Nitin Sawhney -- Projects and Publications (1996 - 2002)
Postscript, PDF and HTML versions of selected papers available.
Presentations
ThinkCycle Talks: Vision & Approach
Papers
- PhD Thesis Proposal (22 pages)
Open Collaborative Design: Understanding the Role of Online Tools and Social Incentives towards Sustainable Design and Learning. June 13, 2002. (PDF)
- TechKnowLogia Journal Paper (5 pages)
ThinkCycle: Sharing Distributed Design Knowledge for Open Collaborative Design. Published in TechKnowLogia, International Journal of Technologies for the Advancement of Knowledge and Learning, Volume 4, Issue 1, Jan-March 2002.
Presentations
- NiF and CHI Workshop Talks: Powerpoint Slides (March 22, 2000)
Papers
- PeTe Journal Paper (4 pages)
Paper submitted for special issue on "Situated Interaction and Context-Aware Computing" of the Springer Journal
Personal Technologies.
Adobe PDF -- (May 11th, 2000)
- CHI Workshop Paper (7 pages)
Presented at the Workshop on Situated Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing,
CHI 2000, April 3, 2000, The Hague, Netherlands.
Adobe PDF (March 18, 2000)
Press
- Wearables Conference Explores Fringes of Fashion, Technology - The MIT Tech, Oct. 21, 1997
These Computers Were Made For Wearing - The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 17, 1997
Presentations
- ISWC '98 Talk: Presentation at the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, PA. October 20, 1998.
- Ericsson Talk: Presentation at Ericsson Eurolabs Deutschland, Aachen, Germany. August 24th, 1998.
- ICAD '97 Talk: International Conference on Auditory Display, Xerox PARC, Nov. 5, 1997.
- News in the Future: NIF meeting, MIT Media Lab, May 21, 1997. Short presentation talk.
Related Papers
- ToCHI Journal Paper
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Nomadic Radio: Speech & Audio Interaction for Contextual Messaging in Nomadic Environments. To appear
in the special issue of ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (ToCHI) on the topic of Human Computer Interaction and Mobile
Systems. (June'2000) Abstract -- PDF
- ACM CHI '99 Paper
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Nomadic Radio: Scaleable and Contextual Notification for Wearable Audio Messaging. To appear in the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Pittsburgh, May 15-20, 1999.
- PUI '98 Workshop Paper
- Brian Clarkson, Nitin Sawhney and Alex Pentland. Auditory Context Awareness in Wearable Computing, Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces, San Francisco, Nov. 5-6, 1998. [ pdf ]
- ISWC '98 Paper
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Speaking and Listening on the Run: Design for Wearable Audio Computing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 19-20 October 1998. PDF
- M.S. Thesis
- Nitin Sawhney. Contextual Awareness, Messaging and Communication in Nomadic Audio Environments. Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, May 19, 1998. (122 pages) -- Abstract -- Acrobat PDF (1.7 MB)
- ICAD '97 Paper
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Design of Spatialized Audio in Nomadic Environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory Display, November 2-5, 1997, Palo Alto, CA. PDF
- ISWC '97 Poster
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Nomadic Radio: A Spatialized Audio Environment for Wearable Computing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computing, October 13-14, 1997, Cambridge, MA. PDF
Technical Reports
- Short TechNote
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Schmandt. Message Swatch: Coherent Visual and Auditory Displays.Compressed Postscript (82K)
- Technical Report
- Nitin Sawhney. Message Swatch: Temporal Representation for Information Augmentation. Technical Report for Intelligence Augmentation (MAS 963), Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, November, 1997. Compressed Postscript (994K)
- Technical Report
- Nitin Sawhney. Situational Awareness from Environmental Sounds. Technical Report for Modeling Adaptive Behavior (MAS 738), Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab, June 13, 1997. Compressed Postscript (91K)
- Media Lab Technical Report
- Deb Roy, Nitin Sawhney, Chris Schmandt, Alex Pentland. Wearable Audio Computing: A Survey of Interaction Techniques. Perceptual Computing Technical
Report #434, MIT Media Lab, April 1997.
Compressed Postscript (250K)
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Sandscapes
- ISEA '97 Paper and Installation
- Chris Dodge and Nitin Sawhney. Evolving Sandscapes: Emergent Traces of Being through Digital
Spaces and Tangible Elements. Submitted to ISEA '97, Sept. 1997.
- ACM CHI '97 Short Paper Submission
- Nitin Sawhney and Chris Dodge. Sandscapes: Expressing Emergent Temporal Patterns. Submitted to CHI '97, March 1997.
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Patent: "System for capturing and retrieving audio data and corresponding hand-written notes.". Lynn D. Wilcox, William N. Schilit, Nitin Sawhney, Joseph W. Sullivan and Timothy W. Bickmore. Xerox Corporation and Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd. Patent filed on March 20, 1997. International Patent granted in June 1998.
- ACM CHI'97 Long Paper
- Lynn Wilcox, Bill Schilit and Nitin Sawhney. Dynomite: A Dynamically Organized Ink and Audio Notebook. Proceedings of the ACM CHI '97: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, March 1997, pp 186-193. (Abstract)
- ACM CHI'97 Demonstration Paper
- Merging the benefits of paper notebooks with the power of computers in Dynomite, Bill Schilit,
Lynn Wilcox and Nitin Sawhney. Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI '97: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, March 1997, pp 22-23. (Abstract)
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- HyperCafe was selected as one of 27 international new media projects shown at the New Talent Pavilion at MILIA '97, Feb 9-12, 1997, Cannes, France. HyperCafe was featured in an recent article by Stephanie Malphettes in the French Newspaper le Monde, Feb 21, 1997. (English translation)
- ISEA '97 Installation
- Nitin Sawhney and David Balcom. HyperCafe: Narrative and Aesthetic Hypervideo. Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art, September 22-27, 1997.
- IEEE Multimedia Journal Article
- Nitin Sawhney, David Balcom and Ian Smith. Authoring and Navigating Video in Space and Time: An Approach Towards Hypervideo. To appear in the IEEE Multimedia Journal, Winter 1997.
- Georgia Tech M.S. Project Paper
- Nitin Sawhney. A Framework and Approach towards Hypervideo. Final M.S. Project Paper, Information Design and Technology Program, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. May 29, 1996.
- ACM Hypertext '96 Paper
- Nitin Sawhney, David Balcom and Ian Smith. HyperCafe: Narrative and Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo. Proceedings of Hypertext '96: Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext. March 1996. (Presentation Slides)
Recipient of the first Engelbart Best Paper Award at Hypertext '96 (March 20, 1996)
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Espace 2
- ACM CHI '96 Interactive Poster
- Nitin Sawhney and Arthur Murphy. Espace 2: An Experimental HyperAudio Environment. Proceedings of CHI '96, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 1996.
- ACM ASSETS '96 Long Paper Submission
- Nitin Sawhney and Arthur Murphy. Designing Audio Environments - Not Audio Interfaces. Paper submitted to ASSETS '96, The 2nd ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies, April 1996
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- ACM Multimedia '96 Paper
- Gregory D. Abowd, Chris Atkeson, Ami Feinstein, Cindy Hmelo, Rob Kooper,
Sue Long, Nitin Sawhney and Mikiya Tani. Teaching
and Learning as Multimedia Authoring: The Classroom 2000 Project. Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '96 Conference,
November 1996.
- GVU Technical Report
- Gregory D. Abowd, Chris Atkeson, Ami Feinstein, Yusuf
Goolamabbas, Cindy Hmelo, Scott Register, Nitin Sawhney and
Mikiya Tani. Classroom 2000: Enhancing Classroom Interaction and
Review. GVU Technical Report, April 1996.
- ACM CHI '96 Short Paper Submission
- Nitin Sawhney, Gregory D. Abowd and Chris Atkeson. Can
Electronic Notebooks Enhance the Classroom?. Submitted to CHI '96, April 1996.