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Posted by Christo Kleu on March 30, 2009, 5:20 am
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I am currently doing my Honors in Computer Engineering at University of Pretoria (South Africa). While studying, I am doing research regarding my fields of interest (for my Masters). I find the field of home/building automation very interesting - as it covers embedded systems (programming) and aspects of networking (routing/connectivity). I was wondering if there is anyone in this group with academic experience that can suggest some topics for a Master Thesis? Any inputs would be appreciated. Christo Kleu | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by lindelof on April 6, 2009, 4:01 am
Please log in for more thread options My name is David Lindel=F6f and I have done my PhD on the topic of building automation, more specifically on the topic of optimizing visual comfort by analyzing the users' behaviour. I encourage you to pursue this academic trail, as there is still a lot to figure out in this field. We do not really understand very well the mechanisms of visual and/or thermal comfort and there's a lot of research going on there. I did my thesis at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory (http://leso.epfl.ch/) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Feel free to mention my name if you contact them for any open positions. You can also see some of my publications here (http://www.visnet.ch/smartbuildings/ publications/) and my thesis can be found here (http://library.epfl.ch/ theses/?nr=3D3918) Feel free to contact me directly for more information. Cheers, -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: David Lindel=F6f, PhD W) http://visnet.ch/smartbuildings W) http://jgsl.sf.net L) http://www.linkedin.com/in/lindelof court, n.: A place where they dispense with justice. -- Arthur Train | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by RickH on April 24, 2009, 10:15 am
Please log in for more thread options > Good day comp.home.automation
> > I am currently doing my Honors in Computer Engineering at University > of Pretoria (South Africa). > While studying, I am doing research regarding my fields of interest > (for my Masters). > > I find the field of home/building automation very interesting - as it > covers embedded systems (programming) and aspects of networking > (routing/connectivity). > I was wondering if there is anyone in this group with academic > experience that can suggest some topics for a Master Thesis? > > Any inputs would be appreciated. > > Christo Kleu I would focus on user interfaces, UI simplicity, and research on how to get people to live "naturally" with HA. The survival of HA depends mostly on this and not on what it can do. If people have to explain how to turn on a light to the next buyer of their home, then there is a huge problem in the HA industry. There are many areas where human interaction can be studied: voice, keypads, programming, ease of ownership, standardization, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on April 24, 2009, 6:14 pm
Please log in for more thread options RickH wrote:
>> Good day comp.home.automation
>> >> I am currently doing my Honors in Computer Engineering at University >> of Pretoria (South Africa). >> While studying, I am doing research regarding my fields of interest >> (for my Masters). >> >> I find the field of home/building automation very interesting - as it >> covers embedded systems (programming) and aspects of networking >> (routing/connectivity). >> I was wondering if there is anyone in this group with academic >> experience that can suggest some topics for a Master Thesis? >> >> Any inputs would be appreciated. >> >> Christo Kleu >
> I would focus on user interfaces, UI simplicity, and research on how > to get people to live "naturally" with HA. The survival of HA depends > mostly on this and not on what it can do. If people have to explain > how to turn on a light to the next buyer of their home, then there is > a huge problem in the HA industry. There are many areas where human > interaction can be studied: voice, keypads, programming, ease of > ownership, standardization, etc. And installation. Generally it takes a trained technician to set your up HA. Until the average user can do it HA will be a niche market for retrofit. -- Dirk http://www.transcendence.me.uk/ - Transcendence UK http://www.theconsensus.org/ - A UK political party http://www.onetribe.me.uk/wordpress/?cat=5 - Our podcasts on weird stuff | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Christo Kleu on April 25, 2009, 6:56 am
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> RickH wrote:
> >> Good day comp.home.automation
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> >> I am currently doing my Honors in Computer Engineering at University
> >> of Pretoria (South Africa). > >> While studying, I am doing research regarding my fields of interest > >> (for my Masters). >
> >> I find the field of home/building automation very interesting - as it
> >> covers embedded systems (programming) and aspects of networking > >> (routing/connectivity). > >> I was wondering if there is anyone in this group with academic > >> experience that can suggest some topics for a Master Thesis? >
> >> Any inputs would be appreciated.
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> >> Christo Kleu
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> > I would focus on user interfaces, UI simplicity, and research on how
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> > to get people to live "naturally" with HA. =A0The survival of HA depend= > > mostly on this and not on what it can do. =A0If people have to explain
> > how to turn on a light to the next buyer of their home, then there is > > a huge problem in the HA industry. =A0There are many areas where human > > interaction can be studied: voice, keypads, programming, ease of > > ownership, standardization, etc. >
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> And installation. > Generally it takes a trained technician to set your up HA. Until the > average user can do it HA will be a niche market for retrofit. > > -- > Dirk > > http://www.transcendence.me.uk/- Transcendence UKhttp://www.theconsensus.= podcasts on weird stuff Thank you very much for the replies - these sounds like great and fun areas to research. Our second semester is from July to December, where we have an subject "Introduction to Research" - in this subject I can start doing some research regarding the areas you mentioned previously. Normally we formulate our Master Thesis proposal from the output of this subject. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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> covers embedded systems (programming) and aspects of networking
> (routing/connectivity).
> I was wondering if there is anyone in this group with academic
> experience that can suggest some topics for a Master Thesis?