HCII Leads Charge in New Google-Funded Project
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Carnegie Mellon University is turning its campus into a living laboratory for a multi-university expedition to create a robust platform to enable Internet-connected sensors, gadgets and buildings to communicate with each other. And the HCII is taking a leading role.
CMU researchers will work with colleagues at Cornell, Stanford, Illinois and Google to create GIoTTO, a new platform to support Internet of Things applications. Initial plans for GIoTTO include sensors that are inexpensive and easy to deploy, new middleware to facilitate app development and manage privacy and security, and new tools that enable end users to develop their own IoT experiences.
"The goal of our project will be nothing less than to radically enhance human-to-human and human-to-computer interaction through a large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things that ensures privacy, accommodates new features over time and enables people to readily design applications for their own use," said HCII Director Anind Dey, lead investigator of the expedition.
Read the full story on the School of Computer Science news page. And check out the stories about this exciting research in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Business Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.