Stephen S. Intille

Research Scientist
Technology Director: House_n
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Architecture
1 Cambridge Center, 4FL
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
617-452-2346
intille@mit.edu
http://www.mit.edu/~intille

December, 2007

Research Interests

Computational sensing and user interface systems for preventive medicine, persuasive user interfaces for motivating behavior change, experimental ubiquitous computing, living laboratories, perceptually-based interactive environments for home and educational settings, dynamic scene understanding, context-based computer vision, artificial intelligence, health technology and policy. 

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Media Laboratory
Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences (September 1999)
Dissertation title: Visual recognition of multi-agent action
Area of specialization: computer vision action recognition and interactive vision system

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Media Laboratory
S.M. in Media Arts and Sciences (August 1994)
Thesis title: Tracking using a local closed-world assumption

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (May 1992)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Employment History

MIT Dept. of Architecture, Cambridge, MA
(September 1999 - present)
Research Scientist. Research and teaching on topics related to computational sensing for interactive environments and future human-computer interface design. Supervision of graduate and undergraduate students. Technology Director of the House_n Consortium (since 2002). Grant-writing and corporate fundraising for research efforts. MIT Principal Investigator on NSF, NIH, Intel, CIMIT, Microsoft Research, IBM, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grants. 

MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
(September 1992 - August 1999)
Research Assistant. Published research in computer vision and interactive vision systems.

Penn General Robotics and Sensory Perception (GRASP) Laboratory
(Summer 1991)
Research Assistant. Developed a visual interface for a range image recognition system.

Honors and Awards

  • Principal Investigator NSF three-year award (2007).
  • Principal Investigator NIH four-year award (2007), including special supplement.
  • MIT Principal Investigator on subcontract to Vanderbilt University for NIH research project (2007)
  • Principal Investigator Intel AIM three-year grant award (2007)
  • Principal Investigator Microsoft Digital Memories (Memex) one-year grant award (2005)
  • Selected as the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecturer by a young engineer (2005)
  • MIT Principal Investigator NIH two-year grant award (2005) (Lead: Northeastern University) 
  • MIT Principal Investigator NIH two-year grant award (2004) (Lead: Boston Medical Center) 
  • Principal Investigator NSF ITR two-year grant award (2003)
  • Principal Investigator Intel AIM three-year grant award (2003)
  • IBM Faculty Award (2003)
  • Principal Investigator Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award (2002)
  • Principal Investigator NSF ITR two-year grant award (2001)
  • KidsRoom environment invited to appear in Britain's Millennium Dome (1999) and at the Ars Electronica Center (1997). A commercialized version of this system created by NearLife for the British Millennium Dome won an interactive media design award from ID Magazine (2000).
  • Founder and team leader of Semi-Finalist Adaptive Interfaces MIT 50K Business Competition team (1998) and founder of a winning MIT 1K Business Idea Competition entrepreneurial team (1997, 2000)
  • Graduated Summa Cum Laude, University of Pennsylvania (1992)
  • Special Recognition of Service Senior Engineering Student Award, University of Pennsylvania (1992)
  • Tau Beta Pi, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering (1991)
  • Outstanding Sophomore Engineer Award, University of Pennsylvania (1989)

Service

  • Scientific Program Committee: International Conference On Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST) (2008)
  • Technical Program Committee: European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (2007) 
  • Technical Program Committee: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (2007, 2004) 
  • Program Committee: 2nd International Conference on Technology and Aging (2007)
  • Technical Program Committee Member: First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being (2006)
  • IMIA Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living Working Group (2006-)
  • Organizing Committee Member: AAAI Spring Symposium on Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare (2006)
  • Technical Program Committee Co-Chair: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (2005) 
  • Technical Program Committee Member: International Conference on Pervasive Computing (2005) 
  • Technical Program Committee Member: IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments 2005 
  • National Science Foundation reviewer
  • National Institutes of Health reviewer
  • Member of the National Academy of Engineering 2005 Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering Organizing Committee
  • Workshop organization (see below)
  • Reviews for (among others): 

IEEE TITB
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Pervasive Conference
UbiComp Conference
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
User Interface and Software Technology Conference
International Symposium on Wearable Computers Conference 
Persuasive Conference

Publications and Presentations

Publications in refereed journals

M.S. Goodwin, W.F. Velicer, and S.S. Intille, "Telemetric monitoring in the behavior sciences," Behavior Research Methods, 2007. In press.

Beaudin, J.S., S.S. Intille, and M.E. Morris, To track or not to track: User reaction to concepts in longitudinal health monitoring. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2006. 8(4): p. 29.

K. Patrick, S. Intille, and M. Zabinski, "An ecological framework for cancer communication: implications for research," Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 7, pp. e23, 2005.

S. S. Intille, "A new research challenge: persuasive technology to motivate healthy aging," Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 8(3), pp. 235-237, 2004.

S.S. Intille, "Designing a home of the future," IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June, pp. 80-86, 2002.

S.S. Intille and A.F. Bobick, "Recognizing planned, multi-person action," Computer Vision and Image Understanding (1077-3142), vol. 81(3), pp. 414-445, 2001.

C.S. Pinhanez, J.W. Davis, S.S. Intille, M. Johnson, A. Wilson, A.F. Bobick, and B. Blumberg, "Physically interactive story environments," IBM Systems Journal, vol. 39(3/4), pp. 438-455, 2000. 

A.F. Bobick, S.S. Intille, J.W. Davis, F. Baird, C.S. Pinhanez, L.W. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schütte, and A. Wilson, "The KidsRoom: a perceptually-based interactive immersive story environment," PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 8(4), pp. 367-391, 1999.

A.F. Bobick and S.S. Intille, "Large occlusion stereo," International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 33, pp. 181-200, 1999.

Invited publications in refereed journals

K. Larson, S. Intille, T. J. McLeish, J. Beaudin, and R. E. Williams, "Open source building — reinventing places of living," BT Technology Journal, vol. 22, pp. 187-200, 2004.

A.F. Bobick, S.S. Intille, W. Davis, F. Baird, C.S. Pinhanez, L.W. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, A. Schütte, and A. Wilson, "The KidsRoom (sidebar)," Communications of the ACM, 43(3), March 2000.

Book chapters

S. M. Nusser, S. S. Intille, and R. Maitra, "Emerging technologies and next generation intensive longitudinal data collection," in Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data, T.A. Walls and J.L. Schafer, Eds. New York: Oxford, 2006. 

S. S. Intille, "Technological innovations enabling automatic, context-sensitive ecological momentary assessment," in The Science of Real-Time Data Capture: Self-Report in Health Research, A. A. Stone, S. Shiffman, A. A.A., and L. Nebeling, Eds.: Oxford University Press, 2005. In press.

Paper presentations at refereed conferences

P. Kaushik, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Observations from a case study on user adaptive reminders for medication adherence," in Proceedings of Pervasive Health, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2008. To appear.

E. M. Tapia, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Portable wireless sensors for object usage sensing in the home: Challenges and practicalities," in Proceedings of the European Ambient Intelligence Conference. vol. LNCS 4794 Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 2007, pp. 19-37.

J. S. Beaudin, S. S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia, R. Rockinson, and M. Morris, "Context-sensitive microlearning of foreign language vocabulary on a mobile device," in Proceedings of the European Ambient Intelligence Conference. vol. LNCS 4794 Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag 2007, pp. 55-72.

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, W. Haskell, K. Larson, J. Wright, A. King, and R. Friedman, "Real-time recognition of physical activities and their intensities using wireless accelerometers and a heart rate monitor " in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers: IEEE Press, 2007.

B. Logan, J. Healey, Matthai Philipose, E. Munguia Tapia, and S. Intille, "A long-term evaluation of sensing modalities for activity recognition," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitious Computing, vol. LNCS 4717. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2007, pp. 483–500.

J. Nawyn, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Embedding behavior modification strategies into a consumer electronics device: a case study," in Proceedings of UbiComp 2006, vol. LNCS 4206, P. Dourish and A. Friday, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 297-314.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, E. Munguia Tapia, J. Beaudin, P. Kaushik, J. Nawyn, and R. Rockinson, "Using a live-in laboratory for ubiquitous computing research," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006, vol. LNCS 3968, K. P. Fishkin, B. Schiele, P. Nixon, and A. Quigley, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 349-365.

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, L. Lopez, and K. Larson, "The design of a portable kit of wireless sensors for naturalistic data collection," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006, vol. LNCS 3968, K. P. Fishkin, B. Schiele, P. Nixon, and A. Quigley, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006, pp. 117-134.

J. Ho and S. S. Intille, "Using context-aware computing to reduce the perceived burden of interruptions from mobile devices," in Proceedings of CHI 2005 Connect: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 909 - 918.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, J. S. Beaudin, J. Nawyn, E. Munguia Tapia, P. Kaushik, "A living laboratory for the design and evaluation of ubiquitous computing technologies," in Extended Abstracts of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 1941-1944.

M. Morris, S. S. Intille, and J. S. Beaudin, "Embedded Assessment: overcoming barriers to early detection with pervasive computing," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2005, H. W. Gellersen, R. Want, and A. Schmidt, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 333-346.

J. Beaudin, S. Intille, and E. Munguia Tapia, "Lessons learned using ubiquitous sensors for data collection in real homes," in Extended Abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1359-1362. 

L. Bao and S. S. Intille, "Activity recognition from user-annotated acceleration data," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004, vol. LNCS 3001, A. Ferscha and F. Mattern, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 1-17. 

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Activity recognition in the home setting using simple and ubiquitous sensors," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004, vol. LNCS 3001, A. Ferscha and F. Mattern, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 158-175.

S. S. Intille, L. Bao, E. Munguia Tapia, and J. Rondoni, "Acquiring in situ training data for context-aware ubiquitous computing applications," in Proceedings of CHI 2004 Connect: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1-9.

S.S. Intille and K. Larson, "Designing and evaluating technology for independent aging in the home," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, December 2004. 

S. S. Intille, C. Kukla, R. Farzanfar, and W. Bakr, "Just-in-time technology to encourage incremental, dietary behavior change," in Proceedings of the AMIA 2003 Symposium: Wiley, 2003.

S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia J. Rondoni, J. Beaudin, C. Kukla, S. Agarwal, and L. Bao, "Tools for studying behavior and technology in natural settings," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003: Ubiquitous Computing, vol. LNCS 2864, A.K. Dey, A. Schmidt, and J.F. McCarthy, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, 2003, pp. 157-174.

S. S. Intille, J. Rondoni, C. Kukla, I. Anacona, and L. Bao, "A context-aware experience sampling tool," in Proceedings of CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003, pp. 972-973.

S.S. Intille, "Change blind information display for ubiquitous computing environments," in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Ubiquitous Computing, G. Borriello and L.E. Holmquist, Eds., vol. LNCS 2498. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002, pp. 91-106. 

S. S. Intille, C. Kukla, and X. Ma, "Eliciting user preferences using image-based experience sampling and reflection," in Proceedings of the CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2002, pp. 738-739.

S. S. Intille and A. F. Bobick, "A framework for recognizing multi-agent action from visual evidence," in Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1999, pp. 518-525.

S.S. Intille and A.F. Bobick, "Visual recognition of multi-agent action using binary temporal relations," in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 1999, pp. 56-62.

S. S. Intille, J. Davis, and A. Bobick, "Real-time closed-world tracking," in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: IEEE Press, 1997, pp. 697-703.

S. S. Intille and A. F. Bobick, "Closed-world tracking," in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computer Vision: IEEE Press, 1995, pp. 672-678.

S. S. Intille and A. F. Bobick, "Incorporating intensity edges in the recovery of occlusion regions," in Proceedings of the 12th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 1: IEEE Press, pp. 674-677.

S. S. Intille and A. F. Bobick, "Disparity-space images and large occlusion stereo," in Proceedings of the Third European Conference on Computer Vision, vol. 2, J.-O. Eklundh, Ed. Secaucus, NJ: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1994, pp. 179-186.

Invited papers for keynotes at refereed conferences

S.S. Intille, "The goal: smart people, not smart homes,"  in Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Homes and HealthTelematics, IOS Press, 2006.

S.S. Intille, K. Larson, "Designing and evaluating supportive technology for homes," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics 2003, IEEE Press, 2003.

Demo presentations at refereed conferences

J.S. Beaudin, S. S. Intille, and M. Morris, "MicroLearning on a Mobile Device," in Proceedings of UbiComp 2006 Extended Abstracts (Demo Program), 2006, to appear.

E. M. Tapia, N. Marmasse, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "MITes: wireless portable sensors for studying behavior," in Proceedings of Extended Abstracts Ubicomp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing, 2004.

Video presentations at refereed conferences

J. Nawyn, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Embedding behavior modification strategies into a consumer electronics device [video]," in Proceedings of UbiComp 2006 Extended Abstracts (Video Program), 2006, to appear.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, J. Beaudin, E. Munguia Tapia, P. Kaushik, J. Nawyn, and T.J. McLeish, "The PlaceLab: a live-in laboratory for pervasive computing research (Video)," in Proceedings of Pervasive 2005 Video Program, May, 2005.

E. Munguia Tapia, S.S. Intille, J. Rebula,  S. Stoddard, " Ubiquitous video communication with the perception of eye contact," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003 Video Program, 2003.

S.S. Intille and V. Lee, "The language learning tool: an example of a ubiquitous, persistent, user interface," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003 Video Program, 2003. 

Abstract presentations at refereed conferences

S. Intille, J. Herigon, W. Haskell, A. King, J. A. Wright, and R. F. Friedman, "Intensity levels of occupational activities related to hotel housekeeping in a sample of minority women," in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2006.

S.S. Intille, "Context-aware technology for studying everyday behavior in natural settings." Abstract presented in Symposium on Leaving the Lab: Telemetric Monitoring for Behavioral Medicine Research. 2005 Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA, April, 2005. 

S. S. Intille, "Ubiquitous computing technology for just-in-time motivation of behavior change," in Proceedings of Medinfo. vol. 11(Pt) 2, 2004, pp. 1434-7.

S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia, and L. Bao, "Real-time physical activity recognition using multiple wireless accelerometers." Abstract presented at the Scientific Meeting on Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Closing Gaps in the Science of Accelerometry, University of North Carolina, December, 2004.
Winner of a best poster award.  Abstract to appear in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Journal.  

S.S. Intille, "New technology for studying everyday behavior in natural settings." Abstract presented in Symposium on Real World Psychology: Exploring People’s Everyday Lives. Proceedings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting, January 2004.

Paper presentations at refereed workshops

S.S. Intille, "Cognition for Healthy People: Some Challenges," in Proceedings of the Assisted Cognition Workshop, 2007. 

S.S. Intille, "Ubiquitous computing technology for just-in-time motivation of behavior change," in Proceedings of the UbiHealth Workshop, 2003. 

S.S. Intille, K. Larson, and C. Kukla, "Just-in-time context-sensitive questioning for preventative health care," in Proceedings of the AAAI 2002 Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, AAAI Technical Report WS-02-02. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2002.

S. S. Intille and A. F. Bobick, "Recognizing team plans from visual primitives," in Proceedings of the IJCAI'99 Workshop on Team Modeling and Plan Recognition, 1999.

S.S. Intille and A.F. Bobick, "Representation and visual recognition of complex, multi-agent actions using belief networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on the Interpretation of Visual Motion, June 1998. Also appears in Proceedings of the ECCV '98 Workshop on the Perception of Human Action, June 1998.

A. F. Bobick, S. S. Intille, J. W. Davis, F. Baird, L. W. Campbell, Y. Ivanov, C. S. Pinhanez, A. Schütte, and A. Wilson, "Design decisions for interactive environments: evaluating the KidsRoom," in Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Environments, AAAI Technical Report SS-98-02, 1998, pp. 7-16.

A.F. Bobick, J.W. Davis, and S.S. Intille, "The KidsRoom: an example application using a deep perceptual interface," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, M. Turk, ed., October 1997, pp. 1-4.

S.S. Intille and A.F. Bobick, "Exploiting contextual information for tracking by using closed-worlds," in Proceedings of the Workshop on Context-Based Vision, 1995, pp. 87-98.

Ph.D. thesis (September 1999)

Title: Visual recognition of multi-agent action
Advisor:
   Professor Aaron Bobick
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, USA
Additional committee members:
    Professor Eric Grimson
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI Lab, USA
    Professor Hans-Hellmut Nagel
    University of Karlsruhe, Germany

In this work, a framework for the representation and visual recognition of multi-agent action is presented, implemented, and evaluated. This project's thesis can be stated most succinctly as follows: that many interesting multi-agent actions can be represented and recognized from noisy perceptual data using visually grounded goal-based primitives and explicit but low-order reasoning about temporal relationships. A primary contribution of this work is an analysis of the issues and tradeoffs involved when selecting a representation for multi-agent collaborative action recognition. The input to the system described in this work is trajectories of object movements obtained from real video scenes.

Technical reports

S.S. Intille and A.M. Intille, "New challenges for privacy law: wearable computers that create electronic digital diaries," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, MIT Dept. of Architecture House_n Project Technical Report, 2003.

S.S. Intille, C. Kukla, B. Stigge, and L. Bonanni, "Merging the physical and digital in ubiquitous computing environments," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, MIT Dept. of Architecture House_n Project Technical Report, 2001.

R. Khalaf and S. S. Intille, "Improving multiple people tracking using temporal consistency," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, MIT Dept. of Architecture House_n Project Technical Report, 2001.

Other papers

S.S. Intille and A.F. Bobick, "Le suivi visuel à l'aide des mondes clos," in Proceedings of the Informatique et Sports Collectifs, 1999, pp. 31-56. (translated to French).

S.S. Intille, "Sport online," http://www.media.mit.edu/~intille/papers/sp.html, May 1996.

S. S. Intille, "Tracking Using a Local Closed-World Assumption," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1994. Advisor: Prof. Aaron F. Bobick.

Invited participation as expert panelist/consultant

National Academies Keck Futures Conference on Extending the Human Healthspan
Selected participant
Irvine, CA, November, 2007

Panel: New Technologies for Energy Balance Measurement and Intervention Research
Food and Nutrition Conference & Exposition (FNCE)
Philadelpia, PA, October 2, 2007

Health e-Technologies Initiative RWJF Childhood Obesity Grant
Expert panelist
Summer and Fall, 2006

UCSD e/Balance Phase 1 NCI SBIR 
Consultant
2005-2006

Invited talks

Invited Talk: Emerging Mobile Technologies for Health Monitoring
In session: New Technologies for Energy Balance Measurement and Intervention Research
Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo (FNCE)
Philadelphia, PA, October 2, 2007

Invited Talk: Using Technology to Support Preventive Care Outside of the Hospital
HomeCentric Industrial Liason Conference
Cambridge, MA, September 25, 2007

Instructor: 3rd IEEE-EMBS International Summer School and Symposium on Medical Devices and Biosensors
Boston, MA, September 4-5, 2006

Create New Business Models By Making Health Fun
Healthcare Unbound: A Conference & Exhibition on the Convergence of Consumer and Healthcare Technologies
Boston, MA, July 17-18, 2006.

Keynote: The Goal: Smart People, Not Smart Homes
International Conference on Smart Homes & Beyond (ICOST 2006)
Belfast, UK, June, 2006.

Invited Talk: Using Ubiquitous Computing Technology to Create Smart People, Not Smart Homes
Duke University
Durham, NC, April 10, 2006.

Using a Live-In Laboratory to Study Novel Proactive Health Technologies
Distributed Diagnostics and Home Healthcare Conference 
Washington, DC, April 3, 2006.

Invited Talk: The PlaceLab
Harvard University AI Group
Cambridge, MA, March 16, 2006.

Gilbreth Lecture: Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Encourage Aging in Place
National Academy of Engineering Annual Meeting
Washington, DC, October 9, 2005.

Invited Demonstration of Technology
National Commission for Quality Long-term Care
Washington, DC, July 22, 2005.

Consumer-Based Health Tracking Using Sensor-Enabled Homes and Phones
Smart Homes and Smart Phones: Emerging Clinical and Business Models
Boston, MA, July 12, 2005.

Keynote Address: Proactive Health Systems for the Home Using Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing 
Healthcare Unbound: A Conference & Exhibition on the Convergence of Consumer and Healthcare Technologies
Boston, MA, July 11-12, 2005.

Tools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware, Proactive Health Systems for the Home
Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, OR, April 9, 2005

Innovative Technology to Advance eHealth Measurement and Methods
Critical Issues in eHealth Research Conference
Sponsored by the National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD, June 9-10, 2005

Real-Time, Automatic Activity Recognition from Accelerometers: Challenges and Health Applications
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, March 21, 2005

Tools for Studying and Developing Just-in-Time Proactive Health Technologies
Tools for Studying Context-Aware Interfaces (tentative title)
Stanford Medical School
February 9, 2005

Tools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware Systems for the Home
Intel Research Berkeley
February 8, 2005

Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Encourage Aging in Place
Japan-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
(Sponsored, in part, by the National Academy of Engineering)
Keihanna, Japan, November 2004

Panel: Video Visions of the Future: A Critical Review
With Eric Bergman, Arnold Lund, Hugh Dubberly, Bruce Tognazzini
CHI 2004
Vienna Austria, April 2004

Keynote Address: Ubiquitous Computing Technologies to Encourage Aging in Place
Healthcare Unbound: A Conference & Exhibition on the Convergence of Consumer and Healthcare Technologies
Cambridge, MA, July 8-9, 2004.

Tools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware Systems for the Home
IBM Research
Yorktown, NY, May 24, 2004.

Technology Demonstration
Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) Congressional Demo
Washington, DC, March, 2004

Technological Innovations Real-Time Data Capture
National Cancer Institute Working Group Meeting: Capturing Physical Activity and Diet in Real-Time
Arlington, VA, January 22, 2004.

Tools for Studying and Motivating Health Behavior Change in Natural Settings
Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA, December 17, 2003.

Tools for Studying and Developing Context-Aware Systems for the Home
Boston University
Boston, MA, November 6, 2003.

Technological Innovations
The Science of Real-Time Data Capture Self-Reports in Health Research Conference, Charleston, SC, September 2003.

Keynote: Designing and Evaluating Technology for Supportive Homes
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Kobe, Japan, July 2003

Preventive Health Care
eHealth Institute's eHealth Developers' Summit, Tempe, Arizona, November 2002

Future Computing Environments and Proactive Health Care
Center for Future Health, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, October 2002

The House_n Living Laboratory
Greater Boston SIGCHI, September 2001

Designing Perceptually-Based Interactive Environments
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 1999.

Adaptive Interfaces Entrepreneurial Workshop Case Presentation
The Harvard Cyberposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 1998.

Sports and Technology: Dynamic Scene Understanding
The National Institute of Sport and Physical Education (INSEP), Campus Olympique, Paris, France, June 1996.

Workshop organization (reviewed)

Caring Machines: AI in Eldercare
with Timothy Bickmore, Henry Kautz, Karen Haigh, and Richard Simpson
AAAI Fall Symposium
Washington, DC, November 2005

HCI Challenges in Health Assessment
with Margaret Morris 
CHI Workshop
Portland, OR, April 2005

Home Technologies to Keep Elders Connected
with Jay Lundell and Margaret Morris
CHI Workshop
Vienna Austria, April 2004

Invited workshop participation

Home of the Future ... Healthcare Without Walls
CIMIT Senior Advisory Think Tank
Cambridge, MA 2004

MGPO Office of of the Future
CIMIT
Cambridge, MA 2004

MIT/GM HVI Workshop
Detroit, MI, October 2003

Grants

Principal Investigator, NSF "CRI:CRD Development of Longitudinal Home Activity Datasets as a Shared Resource." Three year study to develop portable sensor tools for amd provide shared datasets on home activity to the research community interested in activity detection and health applications for the home setting. 2007.

Principal Investigator, NIH "Enabling Population-Scale Physical Activity Measurement on Common Mobile Phones" Four year study on to create novel health monitoring tools for mobile phones. 2007. Includes a supplement to study, "Extensible Platform for Implementing Experience Sampling on Mobile Phones." 2007.

Principal Investigator, Intel "AIM Proposal: End-User-Driven Training of Activity Recognition Algorithms" Three year study on context-aware sensing applied towards proactive health care. 2007.

MIT Principal Investigator, NIH "Physical activity energy expenditure and adolescent obesity." Collaboration with Vanderbilt University where House_n sensors are being provided to Vanderbilt researchers for energy expenditure measurement experiments. 2007.

MIT Principal Investigator, National Alliance for Autism, "Telemetric Assessment of Movement Stereotypy in Children with ASD". A 2 year study. 2006 (Lead: Groden Center, Rhode Island. Collaborator: University of Rhode Island).

MIT Principal Investigator Autism Speaks/National Alliance for Autism Research grant award, "Telemetric Assessment of Movement Stereotypy in Children with ASD." A two year study. 2006 (Lead: Groden Center; collaborator: University of Rhode Island).  

Principal Investigator Microsoft Digital Memories (Memex) one-year grant award "Integration of Memex and PlaceLab Datasets for Personal Investigations of Health and Living Patterns". A one-year study.  

MIT Principal Investigator, NIH "Just in Time Health Information for Exercise Adoption". A two year study. 2005 (Lead: Northeastern University. Collaborator: Harvard University) 

MIT Principal Investigator, UNC School of Public Health "Development of an Objective Measure of Television Watching". A one year study. 2005 (Lead: University of North Carolina School of Public Health) 

MIT Principal Investigator, NIH "Context-Sensitive Measurement of Physical Activity". A two year study. 2004 (Lead: Boston Medical. Collaborator: Stanford Medical)

Principal Investigator, Intel "AIM Proposal: Detecting Idle Moments for Proactive Health Activities Using Personal and Environmental Sensors and Interfaces." Three year study on context-aware computing for proactive health care. 2003.

Principal Investigator, NSF "ITR: Detecting Activity in Homes with Ubiquitous Sensing to Support Aging in Place". A two year study. 2003

IBM Faculty Award. To investigate ubiquitous computing technology. 2003.Principal Investigator, NSF "ITR/PE: Using context-recognition for preventative medicine in the home". A two year, collaborative study with BU Medical. 2001. 

Principal Investigator, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Measuring and Motivating Stair Use in Public Spaces." 2002.  

 Selected Projects

MITes.  Portable sensors for in-home ubiquitous computing research. 

PlaceLab, an MIT House_n and TIAX LLC initiative. A unique live-in residential observational facility for studying people and technology in the context of the home. The environment, which is being used a variety of ubiquitous computing and proactive health experiments, opened in 2004. 

Context-sensitive experience sampling. Development of new ecological momentary assessment techniques that use activity detection to provide new tools for ubiquitous computing and health research. The CAES project is open source and being used by other researchers.   

House_n prototype environment. A collaboration with House_n students that includes vision systems to track people in a room and track objects on a "digital table," a ubiquitous display device, and visual tracking of laser pointer input. The environment is being used as a research platform to study ubiquitous computing, sensing technologies, and technologies for motivating behavior change.

The KidsRoom: An Interactive, Narrative Environment. Chief architect (with J. Davis). A perceptually-based, interactive environment using computer vision technology to track people and recognize human action. The system explored how the context of a story can be used to improve vision recognition algorithms and how perceptual recognition and automatic control of an environment can be used to design interactive experiences that do not require users to wear any special sensors, displays, or clothing. (http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/kidsroom/) A simplified version of the system was constructed by NearLife (http://www.nearlife.com) for Britain's Millennium Dome 2000 event.

Computers Watching Football. System for the automatic annotation of video of football plays. Used to study problems and test algorithms in multi-agent action recognition and tracking. (http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/football)

Inducting Indy (with A. Wilson). A demonstration of a software agent that learns to recognize activity in a video game environment. Using video game environments may provide an interesting domain for some types of action recognition research and a platform for class projects on recognition. (http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/~intille/inducting_indy/)

 Teaching and Advising Experiences

Courses

4.208: Designing Persuasive Environments and Technologies, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004
A new multi-disciplinary graduate seminar course on the development of computer technologies and ubiquitous computing environments that measure and motivate behavior change. 

4.208: User Interface Design Studio, Fall 2001, Fall 2000
A new undergraduate and graduate course for computer scientists, engineers, architects, and designers teaching methods of user interface design applied to next-generation physical and digital environments and future interactive user interfaces.

4.185: Home/Community of the Future, Fall 1999
Co-taught with K. Larson. Multi-disciplinary graduate seminar. Taught sessions on technology and computational sensing. 

Advising

Current co-advising: Emmanuel Munguia Tapia (MAS Ph.D.),  Randy Rockinson (MAS S.M.), Kenneth Cheung (Arch S.M.), Manu Gupta (MAS S.M.)

M.Eng. thesis advisor: Louis Lopez (EECS, 2005), Joyce Ho (EECS, 2004), Jacob Hyman (EECS, 2003), Ling Bao (EECS, 2003), John Rondoni (EECS, 2003), Reid Williams (EECS, 2003), Neil Chungfat (EECS, 2002)

M.Eng. thesis reader (technical advisor): Rania Khalaf (EECS, 2001)

M.S. thesis co-advisor and reader: Jason Nawyn (MAS, 2005), Pallavi Kausik (MAS, 2005), Emmanuel Munguia Tapia (MAS, 2003), Joseph Su (MechE, 2001), Byron Stigge (Arch, 2001)

M.S. thesis reader: Karen Liu (MAS, 2004)

Ph.D. Committee: Ari Benbasat (MAS, 2004)

Visiting or special students: Till Pieper (2006), Jon Lin (2002), Joachim Bottger (2000)

MIT EECS Senior projects: Pamela Hollingsworth (EECS 2006), Bill Walsh (EECS 2006), Alex Mekelburg (MechE, 2005)

MIT undergraduate research students: David Wen (2007), Aiko Nakano (2006), Katie Zarroli (2006), Eleojo Ocholi (2005-6), Melinda Tang (2005), Leevar Williams (2005-6), Mikala Streeter (2006), Kevin Luu (2005), Qian Wang (2005), Dan Guarda (2004), Amanda Seybold (2004), Christina Hawkes (2004), Armando Valdes Samaniego (2003), Jesse Lacika (2003), Michael Ehrenberg (2003), Vivienne Lee (2002-3), Peter Sung (2003), Sachin Gupta (2003), Tian He (2003), Alan Mcconnel (2003), Waseem Bakr (2002-3), Isaac Rosmarin (2002), Folu Okunseinde (2001-2002), Brian Theisen (2001), Jacob Kitz (2000), Anthony Hui (1999), Kamal Mokeddem (1998), Qian Wang and Nick Lesica (1997-98), Ann Bui and Andreas Argyriou (1995), and Salil Pitroda (1994).

Internships: David Cheff (2005-2006), Evelyn Kapusta (2003), Isabel Ancona (2002), Meghann Evershed (2002), Suzanne Seale (2002)

Peer-reviewed seminar courses

SIGGRAPH half-day course: "Building Interactive Spaces" (with C. Pinhanez), Summer 2003. 

SIGGRAPH full-day course: "Building Interactive Spaces" (with C. Pinhanez), Summer 2002. 

Seminars

Independent Activities Period '04
Visions of the Future: Screening and Making Concept Videos
(http://www.media.mit.edu/~intille/teaching/IAP04/IAP04.htm).

Independent Activities Period '03
Movie Making: Inventing the Future of Ubiquitous Computing
(http://web.media.mit.edu/~intille/teaching/IAP03/iap03.htm).

Independent Activities Period '02
Designing a User Interface "Age Suit"
(http://websis.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-4398.html).

Independent Activities Period '01
Hack a Home of the Future Computer Interface

Independent Activities Period '00 lunchtime seminar series
Inventing a Home of the Future  

Other teaching experiences

Taught occasional graduate seminar class meetings. (1993-1999)

Developed preliminary syllabi for proposed MIT freshman seminar courses (1996).

Tutored small groups of undergraduates in introductory computer science, University of Pennsylvania (1991-92).

Selected as a residential advisor  (1990-1992).  Organized educational, cultural, and social programming for a floor of 80 students. Other responsibilities included dispute resolution and counseling.

Engineering Committee Representative, University of Pennsylvania, (1991-92). Undergraduate student representative on faculty committee investigating ways to improve teaching. Introduced several proposals.

Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, University of Pennsylvania (1991-92). Advanced proposals to the administration for improving undergraduate academic and residential life.

 Non-Academic Interests

Entrepreneurial activities, cooking, hiking and other outdoor activities, clicker training, and exploring Boston and surroundings.

 Personal

Citizenship: United States of America