Publications

Download BibTeX for all my publications (allhightower.bib). Individual BibTeX entries for my pubs can be found below with each citataion. Also see my citation summary page on Google Scholar.

Refereed Journals and Magazines

• Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello, Sunny Consolvo, Dirk Haehnel, Beverly Harrison, Bruce Hemingway, Jeffrey Hightower, Pedja Klasnja, Karl Koscher, Anthony LaMarca, Jonathan Lester, James Landay, Louis Legrand, Ali Rahimi, Adam Rea, and Danny Wyatt, "The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded System for Capturing and Recognizing Human Activities," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 32-41, IEEE Computer Society Press, April-June 2008. (, )

• Alex Varshavsky, Eyal de Lara, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower, and Veljo Otsason, "GSM Indoor Localization," Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 698--720, Elsevier, 2007. ()

• Jeffrey Hightower, Anthony LaMarca, and Ian Smith, "Practical Lessons from Place Lab," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 32-39, IEEE Computer Society Press, July-September 2006. (, )

• Dieter Fox, Jeffrey Hightower, Lin Liao, Dirk Schulz, and Gaetano Borriello, "Bayesian Filtering for Location Estimation," IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 24-33, IEEE Computer Society Press, July-September 2003. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing," Computer, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 57-66, IEEE Computer Society Press, Aug. 2001. (, )

Refereed Conference Papers

• Sidhant Gupta, Tim Campbell, Jeffrey Hightower, and Shwetak N. Patel, "SqueezeBlock: Using Virtual Springs in Mobile Devices for Eyes-Free Interaction," in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), (NY, NY), Oct. 2010. (, )

• Mariano Phielipp, Branislav Kveton, Magdiel Galan, Richard Lee, and Jeffrey Hightower, "Fast, Accurate, and Practical Identity Inference Using TV Remote Controls," in Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-10), (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), July 2010. (, )

• Donnie Kim, Jeffrey Hightower, Ramesh Govindan, and Deborah Estrin, "Discovering Semantically Meaningful Places from Pervasive RF-Beacons," in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), (Orlando, Florida), Oct. 2009. (, )

• Kenghao Chang, Jeffrey Hightower, and Branislav Kveton, "Inferring Identity using Accelerometers in Television Remote Controls," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2009), (Nara, Japan), May 2009. (, )

• Predrag Klasnja, Sunny Consolvo, Tanzeem Choudhury, Richard Beckwith, and Jeffrey Hightower, "Exploring Privacy Concerns about Personal Sensing," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2009), (Nara, Japan), May 2009. (, )

• Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower, and Eyal de Lara, "The SkyLoc Floor Localization System," in Proceedings of the Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007), pp. 125-134, Mar. 2007. (, )

• Mike Y. Chen, Timothy Sohn, Dmitri Chmelev, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Jeff Hughes, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Ian Smith, and Alex Varshavsky, "Practical Metropolitan-scale Positioning for GSM Phones," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), pp. 225-242, Sep. 2006. (, )

• Timothy Sohn, Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Mike Y. Chen, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, William G. Griswold, and Eyal de Lara, "Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces," in Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), pp. 212-224, Sep. 2006. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, Sunny Consolvo, Anthony LaMarca, Ian Smith, and Jeff Hughes, "Learning and Recognizing the Places We Go," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2005), pp. 159-176, Sep. 2005. (, )

• Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightower, Ian Smith, and Sunny Consolvo, "Self-Mapping in 802.11 Location Systems," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2005), pp. 87-104, Sep. 2005. (, )

• Giovanni Iachello, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Gregory Abowd, Jeff Hughes, James Howard, Fred Potter, James Scott, Tim Sohn, Jeffrey Hightower, and Anthony LaMarca, "Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2005), pp. 213-231, Sep. 2005. (, )

• Anthony LaMarca, Yatin Chawathe, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, Ian Smith, James Scott, Tim Sohn, James Howard, Jeff Hughes, Fred Potter, Jason Tabert, Pauline Powledge, Gaetano Borriello, and Bill Schilit, "Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild," in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005), May 2005. (, )

• Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Jeffrey Hightower, Giovanni Iachello, Anthony LaMarca, James Scott, Tim Sohn, and Gregory Abowd, "Social Disclosure Of Place: From Location Technology to Communications Practices," in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005), May 2005. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "Particle Filters for Location Estimation in Ubiquitous Computing: A Case Study," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2004), (Nigel Davies, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Itiro Siio, eds.), pp. 88-106, Sep. 2004. (, )

• Lin Liao, Dieter Fox, Jeffrey Hightower, Henry Kautz, and Dirk Schulz, "Voronoi Tracking: Location Estimation using Sparse and Noisy Sensor Data," in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 723-728, IEEE/RSJ, Oct. 2003. (, )

• Dirk Schulz, Dieter Fox, and Jeffrey Hightower, "People Tracking with Anonymous and ID-Sensors using Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filters," in Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), pp. 921-926, Aug. 2003. (, )

• Mike Esler, Jeffrey Hightower, Tom Anderson, and Gaetano Borriello, "Next Century Challenges: Data-Centric Networking for Invisible Computing - The Portolano Project at the University of Washington," in Proceedings of Mobicom 1999, (Seattle, WA), pp. 256-262, ACM, 1999. (, )

Refereed Workshop Papers

• Alex Varshavsky, Mike Chen, Eyal de Lara, Jon Froehlich, Dirk Haehnel, Jeffrey Hightower, Anthony LaMarca, Fred Potter, Timothy Sohn, Karen Tang, and Ian Smith, "Are GSM Phones THE Solution for Localization?," in Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (HotMobile 2006), Apr. 2006. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, "New Lessons from an Old Location Technology," in Proceedings of The 2004 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing Applications, Sep. 2004. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, "From Position to Place," in Proceedings of The 2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing, pp. 10-12, Oct. 2003. (, )

• Dieter Fox, Jeffrey Hightower, Henry Kautz, Lin Liao, and Don Patterson, "Bayesian Techniques for Location Estimation," in Proceedings of The 2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing, pp. 16-18, Oct. 2003. (, )

• David Graumann, Walter Lara, Jeffrey Hightower, and Gaetano Borriello, "Real-world implementation of the Location Stack: The Universal Location Framework," in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (WMCSA 2003), pp. 122-128, Oct. 2003. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, and Gaetano Borriello, "The Location Stack: A Layered Model for Location in Ubiquitous Computing," in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (WMCSA 2002), (Callicoon, NY), pp. 22-28, June 2002. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "Real-Time Error in Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing," in Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing - Ubicomp 2001 Workshop Proceedings, (Michael Beigel, Phil Gray, and Daniel Salber, eds.), (Atlanta, GA), pp. 21-27, Sep. 2001. (, )

Refereed Demonstrations

• Jeffrey Hightower, Branislav Kveton, and Kenghao Chang, "A Demonstration of Inferring Identity using Accelerometers in Television Remote Controls," in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Demonstration Track, (Nara, Japan), May 2009. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "The Location Stack: Multi-sensor Fusion in Action", Oct. 2003. (, )

Tech Reports

• Jeffrey Hightower, Dieter Fox, and Gaetano Borriello, "The Location Stack," UW CSE 03-07-01, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, July 2003. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "A Survey and Taxonomy of Location Sensing Systems for Ubiquitous Computing," UW CSE 01-08-03, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, Aug. 2001. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "Location Sensing Techniques," UW CSE 01-07-01, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, July 2001. (, )

Theses

• Jeffrey Hightower, "The Location Stack", 2004. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, Roy Want, and Gaetano Borriello, "SpotON: An Indoor 3D Location Sensing Technology Based on RF Signal Strength," UW CSE 00-02-02, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2000. (, )

Other Papers

• Ken Yasuhara, Neil Spring, and Jeffrey Hightower, "Educational Materials to Assist in Motivating Functional Programming," in The Potentially Computer Science Conferene (PoCSci), (Seattle, WA), May 2003. (, , )

• Jeffrey Hightower, Chris Vakili, Gaetano Borriello, and Roy Want, "Design and Calibration of the SpotON Ad-Hoc Location Sensing System", Aug. 2001. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, "The Simpsons - Is it Art?", Dec. 1998. (, )

• Jeffrey Hightower, "On the Evolution of Programming," Colorado Engineer Magazine, vol. Fall-Winter, 1996. (, )