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Random Walk and Lighting Control.,Aldrich, M., Badshah, A., Mayton, B., Paradiso, J.A., in in Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2013.

Human‐computer interaction for hybrid carving.,Zoran, Amit, Roy Shilkrot and Joseph A. Paradiso in in Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology UIST, 2013.

A Cuttable Multi-touch Sensor,S. Olberding, N.-W. Gong, J. Tiab, J. A. Paradiso, J. Steimle in in Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology UIST, 2013.

Inkjet-printed Conductive Patterns for Physical Manipulation of Audio Signals.,N.-W. Gong, A. Zoran and J. A. Paradiso in in Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology UIST, 2013.

WristQue: A personal sensor wristband.,Mayton, Brian D., Zhao, N., Aldrich, M., Gillian, N., Paradiso, Joseph A. in Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2013 IEEE International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,6, 2013.

Hybrid Basketry: Interweaving digital practice within contemporary craft.,Zoran, A., in In ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Gallery (SIGGRAPH '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2013.

FreeD – A Freehand Digital Sculpting Tool.,Zoran, Amit and Joseph A. Paradiso, in The 31th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (CHI '13). ACM, Paris, France, 2013 (Best Paper Award).

Spatialized Anonymous Audio for Browsing Sensor Networks Via Virtual Worlds ,Joliat, N.,Mayton, B., Paradiso, J.A., in The 19th international conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Lodz, Poland, 2013 .

Low-cost Sensor Tape for Environmental Sensing Based on Roll-to-roll Manufacturing Process, Gong, N-W., Wang, CY, and Paradiso, J.A., in 2012 IEEE SENSORS Conference, 2012.

Dense, Low-Power Sensor Network for Three-Dimensional Thermal Characterization of Large-Scale Atria Spaces, Gong, NW., Ware, L., Ray, S., Ware, G., Leida, B., Ren, T., London, P., Turza, A., Way, D., Glicksman, L. and Paradiso in IEEE SENSORS 2012 .

TRUSS: Tracking Risk with Ubiquitous Smart Sensing, Mayton, B., Dublon, G., Palacios, S., and Paradiso, J.A., in 2012 IEEE SENSORS Conference, 2012.

A Customizable Sensate Surface for Music Control, Gong, N-W, Zhao, N., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of NIME 2012, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2012, pp. 417-420.

The FreeD-A Handheld Digital Milling Device for Craft and Fabrication, Zoran, A. and Paradiso, J.A., in UIST '12, Oct 7-10, 2012.

Digito: A Fine-Grain Gesturally Controlled Virtual Musical Instrument, Gillian, N. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of NIME 2012, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2012 .

Patchwork: Multi-User Network Control of a Massive Modular Synthesizer, Mayton, B., Dublon, G., Joliat, N. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of NIME 2012, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2012 .

Pervasive Interaction, Paradiso, J.A., Pering, T. and Schmidt, A. in IEEE CS 2012 .

Automotive Pervasive Computing, Schmidt, A., Paradiso, J.A. and Noble, B. in IEEE CS, 2012.

The 3D Printed Flute: Digital Fabrication and Design of Musical Instruments, Zoran, A., in Journal of New Music Research 2011, Vol. 40, No.4, pp. 379-387, 2011.

A Platform for Manipulation and Examination of the Acoustic Guitar: The Chameleon Guitar, Zoran, A., Welch, S. and Hunt, W.D., in Applied Acoustics, 2011.

The Chameleon Guitar-Guitar with a Replaceable Resonator, Zoran, A. and Paradiso, J.A. in Journal of New Music Research, 2011.

Wearable Wireless Sensing for Sports and Ubiquitous Interactivity, Lapinski, M., Feldmeier, M. and Paradiso, J.A., in 2011 IEEE SENSORS Conference, 2011.

DoppelLab: Tools for Exploring and Harnessing Multimodal Sensor Network Data, Dublon, G., Pardue, L. S., Mayton, B., Swartz, N., Joliat, N., Hurst, P. and Paradiso, J.A., in 2011 IEEE SENSORS Conference, 2011.

Wireless Hand Gesture Capture Through Wearable Passive Tag Sensing, Bainbridge, R. and Paradiso, J.A., in 2011 International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2011), 2011.

A Mobile Interactive Robot for Gathering Structured Social Video, Reben, A. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of ACM Multimedia '11, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2011.

Leveraging Conductive InkjetTechnology to Build a Scalable and Versatile Surface for Ubiquitous Sensing, Gong, N.-W., Hodges, S, and Paradiso, J.A., In Proc. of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp '11), pp 45-54.

Methods for Measuring Work Surface Illuminance in Adaptive Solid State Lighting Networks, Lee, B., Aldrich, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. SPIE 8123, 81230V , San Diego CA, August 22, 2011.

Energy-efficient control of solid-state lighting, Paradiso, J.A., Aldrich, M., Zhao, N.,SPIE Newsroom, March 25 2011.

Ubicorder: A Mobile Device for Situated Interactions with Sensor Networks, Mittal, M.., and Paradiso, J.A., to appear in IEEE Sensors Journal, Special issue on Cognitive Sensor Networks, 2011.

Guest Editors' Introduction: Smart Energy Systems, Joseph Paradiso, Prabal Dutta, Hans Gellerson, Eve Schooler, IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, January-March 2011 (vol. 10 no. 1), pp. 11-12.

Personalized HVAC Control System, Feldmeier, M.., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of Internet of Things (IoT) 2010, Tokyo Japan, Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2010.

Dynamic Privacy Management in Pervasive Sensor Networks, Gong, N-W., Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) 2010, Malaga, Spain, 25-29 October 2010, pp. 96-106.

Multimedia Content Creation using Societal-Scale Ubiquitous Camera Networks and Human-Centric Wearable Sensing, Laibowitz, M., Gong, N-W.., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence Italy, 25-29 October 2010, pp. 571-580.

Energy Efficient Control of Polychromatic Solid-State Lighting Using a Sensor Network, Aldrich, M., Zhao, N., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. SPIE (OP10) 7784 , San Diego CA, August 1-5, 2010.

Experiences and Challenges in Deploying Potentially Invasive Sensor Systems for Dynamic Media Applications, in Proc. of the Cloud-Mobile Convergence for Virtual Reality Workshop (CMCVR 2010), Waltham MA, March 20, 2010.

ChainMail – A Configurable Multimodal Lining to Enable Sensate Surfaces and Interactive Objects, Mistree, B.F.T., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of the Fourth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, (TEI 2010), Cambridge MA, January 25-27, 2010, pp. 65-72.

Identifying and Facilitating Social Interaction with a Wearable Wireless Sensor Network, Paradiso, J.A., Gips, J., Laibowitz, M., Sadi, S., Merrill, D., Aylward, R., Maes, P., and Pentland, Springer Journal of Personal & Ubiquitous Computing, Volume 14, Number 2, February 2010, pp. 137-152.

Ubiquitous Sensor Network Navigator, Reben, A., Laibowitz, M., Nong, N-W, and Paradiso, J., in Human Nature, Proc. of Ars Electronica 2009, Hatje-Cantz (Austria), p. 340..

A Distributed Wearable, Wireless Sensor System for Evaluating Professional Baseball Pitchers and Batters, Lapinski, M., Berkson, E., Gill, T., Reinold, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2009), Linz, Austria, September 4-7, 2009, pp. 131-138

Metaphor and Manifestation – Cross Reality with Ubiquitous Sensor/Actuator Networks, Lifton, J., Laibowitz, M., Harry, D., Gong, N.W., Mittal, M. and Paradiso, J.A., IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, July-September 2009 (vol. 8 no. 3), pp. 24-33.

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Cross-Reality Environments, Paradiso, J.A., and Landay, J.A., IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 8, No. 3, July-September 2009, pp. 14-15.

Dual Reality: Merging the Real and Virtual, Lifton, J. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the First International ICST Conference on Facets of Virtual Environments (FaVE), Berlin, Germany, 27-29 July 2009.

Wearable Sensing for Dynamic Management of Dense Ubiquitous Media, Laibowitz, M., Gong, N-W., and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the Sixth International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2009), Berkeley, CA, June 3-5, 2009, pp. 3-8.

MusicGrip: A Writing Instrument for Music Control, Gong, N.W., Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J.A , in Proceedings of NIME 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2009, pp. 74-77.

Responsive Music Interfaces for Performance, Reben, A., Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J.A., inProceedings of NIME 2009, Pittsburgh, PA, June 4-6, 2009, pp. 37-38..

Energy Metering for Free: Augmenting Switching Regulators for Real-Time Monitoring, Prabal Dutta, Mark Feldmeier, Jay Taneja, Joseph Paradiso, and David Culler. In theInternational Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED'08) Design Contest, Bangalore, India. August 11-13, 2008. Design Contest Winner.

Gait Analysis Using a Shoe-Integrated Wireless Sensor System, Bamberg, S.J.M., Benbasat A.Y., Scarborough D.M., Krebs D.E., Paradiso J.A., IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, Vol. 12, No. 4, July 2008, pp. 413-423.

Guest Editors' Introduction: Hacking is Pervasive, Paradiso, J.A. Heidemann, J., and Zimmerman, T.G., IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, July-September 2008, pp. 13-15.

User Innovation and Hacking, Eric von Hippel and Joseph A. Paradiso, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, July-September 2008, pp. 66-69.

A Mobile Music Environment Using a PD Compiler and Wireless Sensors, Robert Jacobs, Mark Feldmeier, Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proceedings of NIME 2008, Genoa, Italy, September 10, June 5-7, 2008, pp. 193-196.

Energy Metering for Free: Augmenting Switching Regulators for Real-Time Monitoring, Dutta, P., Feldmeier, M., Paradiso, J., and Culler, D., in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), St. Louis, MO, 22-24 April 2008, pp. 283-294. Best Paper Award in Track on Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS)

Sensor Architectures for Interactive Environments, Paradiso, J.A., in Deleaney, K. (ed), Augmented Materials  & Smart Objects: Building Ambient Intelligence Through Microsystems Technologies, Chapter 3, Springer, 2008.

Guest Editors' Introduction: Implantable Electronics, Paradiso, J., Boriello, G., and Bonato, P., IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-March 2008, pp. 12-13.

CargoNet: A Low-Cost MicroPower Sensor Node Exploiting Quasi-Passive Wakeup for Adaptive Asychronous Monitoring of Exceptional Events, Mateusz Malinowski, Matthew Moskwa, Mark Feldmeier, Mathew Laibowitz, Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'07), November 6-9, 2007, Sydney, Australia, pp. 145 - 159. Winner of the Sensys 2007 Best Presentation Award

A Framework for the Automated Generation of Power-Efficient Classifiers for Embedded Sensor Nodes, Ari Y. Benbasat and Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'07), November 6-9, 2007, Sydney, Australia, pp. 219 - 232.

Distributed Acoustic Conversation Shielding: An Application of a Smart Transducer Network, Yasuhiro Ono, Joshua Lifton, Mark Feldmeier, Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Sensor/Actuator Networks (SANET 07), Montreal, Canada, September 10, 2007, pp. 27-34.

Tricorder: A mobile sensor network browser, Lifton, J., Mittal, M., Lapinski, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2007 conference, Mobile Spatial Interaction workshop, San Jose, CA, 28 April - 3 May 2007.

A Platform for Ubiquitous Sensor Deployment in Occupational and Domestic Environments, Lifton, J., Feldmeier, M., Ono, Y., Lewis, C., and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Cambridge, MA, 25-27 April 2007, pp. 119-127. Best Paper Award in Track on Sensor Platforms, Tools, and Design Methods (SPOTS)

A Compact, High-Speed, Wearable Sensor Network for Biomotion Capture and Interactive Media, Aylward, R. and Paradiso, J.A., Proc. of the Sixth International IEEE/ACM Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 07), Cambridge, MA, April 25-27, 2007, pp. 380-389.

An Interactive Music Environment for Large Groups with Giveaway Wireless Motion Sensors, Feldmeier, M. and Paradiso, J.A., Computer Music Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 50-67.

Groggy Wakeup - Automated Generation of Power-Efficient Detection Hierarchies for Wearable Sensors, Benbasat, A.Y. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2007), Aachen, Germany, March 26-28, 2007, pp. 59-64.

Wearable Communicator Badge: Designing a New Platform for Revealing Organizational Dynamics, Olguín Olguín, D., Paradiso, J.A., and Pentland, A., in the Proc. of Student Colloquium Proposals of the 10th International IEEE Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October 11-14, 2006, pp. 4-6

IMU Arrays: The Biomechanics of Baseball Pitching, Berkson E., Aylward R., Zachazewski, J, Paradiso J., Gill, T.J., in the Orthopaedic Journal at Harvard Medical School, Vol. 8, November 2006, pp. 90-94.

Systems for Human-Powered Mobile Computing, Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC2006), San Francisco, CA, July 24-26, 2006, pp. 645-650.

Sensemble: A Wireless, Compact, Multi-User Sensor System for Interactive Dance,
Ryan Aylward, and Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proc. of NIME 2006, The 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Paris, France, June 4-8, 2006, pp. 134-139.

Some Novel Applications for Wireless Inertial Sensors, Paradiso, J.A., in Proc. of NSTI Nanotech 2006, Vol. 3, Boston, MA, May 7-11, 2006, pp. 431-434.

A Compact, Wireless, Wearable Sensor Network for Interactive Dance Ensembles,
Ryan Aylward, S. Daniel Lovell, and Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proc. of BSN 2006, The IEEE International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 3-5, 2006, pp. 65-70.

A Sensor Network for Social Dynamics, Laibowitz, M., Gips, J., Aylward, R., Pentland, A., and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 06), Nashville, TN, April 19-21, 2006, pp. 483-491.

Wireless Sensor Node Localization Using Spectral Graph Drawing and Mesh Relaxation, Broxton, M., Lifton, J., and Paradiso, J.A., ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, January 2006, pp. 1-12.

An Ultra-Low Power, Optically-Interrogated Smart Tagging and Identification System,
Gerardo Barroeta Perez, Mateusz Malinoski, and Joseph A. Paradiso, in Proc. of Auto ID 2005, The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Automatic Identification Advanced Technologies, Buffalo, NY, October 17-18, 2005, pp. 187-192.

Parasitic Mobility for Pervasive Sensor Networks, Laibowitz, M. and Paradiso, J.A. In H. W. Gellersen, R. Want and A. Schmidt (eds): "Pervasive Computing", Third International Conference, PERVASIVE 2005, Munich, Germany, May 2005, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 255-278. Winner of Best Paper Award

A Compact Modular Wireless Sensor Platform, Benbasat, A.Y. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Los Angeles, CA, April 25-27, 2005, pp. 410-415.

Experiences and Directions in Pushpin Computing, Lifton, J., Broxton, M. and Paradiso, J.A., in Proceedings of the 2005 Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Los Angeles, CA, April 25-27, 2005, pp. 416-421.

Tracking and Characterizing Knocks Atop Large Interactive Displays, Paradiso, J.A. and Leo, C.-K., in Sensor Review (special issue on vibration and impact sensing), Vol. 25, No. 2, 2005, pp. 134-143.

Personalization, Expressivity, and Learnability of an Implicit Mapping Strategy for Physical Interfaces, Merrill, D. and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of CHI 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts, ACM Press, Portland, OR, April 2-7, 2005, pp. 2152-2161.

Sensate Media, Paradiso, J.A.,in Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 3, March 2005, p. 70.

Energy Scavenging for Mobile and Wireless Electronics, Paradiso, J.A. and Starner, T., IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2005, pp. 18-27.

Localizing a Sensor Network via Collaborative Processing of Global Stimuli, Broxton, M., Lifton, J. and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, Istanbul, Turkey, January 31 - February 2, 2005, pp. 321-332.

Human Generated Power for Mobile Electronics, Starner, T. and Paradiso, J.A., in Piguet, C. (ed), Low-Power Electronics, CRC Press, Chapter 45,2004, pp. 45-1 - 45-35.

Design of a Real-Time Adaptive Power Optimal Sensor System, Benbasat, A.Y. and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2004, Vienna, Austria, October 24-27, 2004, pp. 48-51.

Sensate Media - Multimodal Electronic Skins as Dense Sensor Networks, Paradiso, J.A., Lifton. J., and Broxton, M., BT Technology Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 2004, pp. 32-44.

Modular Synthesizer, Paradiso, J., in Stocker, G., and Schopf, C. (eds), Timeshift (Proc. of Ars Electronica 2004), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany, 2004, pp. 364-370.

Parasitic Mobility in Dynamically Distributed Sensor Networks, Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the First ACM Workshop on Applications of Mobile Embedded Systems (WAMES), June 6, 2004. http://lcawww.epfl.ch/luo/WAMES%202004.htm

Z-Tiles: Building Blocks for Modular, Pressure-Sensing Floorspaces, Richardson, B., Leydon, K., Fernstrom, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Extended Abstracts, Vienna, Austria, April 27-29, 2004, pp. 1529-1532.

Interactive Therapy with Instrumented Footwear, Paradiso, J.A., Morris, S.J., Benbasat, A.Y., Asmussen, E., in the Proc. of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Extended Abstracts, Vienna, Austria, April 27-29, 2004, pp. 1341-1343.

Giveaway Wireless Sensors for Large-Group Interaction, Feldmeier, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in the Proc. of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004), Extended Abstracts, Vienna, Austria, April 27-29, 2004, pp. 1291-1292.

The UbER-Badge, A Versatile Platform at the Juncture Between Wearable and Social Computing, Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J.A., in Fersha, A., Hortner, H., Kostis, G. (eds), Advances in Pervasive Computing, Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2004, pp.363-368.

Wearable Wireless Sensing for Interactive Media, Paradiso, J.A., invited paper given at the First International Workshop on Wearable & Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Imperial College, London, April 6-7, 2004. http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/vip/bsn_2004/home/index.html

Wireless Wearable Transceivers, Laibowitz, M., and Paradiso, J., Circuit Cellar #163 February 2004, pp. 28-39.

Current Trends in Electronic Music Interfaces - Guest Editors' Introduction, Paradiso, J.A., O’Modhrain S.,Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 32, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 345-349.

Electromagnetic Tagging for Electronic Music Interfaces, Paradiso, J.A., Pardue, L.S., Hsiao, K, Benbasat, A.,Y.,Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 32, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 395-409.

A Wireless Modular Sensor Architecture and its Application in On-Shoe Gait Analysis. Benbasat, A.Y., Morris, S.J, and Paradiso, J.A. In the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Sensors, October 21-24, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 1086-1091.

Sub-nanometer Displacement Sensing for the Nanogate. Ma, H., White, J., Paradiso, J., and Slocum, A. In the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Sensors, October 21-24, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 46-51.

Distributed Sensor Networks as Sensate Skin. Lifton, J., Broxton, M., and Paradiso, J.A. In the Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Sensors, October 21-24, Toronto, Ontario, pp. 743-747.

Tracking Contact and Free Gesture Across Large Interactive Surfaces, Joseph A. Paradiso, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 2003, pp. 62-68.

Dual-Use Technologies for Electronic Music Controllers: A Personal Perspective, Joseph A. Paradiso, Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME-03), May 22-24, 2003 (Invited Keynote Address), Montreal, Canada, pp. 228-234.

Development of distributed sensing systems of autonomous micro-modules, Barton, J., Delaney, K., Bellis, S., O'Mathuna, C., Paradiso, J.A., Benbasat, A., Proceedings of the IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference, May 27-30, 2003, pp. 1112-1118.

A Compact Wearable Sensor Package for Clinical Gait Monitoring S.J. Morris and J.A. Paradiso, Offspring Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 7-15, January 31, 2003.

From Tangibles to Toolkits and Chaos to Convection - Management and Innovation at Leading Design Organizations and Idea Labs Joseph A. Paradiso, Presented at the workshop on Managing as Designing: Creating a vocabulary for management education and research, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, June 14-15, 2002. To be Published, Stanford University Press. See the Workshop Site for a longer, earlier version.  

Performance Driver Information Systems, Enhancing the Fun-to-Drive Equation. Stephen J. Buckley, Joseph Pasek, Ari Y. Benbasat. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Congress on Transportation Electronics: Convergence 2002, SAE Press, Warrendale, October 2002.

Shoe-integrated sensor system for wireless gait analysis and real-time feedback Stacy J. Morris, Joseph A. Paradiso. Proceedings of the 2nd Joint IEEE EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) and BMES (the Biomedical Engineering Society) Conference, October, 2002, pp. 2468-2469.  

The FindIT Flashlight: Responsive Tagging Based on Optically Triggered Microprocessor Wakeup Hongshen Ma, Joseph A. Paradiso. in G. Borriello and L.E. Holmquist (Eds.): UbiComp 2002, LNCS 2498, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002, pp. 160-167. 

'ForSe FIElds' - Force Sensors for Interactive Environments, McElligott, L., Dillon, M., Leydon, K., Richardson, B., Fernstrom, M., Paradiso, J.A., in G. Borriello and L.E. Holmquist (Eds.): UbiComp 2002, LNCS 2498, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, October 2002, pp. 168-175.

Miniature Modular Wireless Sensor Networks, Barton, J., Kelaney, K., O'Mathuna, C., and Paradiso J.A., in L.E. Holmquist and P. Ljungstrand (Eds.): UbiComp 2002 Adjunct Proceedings, Viktoria Institute Press (Gothenburg Sweden), September 2002, pp. 25-26.

Large Group Musical Interaction using Disposable Wireless Motion Sensors Mark Feldmeier, Mateusz Malinowski, Joseph A. Paradiso, in the Proceedings of the ICMC 2002 Conference, International Computer Music Association, San Francisco CA, pp. 83-87, September 2002. 

Pushpin Computing System Overview: a Platform for Distributed, Embedded, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks Joshua Lifton, Deva Seetharam, Michael Broxton, Joseph Paradiso. in F. Mattern and M. Naghshineh (eds): Pervasive 2002, Proceedings of the Pervasive Computing Conference, Zurich Switzerland, 26-28 August 2002, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 139-151. 

The Interactive Window Joseph A. Paradiso, Che King Leo, Nicholas Yu, Marc Downie. In SIGGRAPH 2002, Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM Press, 2002, p. 79. 

Passive Acoustic Sensing for Tracking Knocks Atop Large Interactive Displays Joseph A. Paradiso, Che King Leo, Nisha Checka, Kaijen Hsiao. In the 2002 Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Volume 1, Orlando, Florida, June 11-14, pp. 521-527.

The Termenova: A Hybrid Free-Gesture Interface Leila Hasan, Nicholas Yu, Joseph A. Paradiso. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2002 (NIME-02) Conference, Dublin Ireland, May 24-26, 2002, pp. 122-127. 

Musical Navigatrics: New Musical Interactions with Passive Magnetic Tags Laurel S. Pardue, Joseph A Paradiso. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2002 (NIME-02) Conference, Dublin Ireland, May 24-26, 2002, pp. 168-169. 

The Edge of NIME - from Cult to Conference (organizer's introduction) Joseph A. Paradiso. In Proceedings of the New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2002 (NIME-02) Conference, Dublin Ireland, May 24-26, 2002, pp. iii-v. 

Diary of a Teenage Synth Hacker Joseph A. Paradiso, Forward to Kettlewell, B., Electronic Music Pioneers, ProMusic Press, Vallejo, CA, pp. 4-9, 2002.  

Passive Acoustic Knock Tracking for Interactive Windows Joseph A. Paradiso, Che King Leo, Nisha Checka, Kaijen Hsiao. In the Proceedings of the ACM CHI2002 Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Extended Abstracts, pp. 732-733, April 20-25, 2002. 

An Inertial Measurement Framework for Gesture Recognition and Applications Ari Y. Benbasat and Joseph A. Paradiso. In Ipke Wachsmuth, Timo Sowa (Eds.), "Gesture and Sign Language in Human-Computer Interaction," International Gesture Workshop, GW 2001, London, UK, 2001 Proceedings, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, pp. 9-20. 

A Compact, Wireless, Self-Powered Pushbutton Controller Joseph A. Paradiso and Mark Feldmeier. In Abowd, G.D., Brumitt, B., and Shafer, S., eds, "Ubicomp 2001: Ubiquitous Computing," ACM UBICOMP Conference Proceedings, Atlanta GA, Sept. 2001, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001, pp. 299-304. 

Ultra-Low-Cost Wireless Motion Sensors for Musical Interaction with Very Large Groups Joseph Paradiso and Mark Feldmeier. Presented at the UBICOMP 2001 Workshop on Designing Ubiquitous Computing Games, ACM UBICOMP Conference Proceedings, Atlanta GA, Sept. 2001. 

Responsive Window Joseph Paradiso. Takeover - Proc. of Ars Electronica 2001, Springer Vienna/New York, 2001, pp. 261-263. 

Energy Scavenging with Shoe-Mounted Piezoelectrics Nathan S. Shenck, Joseph A. Paradiso. IEEE Micro, Vol. 21, No. 3, May-June 2001, pp. 30-42. 

Tangible Music Interfaces Using Passive Magnetic Tags Joseph A. Paradiso, Kai-yuh Hsiao, and Ari Benbasat, ACM CHI 2001 Conference - Special Workshop on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. 

Compact, Configurable Inerital Gesture Recognition. A. Benbasat, J. Paradiso, Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2001 Conference - Extended Abstracts, pp. 183-184. 

MediaMatrix: Self-organizing Distributed Physical Database. J. Lifton, J. Lee, Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2001 Conference - Extended Abstracts, pp. 193-194. 

FootNotes: Personal Reflections on the Development of Instrumented Dance Shoes and their Musical Applications. J. Paradiso, in Quinz, E., ed., Digital Performance, Anomalie, digital_arts Vol. 2,Anomos, Paris, 2002, pp. 34-49. 

Sensor Systems for Interactive Surfaces. J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao, J. Strickon, J. Lifton, and A. Adler, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 39, Nos. 3 & 4, October 2000, pp. 892-914. 

Design and Implementation of Expressive Footwear. J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao, A. Benbasat, Z. Teegarden, IBM Systems Journal, Volume 39, Nos. 3 & 4, October 2000, pp. 511-529. 

New Sensor and Music Systems for Large Interactive Surfaces J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao, J. Strickon, P. Rice, Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2000, August 2000. 

Musical Trinkets: New Pieces to Play, J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao, A. Benbasat, in SIGGRAPH 2000 Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM Press, NY, July 2000, p. 90. 

Renewable Energy Sources for the Future of Mobile and Embedded Computing J. Paradiso, Invited talk given at the Computing Continuum Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 16, 2000. 

Interfacing to the Foot: Apparatus and Applications, J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao, A. Benbasat, Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2000 Conference; Extended Abstracts, pp. 175-176. 

American Innovations in Electronic Musical Instruments J. Paradiso, article in the "New Music Box" monthly online periodical of the American Music Center, October 1999 . 

Interactive Music for Instrumented Dancing Shoes J. Paradiso, K. Hsiao and E. Hu, Proc. of the 1999 International Computer Music Conference, October 1999, pp. 453-456. 

A New Continuous Multimodal Musical Controller Using Wireless Magnetic Tags K. Hsiao and J. Paradiso, Proc. of the 1999 International Computer Music Conference, October 1999, pp. 24-27. 

Swept Frequency, Magnetically-Coupled Resonant Tags for Realtime, Continuous, Multiparameter Control J. Paradiso and K. Hsiao, Human Factors in Computing Systems; CHI99 Extended Abstracts, 1999, pp. 212-213. 

The CyberShoe: A Wireless Multisensor Interface for a Dancer's Feet Joseph Paradiso, Eric Hu, Kai-yuh Hsiao. Proc. of International Dance and Technology 99, Tempe AZ, Feb. 26-28, 1999, FullHouse Publishing, Lethbridge, Alberta, pp. 57-60, June 2000. 

Parasitic Power Harvesting in Shoes John Kymisis, Clyde Kendall, Joseph Paradiso, and Neil Gershenfeld. Proc. of the Second IEEE International Conference on Wearable Computing, (ISWC), IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 132-139, October 1998. 

Instrumented Footwear for Interactive Dance Joseph Paradiso, Eric Hu, and Kai-Yuh Hsiao. Proc. of the XII Colloquium on Musical Informatics, Gorizia, Italy, September 24-26, 1998, pp. 89-92. 

Stretchable music with laser rangefinder Strickon, J., Rice, P., and Paradiso, J., In SIGGRAPH 98 Conference Abstracts and Applications, ACM Press, 1998,p. 123. 

Tracking Hands Above Large Interactive Surfaces with a Low-Cost Scanning Laser Rangefinder Joshua Strickon, Joseph Paradiso. In CHI98; Extended Abstracts, ACM Press, NY, April 1998, pp. 231-232. 

The Brain Opera Technology: New Instruments and Gestural Sensors for Musical Interaction and Performance Joseph Paradiso. Journal of New Music Research, Vol. 28, No. 2, 1999, pp. 130-149. For additional information and video clips, visit their online site

Getting the Picture: Guest Editor's Introduction Joseph Paradiso. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 18, No. 3, May-June 1998, pp. 26-27. 

Electric Field Sensing for Graphical Interfaces Joshua Smith, Tom White, Christopher Dodge, David Allport, Joseph Paradiso, Neil Gershenfeld. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 18, No. 3, May-June 1998, pp. 54-60. 

Electronic Music Interfaces: New Ways to Play J. Paradiso, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 18-30 (Dec., 1997). Note: an expanded version with more detail is posted hereon our site.

Expressive Footwear for Computer-Augmented Dance Performance J. Paradiso and E. Hu, in Proc. of the First International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Cambridge, MA., IEEE Computer Society Press, Oct. 13-14, 1997, pp. 165-166. 

Optical Tracking for Music and Dance Performance J. Paradiso, F. Sparacino, in "Optical 3-D Measurement Techniques IV", A. Gruen, H. Kahmen eds., Herbert Wichmann Verlag, Heidelberg Germany, pp. 11-18 (1997). 

The Magic Carpet: Physical Sensing for Immersive Environments J. Paradiso, C. Abler, KY. Hsiao, M. Reynolds, in Proc. of the CHI '97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts, ACM Press, NY, pp. 277-278(1997). 

New Technologies for Monitoring the Precision Alignment of Large Detector Systems J. Paradiso, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A386, pp. 409-420 (1997). 

Musical Applications of Electric Field Sensing Joseph A. Paradiso and Neil Gershenfeld, Computer Music Journal 21(2), Summer 1997, pp. 69-89. 

The Interactive Balloon; Sensing, Actuation and Behavior in a Common Object Joseph A. Paradiso, IBM Systems Journal 35, pp. 473-488 (1996). 

High-Resolution Piezopolymer Acoustic Bearing Estimator Shawn E. Burke and Joseph A. Paradiso, Presented at the Second Technical Conference on Telecommunications R&D in Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA, March 12, 1996. 

Electronics for the Precision Alignment of the GEM Muon System J. Paradiso and D. Marlow, Proc. of the 1994 LeCroy Electronics for Future Colliders Conference, LeCroy Corp., Chestnut Ridge, NY, May 1994, pp. 235-249. 
 
 

Student Theses:

Nan-Wei Gong -- Design and Applications of Inkjet-Printed Flexible Sensate Surfaces(PhD) August 2013.

Micahel Lapinski -- A Platform for High-Speed Biomechanical Data Analysis using Wearable Wireless Sensors(PhD) August 2013.

Amit Zoran -- Hybrid re.Assemblage Bridging Traditional Craft and Digital Design(PhD) August 2013.

Bo Morgan -- "A Substrate for Accountable Layered Systems(PhD) August 2013.

Brian Mayton -- WristQue: A Personal Sensor Wristband for Smart Infrastructure and Control (MS) February 2013.

Nick Joliat -- DoppelLab: Spatialized Data Sonification in a 3D Virtual Environment (M.Eng) February 2013.

Gershon Dublon -- Beyond the Lends: Communicating Conext through Sensing, Video and Visualization (MS) September 2011.

Laurel Pardue -- Expressive Re-Performance (MS) September 2011.

Rachel Bainbridge -- HCI Gesture Tracking Using Wearable Passive Tags(M.Eng) September 2010.

Nan Zhao -- Smart Solid-State Lighting Control (Diplom - RWTH Aachen) September 2010. 

Alexander Reben -- Interactive Physical Agents for Story Gathering (MS) June 2010. 

Matthew Aldrich -- Dynamic Solid State Lighting (MS) June 2010.  

Mathew Laibowitz -- Creating Cohesive Video with the Narrative-Informed use of Ubiquitous Wearable and Imaging Sensor Networks(PhD) January 2010. 

Clemens Satzger -- Fusion of Six-Dimensional Sensor Data Using Physics Engines(Diplom - TU München) January 2010.

Mark Feldmeier -- Personalized Building Comfort Control(PhD) September 2009. 

Nan-Wei Gong -- Configurable Dynamic Privacy for Pervasive Sensor Networks(MS) September 2009. 

Michael Lapinski -- A Wearable, Wireless Sensor System for Sports Medicine(MS) September 2008. 

Behram Mistree -- A Flexible High-Density Sensor Network(MEng) September 2008. 

Manas Mittal -- Ubicorder: A Mobile Interface to Sensor Networks(MS) September 2007. 

Joshua Lifton -- Dual Reality: An Emerging Medium(PhD) September 2007. 

Robert N. Jacobs -- A Wireless Sensor-based Mobile Music Environment Compiled from a Graphical Language(MEng) September 2007. 

Jason LaPenta -- Real-time 3-d Localization using Radar and Passive Surface Acoustic Wave Transponders(MS) August 2007. 

Ari Y. Benbasat -- An Automated Framework for Power-Efficient Detection in Embedded Sensor Systems(PhD) February 2007. 

Mateusz K. Malinowski -- CargoNet: Micropower Sensate Tags for Supply-Chain Management and Security(MEng) February 2007. 

Bo Morgan -- Learning Commonsense Human-language Descriptions from Temporal and Spatial Sensor-network Data(MS) August 2006. 

Ryan Aylward -- Sensemble: A Wireless Inertial Sensor System for Interactive Dance and Collective Motion Analysis(MS) August 2006. 

Daniel Sang Kim -- Sensor Network Localization Based on Natural Phenomena(MEng) August 2006. 

Gerardo Barroeta Péerez -- S.N.A.K.E.: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Artificial Sensate Skin (MS) August 2006. 

Dan Lovell -- A System for Real-Time Gesture Recognition and Classification of Coordinated Motion (MEng) January 2005. 

Michael Broxton -- Localization and Sensing Applications in the Pushpin Computing Network(MEng) January 2005. 

Mat Laibowitz -- Parasitic Mobility for Sensate Media(MS) August 2004. 

Stacy J Morris -- A Shoe-Integrated Sensor System for Wireless Gait Analysis and Real-Time Therapeutic Feedback(PhD) June 2004. 

David Merrill -- FlexiGesture: An sensor-rich real-time adaptive gesture and affordance learning platform for electronic music control(MS) June 2004.  

Hongshen Ma -- Capacitive Displacement Sensing for the Nanogate(MS) February 2004.  

Mark C. Feldmeier -- Large Group Musical Interaction using Disposable Wireless Motion Sensors (MS) October 2002.  

Joshua H. Lifton -- Pushpin Computing: a Platform for Distributed Sensor Networks (MS) September 2002.

Che King Leo -- Contact and Free-Gesture Tracking for Large Interactive Surfaces (MEng) June 2002.

Laurel P. Smith -- Development of An Improved Swept RF Tagging System and its Musical Applications (MEng) January 2002.

Leila Hasan -- Visual Frets for a Free-Gesture Musical Interface (MEng) June 2001.

Nisha Checka -- A System for Tracking and Characterizing Acoustic Impacts on Large Interactive Surfaces (MEng) May 2001.

Zoe Teegarden --Embedded Low-Power Wireless Sensor System: Design of a Software Radio Base Station (MEng) April 2001.

Christopher Yang -- New Laser Rangefinder Designs for Tracking Hands Atop Large Interactive Surfaces (MEng) March 2001.

Kai-yuh Hsiao-- Fast Multi-Axis Tracking of Magnetically-Resonant Passive Tags: Methods and Applications (MEng) February 2001.

Jeffrey Y. Hayashida-- Unobtrusive Integration of Magnetic Generator Systems into Common Footwear (BS) June 2000.

Ara N. Knaian--  A Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Roadbeds and Intelligent Transportation Systems (MEng) June 2000.

Ari Y. Benbasat -- An Inertial Measurement Unit for User Interfaces (MS) September 2000.

Ari T. Adler--  A Cost-Effective Portable Telemedicine Kit for Use in Developing Countries (MS) June 2000.

Phillip J. Rowe -- Characterization of a Wideband Monopulse Piezoelectric Direction Finder (MEng) June 1999. 

Nathan S. Shenck--  A Demonstration of Useful Electric Energy Generation from Piezoceramics in a Shoe (MS) May 1999. 

Eric Hu-- Applications of Expressive Footwear(MEng) May 1999

Joshua A. Strickon--  Design and HCI Applications of a Low-Cost Scanning Laser Rangefinder (MEng) January 1999. 

Clyde Jake Kendall-- Parasitic Power Collection in Shoe-Mounted Devices (BS) June 1998.

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