Globetoddler is a system that aims to make remote communication more fun and easy for yong children and their traveling parents. The system uses an embodied interface (doll) in order to support and create more engaging, affective, and tangible interactions than conventional technologies, such as phones, can offer.

Going My Way is a mobile user-aware route planner. The system learns a user’s everyday routes and provides directions from locations along those routes. The directions provided by the system are based on personal landmarks rather than street names and intersections. The main goal of Going My Way is to reduce the user’s cognitive load by simplifying and personalizing directions.

The Fitness Actuation Tool (FAT) is a partly wearable software agent-based system that helps people exercise. FAT serves essential training control, by supplying straight-forward and personalized voice commands. Unlike many other training devices, FAT has been designed especially to adapt to the user’s current level of motivation, in order to improve the overall user experience.

Monkey To Go is a mobile extension of Monkey Business, our animatronic, remote-awareness network. Cell phones, running our MonkeyToGo application, can easily be added to the network in order to interact with and receive information from the agents in real time.

Monkey Business furthers the Speech & Mobility Group's work with animatronic agents, as seen earlier with Stefan Marti's Cellular Squirrel. The system is a peer-to-peer network of animatronic monkeys that act as audio-enabled agents, keeping members of a distributed group of people informed about each other's current state and level of availability.

Tiltle is a novel interface for exploring dynamic balance using the metaphor of a traditional scale. Rather than comparing physical weights, Tiltle can be used to contrast digital data in different domains.