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Mike Winter. "Inventing and Prototyping Social Devices". Talk or presentation, 5, February, 2008.

Abstract
Where is the "House of the Future" and why are embedded systems so lonely? In an effort to answer these questions, Stupid Fun Club is exploring social appliances (appliance to human and appliance to appliance). Enabling technologies are: embedded controllers, cheap sensors, powerful networking, practical speech recognition and quality text to speech. Areas to be discussed: Real-time data acquisition, debugging complex systems, Zigbee appliance communication standard and clear text APIs. Also covered will be appliance companionship, personalities, learning, gossiping and lying. Developer development will be explored: reading material for the engineer, the fun of failing, Google Lunar Prize, Pleo the dinosaur, blinky lights, pretty faces, Zeno the robot kid, Gadgetoff, Hollywood, Brian Eno, Tom Waits, "what are the kids doing?", and hanging out in Oakland with Colt 45 and MoonBot.

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  Mike Winter. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/384.html"><i>Inventing
  and Prototyping Social Devices</i></a>, Talk or
  presentation,  5, February, 2008.

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  Mike Winter. "Inventing and Prototyping Social Devices".
  Talk or presentation,  5, February, 2008.

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  @presentation{Winter08_InventingPrototypingSocialDevices,
      author = {Mike Winter},
      title = {Inventing and Prototyping Social Devices},
      day = {5},
      month = {February},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {Where is the "House of the Future" and why are
                embedded systems so lonely? In an effort to answer
                these questions, Stupid Fun Club is exploring
                social appliances (appliance to human and
                appliance to appliance). Enabling technologies
                are: embedded controllers, cheap sensors, powerful
                networking, practical speech recognition and
                quality text to speech. Areas to be discussed:
                Real-time data acquisition, debugging complex
                systems, Zigbee appliance communication standard
                and clear text APIs. Also covered will be
                appliance companionship, personalities, learning,
                gossiping and lying. Developer development will be
                explored: reading material for the engineer, the
                fun of failing, Google Lunar Prize, Pleo the
                dinosaur, blinky lights, pretty faces, Zeno the
                robot kid, Gadgetoff, Hollywood, Brian Eno, Tom
                Waits, "what are the kids doing?", and hanging out
                in Oakland with Colt 45 and MoonBot.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/384.html}
  }
  

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