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Homes of the Future

 

 

House_n: The MIT Home of the Future Project

Multi-disciplinary  MIT project investigating all aspects of the future home, from design and architecture to computational sesning, education, and health. 

Emergent design group

 

Auto-ID Center

This research project is extending the typical UPC code to handle objects in the home that can be detected using RF tags and sensors embedded in countertops.

MIT AI Laboratory

Most research at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory impacts, in some way, the home of the future.

"Intelligent Room" project

An office environment has been equipped with speech recognition technology and other sensors to automatically control video displays and some office devices. Research on how to create intelligent, distributed interactive environment control software. 

Oxygen project

The Oxygen project is focussed on integrating speech technologies to create the next generation of "intelligent" computer systems.

MIT Media Laboratory

Most research at the MIT Media Laboratory impacts, in some way, the home of the future.

"Counter intelligence" consortium

MIT Media Laboratory research program investigating new technologies for the kitchen of the future.

Digital life consortium"

MIT Media Laboratory research program broadly investigating new technologies that impact how we live our daily lives.

Gray matters consortium

MIT Media Laboratory research program investigating new technologies that impact how the aging baby boomers will use technology.  This program is affiliated with House_n.

GaTech

The Georgia Institute of Technology School for Computer Science  has several research groups investigating issues related to the homes of the future. Projects include: Classroom 2000, Context Toolkit, Everyday Computing, Errata, Smart Floor, Ubiquitous Audio and Video, The Aware Home. Interesting Research projects to check out.

GaTech Future Computing Environments

 

"Aware Home"

 

Meditation Chamber

A project to use VR to provide a relaxing meditation space to provide health and well-being benefits

Microsoft Research "EasyLiving" Project

 

University of Colorado "Adaptive House"

 

UNC's "Office of the Future"

 

Stanford's "Interactive Workspaces"

 

Home Modification Action Project (HMAP)

USC's project to develop a model local home modification coalition in Southern California that can be replicated elsewhere, use new mechanisms to promote information sharing amongst consumers and professionals through the creation of "The Accessible Home Page", a World Wide Web site, create a compendium of state home modification policies and program, and sustain the efforts of the National Task Force on Home Modifications, including sponsorship of a Third National Conference on Home Modification.

DARPA: Command Post of the Future Project

Designing the next-generation command post, which must have highly-sophisticated computer control but be easy to assemble, disassemble, and adapt, has issues that apply to the standard home. For example, look at these research papers: papers on military command posts.

GMD's Workspaces of the Future

An integrated design of real spaces and virtual spaces allowing for dynamic configuration and flexible allocation of resources for project teams (e.g. on demand and ad hoc teams).

CMU's The Intelligent Workplace

A rooftop extension to an existing building at CMU meant to be a working lab for intelligent building research.

IBM's Pervasive Computing Lab

Investigating new appliations for portable devices

Renewable Energy Policy Project

Investigating social policy changes that could lead to more energy-efficient homes and buildings.

Center for User-Oriented IT Design and the Interactive Instititute

Architecture and technology.

The University of Nottingham's Eco-Energy House

From the website: "The four bedroomed detached house, sited on University Park Campus, has been designed to demonstrate the integration of existing renewable energy technologies such as solar chimneys, solar thermal collectors, photovoltaics, light pipes and rainwater collection. The incorporation of a structural steel frame into the south half of the house will allow relatively quick and convenient mounting of new systems to the exterior of the building as well as the replacement of existing walls and windows by novel renewable energy envelope systems. The House will be occupied by researchers who will provide realistic demand profiles for the hot water, electricity etc, produced by the renewable energy systems and to provide feedback on system performance."

AT&T's Sentient Computing Project

 

Harvard University's Center for Design Informatics

 

Philips Ambient Intelligence

 

http://www.philips.com/casa/index.html

 



Design Process Links

 

 

Universal Design and Home Accessibility

A list of links regarding smart designing.

Center for Inclusive Design & Environmental Access (IDEA)

Dedicated to improving the design of environments and products by making them more usable, safer and appealing to people with a wide range of abilities and through their life spans.

Energy Scheming at Wash U.

Network of energy technology teachers in architecture schools who's goal is to make it easier for architecture students to understand energy concepts and to design energy efficient buildings.

LBL Building Design Advisor

Free downloadable software that addresses the needs of building decision-makers from the initial schematic phases of building design through the detailed specification of building components and systems.

Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning--University of Colorado--Denver

Research into technology/computers and the design process

Home Energy Saver

Energy advisor--good resource to make home more energy efficient

Design Tools from U of Hawaii

Design tools to model sunpath, shading, make a sundial, photovoltaic loads

Passive Solar Industries Council

Specializes in integrated design solutions, Low-cost energy efficiency strategies, Daylighting & thermal performance analysis capabilities, and project-specific illustrations of energy & cost savings

Designing for a digital economy

 

 

Gadget/Appliance Links

 

 

CLEI Murphy-Bad-like bed/table mechanism

When the bed folds up, out folds a table.

Some future appliances, Part 2

Example of new networked appliance from Thalia.

Home of the Near Future

Gadgets from an exhibit at Saks Fifth Avenue shoinwg prototypes from a Philips Electronics designer. Glass toaster, tile speaker, picture phone, headphones holder, etc.

Kitchens and Bathrooms of the Future

 

Wired Fridge

From electrolux. Fridge with monitor and bar code reader.

New $6 camera on a chip

Camera can do fast low-level processing in hardware.

Yahoo! Internet Life Millenium Gadgets

Concept sketches of appliances for the future.

Take Control System Controller

One more step towards a universal interface device.

pdQ

Example of cell phone/PDA merging

Mitsubishi Consumer Electronics

Many A/V Gadgets.

Mitsubishi's Annual Report

1998 Report. Information on the company's plan for home appliances, building products, electronic and plastic materials, automation controls

Analog Devices

Amplifiers, Audio, Audio/Telephony Codecs, Automatic Test Equipment, Communication, Comparators, Copiers, Printers, Lasers, Data Conversion Products, Direct Digital Synthesis, DSPs, Hardware Monitors, Imagine & CCD Processing, Interface Line Drivers/Receiver, Matched Transistors, Micro Converters, Motor Control, Multi Chip Modules, Multipliers/Dividers, Power Management, Power Measurement, Precision Volt References, RMS-to-dc Converters Sensors & Signal Con, Switch/Muxes, Systems Solutions, uP Supervisory Circuits, Video Components

Real Goods

"Green" gadgets

Velux--Lighting

Manufacturer of window and window products

Jade Mountain

Solar electric, micro-hydro, wind generators, composting toilets & greywater systems, super energy efficient appliances

Prototyping, Integration, and Testing Laboratory (PITLAB)

Allows clinical and technical specialists to resolve integration problems and deploy working equipment and systems

Whole Building Diagnostician

Graphical record of building energy performance over time

The Maxidan Waste System

Kitchen Waste system--bags in the cabinets

Future Home Systems

Future Home Systems is your source for RF distribution, Telephone Intercoms,Security Cameras, Category 5 equipment, and DSS Satellite distribution equipment.

American Biometric BioMouse

Desktop fingerprint scanner for password security.

All-Purpose Bathroom

Blurb about all purpose/universal design bathroom developed by Metaform Personal Hygeine System in West Newton, Mass.

Research Frontiers Incorporated

Light Controlling Products: variable light transmission films, Emulsions for Making Variable Light Transmission Films, smart windows, flat panels displays, rear view mirrors, sun visors, and eyewear/ski goggles

 

 

Intelligent Environment/Building Links

 

 

 

www.solardesign.com
http://www.solarhouse.com

 

Solar homes, one in Maine.

Picard Residence

"Web-enabled eco house" being constructed in California.

IBM Wired Home

Pervasive access to information in the home. Brief overview without details.

Philips Smart Home

 

Command Post of the Future

DARPA sponsored project.

Smart Buildings

Essays by Architectural Engineering students at U of Kansas regarding, "Smart Buildings, What are they? What does the future hold for building technology"

Research in Neural and Statistical Computation at CU--Boulder

Links to professors in program and conference about Neural Information Processing Systems

Irvine Sensors Corporation

Manufacturers of microelectronics

Solahart Main Menu

 

Intelligent Environments Resource Page

Lots of links to projects/info maintained by Barry Brumitt at Microsoft.