Computer Science 590U - Mobile and Ubiquit. Computing

This course will introduce students to the field of mobile sensing and ubiquitous computing (Ubicomp) - an emerging CS research area that aims to design and develop disruptive technologies with hardware and software systems for real-world messy, noisy and mobile scenarios. The students will learn how to build mobile sensing systems, how to implement it with ubiquitous computing tools, how to make sense of the sensor data and model the target variables. Lastly, the students will learn how to critically think about problems in many application areas including Human-Computer Interaction, Medicine, Sustainability, Transportation, Psychology and Economics, and subsequently practice to find appropriate Ubicomp solutions. This course counts as a CS Elective toward the CS major (BA or BS).

MS-CMPSCI students only LECT 01 FOR UNDERGRADS; LECT 02 FOR GRADS. SOME BACKGROUND IN MACHINE LEARNING, SIGNAL PROCESSING, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, PHYSICAL COMPUTING IS HELPFUL. INSTRUCTOR PERMISSION FOR STUDENTS WITH ALTERNATE PREREQUISITES. STUDENTS NEEDING SPECIAL PERMISSION MUST REQUEST OVERRIDES VIA THE ONLINE FORM: https://www.cics.umass.edu/overrides.