CSE logo University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
 UW MSR Institute Schedule 2009
  CSE Home   About Us    Search    Contact Info 

 Home
 Schedule
 Abstracts & Bios
 Breakout Topics
 Attendees
 Photos
 Contact Information
 Previous Institutes
MSSI
   

Dates of Institute @ Semiahmoo Resort


Locations (Floor Plan)

  • Technical meetings will be in the Victoria Room on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday.
  • Breakfasts and Lunches will be in the Pierside Restaurant.
  • Dinners will be held in the following locations: On Sunday, dinner will be in the Victoria Room. On Monday, dinner will be on the Seaview Terrace. On Tuesday and Wednesday, dinner will be in the Pierside Restaurant.

Sunday, July 26

6:30-9:30 pm Opening reception and dinner
Hosted by Rico Malvar, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Redmond (Victoria Room)

Monday, July 27

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-9:30 am Welcome and introductions
David Wetherall and Ratul Mahajan (Victoria)
9:30-10:30 am A Peek at the Problem (Victoria)
"Overcoming the Barriers of Delivering the Internet to the Television: Where Do We Stand After 15 Years?" (Brendan Traw) (20 min)
"Diagnosing Home Network Misconfigurations Using Shared Knowledge" (Geoff Voelker) (20 min)
"Problem Solving Probes: Uncovering Conceptual Disconnects with Networked Ensembles" (David McDonald) (20 min)
10:30-11:00 am Break
11:00 am-12:30 pm Usability and System Design (Victoria)
"Interaction and Infrastructure: Bridging the Gap Between Human-Computer Interaction and Networking" (Keith Edwards) (60 min)
"Why Usability Can't be Just Skin Deep" (Lujo Bauer) (20 min)
Discussion (10 min)
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (Pierside)
2:00-3:30 pm Helping Users Help Themselves (Victoria)
"Cracking the Black Box: User-Driven Context Recognition in the Home" (Neb Burns) (20 mins)
"Empowering Users by Developing Transparent Context-Models" (Tanzeem Choudhury) (20 mins)
"Boxes and arrows for the couch potato" (Ben Greenstein) (20 mins)
"Low-Level Tools for Diagnosing Wireless Problems" (Srini Seshan) (20 mins)
Discussion (10 mins)
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:00 pm Leave it to the Experts (Victoria)
"What Would Geek Squad Do?" (A.J. Brush) (20 mins)
"Better Living through Managed Private Virtual Machines" (Ramon Caceres) (20 mins)
"Do-it-for-me Home Network Management" (Dina Papagiannaki) (20 mins)
5:00-5:30 pm Breakout Planning (Breakout Leaders)
Breakout 1: User Experience - Bruce
Breakout 2: Architecture - Victor
Breakout 3: Privacy - Deborah
Breakout 4: Research Agenda - Haym
5:30-6:00 pm Break
6:00-8:00 pm Dinner (Seaview Terrace)

Tuesday, July 28

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:40 am What is Different about the Home? (Victoria)
"What Could New-Era Corporate Systems Management Mean for the Home?" (Anders Vinberg) (60 mins)
"Unraveling the Technological Knot: It's Not Just about Usability or Technological Innovation" (Erika S. Poole) (20 mins)
"Securing Technologies in the Home: Is There Anything New?" (Tadayoshi Kohno) (20 mins)
10:40-11:10 am Break
11:10 am-12:30 pm New Interfaces for Home Network Management (Victoria)
"Direct Manipulation and the Home Network" (Mark Baugher) (20 mins)
"Visualizations for Helping People Manage Home Networks" (Jason Hong) (20 mins)
"A OneBox for the Home" (Srikanth Kandula) (20 mins)
"Wearable Dynamic Management of Distributed Domestic Utilities" (Joe Paradiso) (20 mins)
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (Pierside)
2:00-4:00 pm Breakout Groups III & IV in parallel with kayaking (half participants in each)
4:00-6:00 pm Breakout Groups I & II in parallel with kayaking (half participants in each)
6:00-6:30 pm Reconvene main session (Victoria Room)
6:30-7:00 pm Break
7:00-8:30 pm Dinner (Pierside)
8:30 pm continue break out sessions as needed (various locations)

Wednesday, July 29

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast (Pierside)
9:00-10:30 am Adapting to Users and Other Lessons Learned (Victoria)
"Supporting Architectural Design for Technological Homes through Activity Visualization" (Mario Romero) (20 mins)
"From Theory to Practice to Deployment" (Keshav) (20 mins)
"The understandability challenge in building diagnostic systems for non-experts" (Ratul Mahajan) (20 mins)
Discussion (10 mins)
10:30-11:00 am Break
11:00-12:30 am Breakout Groups Continue (various locations)
12:30-2:00 pm Lunch (Pierside)
2:00-3:30 pm Eye to the Future (Victoria)
"Bringing Sensing Systems to the Masses" (Shwetak Patel) (20 mins)
"An End to the Middle" (Colin Dixon) (20 mins)
"Rethinking Wireless Access for Future All-Wireless Homes" (Anmol Sheth) (20 mins)
"Domestic Networking as a Starting Point for Investigations about Human Network Interaction" (Rebecca Grinter) (20 mins)
Discussion (10 mins)
3:30-4:00 pm Break
4:00-5:00 pm Debriefing from Breakout Groups (15 min each group) (Victoria)
5:00-5:30 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps (Victoria)
5:30-6:00 pm Break
6:00-8:00 pm Farewell Dinner (Pierside)


Please check back for updates.

Last updated: 07/27/2009


CSE logo Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA  98195-2350
(206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX
[comments to Kay Beck-Benton]