social network relationships and audio signal processing
Fields, B., Jacobson, K., Casey, M., Sandler, M.
ICMC 2008.
Why collective inference improves relational classification
David Jensen, Jennifer Neville and Brian Gallagher.
SIGKDD. 2004.
Mobiscopes for Human Spaces
T. Abdelzaher, Y. Anokwa, P. Boda, J. Burke, D. Estrin, L. Guibas, A. Kansal, S. Madden, and J. Reich
IEEE Pervasive Computing 6, 2 (2007), 20-29.
Seeing Our Signals: Combining location traces and web-based models for personal discovery
E. Agapie, G. Chen, D. Houston, E. Howard, J. Kim, M. Y. Mun, A. Mondschein, S. Reddy, R. Rosario, J. Ryder, A. Steiner, J. Burke, E. Estrin, M. Hansen, M. Rahimi,
HotMobile 2008
Participatory Sensing
J. Burke, D. Estrin, M. Hansen, A. Parker, N. Ramanathan, S. Reddy, M. B. Srivastava.
Sensys 2006
Building a sensor network of mobile phones
A. Kansal, M. Goraczko, and F. Zhao
IPSN 2007
PoolView: Stream Privacy for Grassroots Participatory Sensing
R. K. Ganti, N. P. Duc, Y. Tsai, T. Abdelzaher
SenSys 2008
Micro-Blog: Sharing and Querying Content Through Mobile Phones and Social Participation
S. Gaonkar, J. Li, R. R. Choudhury, P. C. Landon, and Al Schmidt
MobiSys 2008
Increasing the Precision of Mobile Sensing Systems through Super-Sampling
R. Honicky, E. Brewer, J. Canny, R. Cohen
UrbanSense 2008
MobileSense - Sensing Modes of Transportation in Studies of the Built Environment
J. Lester, P. Hurvitz, R. Chaudhri, C. Hartung, G. Borriello
UrbanSense 2008
The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded System for Activity Recognition
T. Choudhury, G. Borriello, et.al.
IEEE Pervasive Magazine - Special Issue on Activity-Based Computing, April 2008.
Overview paper on MSP