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Participants
Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
August 7-14, 2002, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Participants
Participant |
Affiliation |
Country |
Tue
Haste Andersen |
Copenhagen University, Department of Computer Science |
Denmark |
Gerhard
Austaller |
Darmstadt University of Technology, Telecooperation |
Germany |
Faruk
Bagci |
University of Augsburg |
Germany |
Renata
Bandelloni |
Istituto Trentino di Cultura ITC-irst |
Italy |
Martin
Bauer |
University of Stuttgart |
Germany |
Alastair
Beresford |
University of Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering |
United Kingdom |
Jan
Beutel |
ETH Zurich, TIK |
Switzerland |
Mark
Billinghurst |
University of Washington, Human Interface Technology Laboratory |
USA |
Sonja
Buchegger |
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, EPFL Lausanne |
Switzerland |
Thomas
Buchholz |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of Communication
Systems and Computer Networks |
Germany |
Ozan
Cakmakci |
UCF, Florida, CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and
Lasers) |
USA |
Jochen
Denzinger |
Fraunhofer IMK, MARS – Exploratory Media Lab |
Germany |
Esko
Dijk |
Technical University Eindhoven / Philips Research Eindhoven |
Netherlands |
Matthias
Dyer |
ETH Zurich, TIK |
Switzerland |
Gudrun
Fischer |
University of Dortmund, Computer Science VI, Information Retrieval |
Germany |
Hannes
Frey |
University of Trier, System Software and Distributed Systems |
Germany |
Robert
Harle |
University of Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering |
United Kingdom |
Dominik
Heckmann |
DFKI Saarbrücken |
Germany |
Adolf
Hohl |
University of Freiburg, Institute for Computer Science and Social
Studies |
Germany |
Nataliya
Hristova |
University College Dublin |
Ireland |
Tero
Häkkinen |
Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics |
Finland |
Matthias
Joest |
European Media Laboratory (EML) |
Germany |
Alexandros
Karypidis |
Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H. |
Greece |
Oliver
Kasten |
ETH Zurich, DSG |
Switzerland |
Nicky
Kern |
ETH Zurich, PCCV |
Switzerland |
Csaba Kiss
Kalló |
University of Trento |
Italy |
Ursula
Kretschmer |
Fraunhofer IGD |
Germany |
Rainer
Kroh |
DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology Telematics Research |
Germany |
Jonas
Landgren |
Viktoria Institute |
Sweden |
Tatiana
Lashina |
Philips Electronics Nederland, Research Lab |
Netherlands |
Paul
Lukowicz |
ETH Zurich, Wearable Computing Lab, IfE |
Switzerland |
Filipe
Meneses |
University of Minho, Information Systems Department |
Portugal |
Florian
Michahelles |
ETH Zurich, PCCV |
Switzerland |
Martin
Muehlenbrock |
Xerox Research Centre Europe |
France |
Tatsuo
Nakajima |
Waseda University, Department of Information and Computer Science |
Japan |
Andronikos
Nedos |
Trinity College Dublin, Distributed Systems Group |
Ireland |
Chaki
Ng |
Harvard University |
USA |
Stina
Nylander |
Swedish Institute of Computer Science |
Sweden |
Kasper
Halleborg Pedersen |
University of Southern Denmark, Maersk Institute |
Denmark |
Mario
Pichler |
Software Competence Center Hagenberg |
Austria |
Yves
Punie |
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) (JRC-EC) |
Spain |
Jaana
Rantanen |
Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics |
Finland |
Kasim
Rehman |
University of Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering |
United Kingdom |
Gerhard
Reitmayr |
Vienna University of Technology |
Austria |
Steffen
Reymann |
Philips Research Laboratories |
United Kingdom |
Stephanie
Riche |
HP Labs Grenoble |
France |
Matthias
Ringwald |
ETH Zurich, DSG |
Switzerland |
Michael
Rohs |
ETH Zurich, DSG |
Switzerland |
Johan
Sanneblad |
Viktoria Institute |
Sweden |
Kulpreet
Singh |
Trinity College Dublin, Distributed Systems Group |
Ireland |
Martin
Strohbach |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
Mark
Taylor |
Lancaster University |
United Kingdom |
Dario
Teixeira |
Philips Research / Technical University Eindhoven |
Netherlands |
Tore
Urnes |
Telenor Research and Development |
Norway |
Julien
Vayssiere |
INRIA Sophia Antipolis |
France |
Andreas
Weissel |
University of Erlangen, Department of Computer Science 4 |
Germany |
Song
Yuan |
Darmstadt University of Technology |
Germany |
Andreas
Zeidler |
Darmstadt University of Technology |
Germany |
Wensheng
Zhang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Software, HCI and
Intelligent Engineering Lab |
China |
Tue Haste Andersen
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Tue Haste Andersen
Copenhagen
University, Department of Computer Science Universitetsparken 1
Copenhagen O 2100 Denmark
Email: haste@diku.dk Phone: +45 35321456 Web: http://www.diku.dk/users/haste/ |
Scientific interests: I am a Ph.d. student at the Music
Informatics Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Science, University of
Copenhangen. My master thesis was on analysis, modeling and
synthesis of musical sounds. The goal of this work was to improve
current additive analysis and synthesis techniques, for use in sound
recognition and musical synthesizers.
I have recently
started my ph.d. study in the Music Informatics group. My work is on
interaction and visualization of sounds, in music performance and
production contexts. Although I have no practical experience in
Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, I am interested in application
of sound signal analysis in these fields, and the interaction
aspects hereof.
Short CV: I hold the following
degrees: High School degree in mathematical sciences, Denmark,
1995. Bachelor in Computer Science, University of Roskilde,
Denmark, 1999. Master in Computer Science, University of
Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002.
Currently I am working on my
Ph.D. at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Recent Publications: - T. H. Andersen and
K. Jensen. On the importance of phase information in additive
analysis/synthesis of binaural sounds. In Proceedings of the
International Computer Music Conference, Havana, Cuba, 2001. -
J. Arnspang, K. Jensen, D. Murphy, T. Andersen, and G. Marentakis.
Music informatics laboratory at DIKU. In Proceedings of the
International Computer Music Conference, Havana, Cuba, 2001. -
T. H. Andersen and K. Jensen. Phase modeling of instrument sounds
based on psycho acoustic experiments. In Workshop on current
research directions in computer music, Barcelona, Spain, 2001, 2001.
- D. Murphy, G. Marentakis, T. H. Andersen, and K. Jensen.
Scalable spectral reflections in conic sections. In Proceedings of
the Digital Audio Effects Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, 2001. -
T. H. Andersen. Phase models in real-time analysis/synthesis of
voiced sounds, January 2002. Master
thesis. | |
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Gerhard Austaller
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Gerhard Austaller
Darmstadt
University of Technology, Telecooperation Alexanderstr. 6 Darmstadt
64283 Germany
Email: gerhard@informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Phone: +49 (6151) 16 - 2259 Fax: +49 (6151) 16 -
3052 Web: http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ |
RESEARCH: ========= My current research topic can be
summerized as "context aware infrastructures for mobile services".
My former research and implementation of a service infrastructure
for mobile devices including WAP phones showed that taking context
into account can have extremely positive impact on service platforms
for mobile devices. Currently only the use of context in
applications for mobile users is considered to be important. These
kind of applications normally deliver better results to users.
But even more important in my opinion is that context can and
must be used for service discovery and service orchestration. In
near future there will be many services using each other to perform
tasks for users. The gathering and combining of these services
("service orchestration") itself is a dynamic process influenced by
the context of the services' users. E.G. today calendars like
Outlook inform users at a fixed time before the meeting. If the
calendar knew the location of the user it could calculate the time
before it must remind the user. Calculation can be done by asking
other services like timetable for public transport or route planner
for car. Finding these services of course depends on the users'
context.
CV: === Gerhard Austaller was born in
Eberstalzell (Austria) in 1973. He received the degree of
"Diplom-Ingenieur" (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Sciense at the Johannes
Kepler University Linz in fall 1999. In his master thesis he
explored possibilities to overcome some problems in mobile computing
environments notably disconnections. Afterwards he there joined the
Telecooperation Group as research assistant with focus on
service-based infrastructures. In spring 2001 he moved to the
Telecooperation Group at the Darmstadt University of Technologie.
There he is researching on bringing the advantages of context-aware
computing to mobile services and infrastructures.
PUBLICATIONS: ============= Andreas Hartl, Gerhard
Austaller, G. Kappel, C. Lechleitner, Max Mühlhäuser, S. Reich, R.
Rudisch: Gulliver - A Development Environment for WAP Based
Applications. WWW9, 9th International World Wide Web Conference,
Amsterdam, May 15-19, 2000. pp. 26-27, 2000. ISBN 1-930792-01-8
Andreas Hartl, Gerhard Austaller, G. Kappel, C. Lechleitner,
Max Mühlhäuser, S. Reich, R. Rudisch: Gulliver Beans: Generating
Device Optimized and Individualized Content for WAP Applications.
Proc. Workshop Information Design for Mobile Web Services,
Amsterdam, May 15.-19. 2000.
Gerhard Austaller, Andreas
Hartl, G. Kappel, C. Lechleitner, Max Mühlhäuser, S. Reich, R.
Rudisch: Gulliver Beans: A Tool for Fine Tuning Data Delivery in
E-Commerce Applications. Proceedings EMISA?00 Informationssysteme
für E-Commerce, 8.-10. Nov. 2000, Linz, Austria. pp. 29-40, 2000.
ISBN 3-85487-1945
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Faruk Bagci
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Faruk Bagci
University of
Augsburg Eichleitnerstr. 30 Augsburg
86159 Germany
Email: bagci@informatik.uni-augsburg.de Phone: 0821/598 2352 Fax: 0821/ 598 2359
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I am a Computer Scientist and I am engaged in a research project
about the use of mobile agent technologies in Ubiquitous Computing
since 6 months. My interests are in Mobile Software Agents, Location
and Context Awareness, and Prediction techniques. I would like to
engross my knowledge about ubiquitous computing, especially
context&location modelling and awareness, as well as security
and privacy issues. | |
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Renata Bandelloni
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Renata Bandelloni
Istituto
Trentino di Cultura ITC-irst Via Sommarive 18 Povo, TR
38050 Italy
Email: r.bandelloni@iei.pi.cnr.it
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I graduated in computer science in December 2001 at the
University of Pisa (Italy). At present I'm working at the National
Council of Research in Pisa (Italy), with a grant from ITC-IRST
Trento (Italy). My research activity focalize on middleware
applications for mobile personal area networks and distributed
computing, with context awareness.
What I expect from
partecipating the summer school is to learn more about subjects
strictly related to my research and having the possibility to see
what others are doing on the same field, exchange ideas and maybe
start some collaboration. | |
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Martin Bauer
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Martin Bauer
University of
Stuttgart Breitwiesenstr. 20-22 Stuttgart
70565 Germany
Email: mabauer@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Phone: +49 711 7816 218 Fax: +49 711 7816
424 Web: http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ipvr/vs/en/people/mabauer/index.html |
I am a research assistant in the Distributed Systems Group
headed by Prof. Rothermel at the University of Stuttgart.
I
am working on the Nexus project, a project funded by the German
Research Foundation (DFG) with partners from the areas of
photogrammetry, electrical engineering, databases, visualization and
distributed systems.
We investigate concepts and methods for
the support of context-aware applications for mobile users, where
the most important context information is location. The goal is to
develop a global platform for context-aware applications with a
federated, distributed and dynamic model of the real world at its
core that is augmented with virtual information.
My area of
research within the project is the efficient observation of spatial
events, i.e. events that are related to the position of mobile
objects in space. A typical example for such an event is that a user
wants to be informed when passing a shoe shop, because he needs to
buy shoes (and usually forgets about it when he is in town). The
information that is necessary for observing such an event may be
distributed among different servers and therefore the observation of
the event may also be distributed. This means that time concepts
have to be taken into account in order to have a well-defined
semantics for the distributed event, which can be described using an
event specification language, e.g. based on global predicates. The
observation of events then has to be distributed to observation
nodes in an optimal way regarding parameters like delay (affecting
the semantics) and communication overhead.
The summer school
covers issues (e.g. location-awareness, context-awareness, mobile
computing, middleware computing infrastructures, security and
privacy) that are very relevant for the Nexus research project as a
whole as well as for my own research, with lecturers who are
well-known in these fields. I hope to exchange ideas about the
current research topics in this field with the participants of the
workshop, which may be the basis for future cooperations. I
would like to contribute to the workshop, especially on topics
concerning location-awareness and the distributed observation of
events. | |
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Alastair Beresford
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Alastair Beresford
University of
Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering Laboratory for
Communications Engineering, CUED, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB3
0HL United Kingdom
Email: arb33@cam.ac.uk Phone: +44 1223 766513 Web: http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/ |
I am a PhD student in the Laboratory for Communications
Engineering, University of Cambridge, England.
My PhD
research is focused on increasing user privacy in location-aware
applications; I am currently exploring several techniques,
including:
(1) Anonymizing location information; (2)
Applying role-based access control methods to location services such
as SPIRIT and QoSDream.
My research takes a practical as
well as theoretical stance through analysis of location-aware
applications driven by our AT&T Bat location system (50 badge
location updates per second, with an accuracy of >3cm in three
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Jan Beutel
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Jan Beutel
ETH Zurich,
TIK Gloriastr. 35 Zurich 8092 Switzerland
Email:
j.beutel@ieee.org Phone: +41-1-6327032 Web: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~beutel/ |
My research focusses on distributed positioning algorithms for
wireless ad-hoc networks.
I am interested in the
following areas: - Wireless ad-hoc networking - Intergating
network services with communication protocols - Bluez protocol
stack for linux - Packet based wireless communication protocols
- System design aspects of all kinds of wireless systems -
Hardware for wireless systems, hw-sw codesign, partitioning -
Global Positioning System (GPS), Glonass and Galileo
For
further infos and publications please refer to my research homepage:
http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~beutel/ | |
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Mark Billinghurst
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Mark Billinghurst
University of
Washington, Human Interface Technology Laboratory 5230 15th Ave NE
Seattle, Washington 98105 USA
Email: grof@hitl.washington.edu Phone: +1-206-616-1491 Fax:
+1-206-543-5380 Web: http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/grof |
I have just completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering with a
thesis on Collaborative Augmented Reality.
I am interested
in getting a good grounding in ubiquitous and pervasive computing
for research work that I intend doing in the future. In addition to
gaining a good overview of current research in the field I'm hoping
to use the workshop as an opportunity to network with researchers
with similar interests and to establish some research
collaborations.
I am particularly interested in how
ubiquitous computing technology could be used to support face to
face and remote collaboration. I think that this is an important
research area that has needs further work. Although I have not begun
work in the area yet, I will do so later this year. In particular I
am interested in how people can use handeld (PDA) devices to
interact with smart spaces to support collaboration. This enables
users to have a private handheld display as well as a public display
space that they can move data between. Interaction and display
techniques for this type of interface and the effect that this might
have on the collaboration are areas of
interest. | |
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Sonja Buchegger
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Sonja Buchegger
IBM Zurich
Research Laboratory, EPFL Lausanne Breitensteinstrasse 88 Zurich
CH-8037 Switzerland
Email: sonja@computer.org Phone: 01-7248237 Fax: 01-7248955 Web: http://www.zurich.ibm.com/~sob |
My main research interest (i.e., my Ph.D. thesis topic) is on
cooperation of nodes for routing and forwarding in mobile ad-hoc
networks, where nodes do not rely on any routing infrastructure but
relay packets for each other. Thus communications in mobile ad-hoc
networks work properly only if the participating nodes cooperate in
routing and forwarding. However, it may be advantageous for
individual nodes not to cooperate, for example to save power or to
launch security attacks such as denial-of-service. I developed a
protocol, called CONFIDANT, to mitigate the effect of such
misbehavior, it aims at detecting and isolating misbehaving nodes,
thus making it unattractive to deny cooperation. Trust relationships
and routing decisions are based on experienced, observed, or
reported routing and forwarding behavior of other nodes. For some
details see our paper at MobiHOC 2002. I am interested in
game-theoretic and Bayesian approaches to evaluate and improve
cooperation among network nodes. Other research interests
include peer-to-peer networks, network security, sensor networks,
and overlay networks.
Background: Since February 2000 I have
been an off-site Ph.D. student at EPFL Lausanne, Communications
Systems. My advisor is Prof. Jean-Yves Le Boudec. I have been
working at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Networking Software
Group, since April 1999. Our current project is on network
appliances for massively distributed applications, e.g.,
games. | |
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Thomas Buchholz
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Thomas
Buchholz
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Department of
Communication Systems and Computer Networks Hugo-Weiss-Straße 90
Muenchen, Bayern 81827 Germany
Email: buchholz@informatik.uni-muenchen.de Phone: 089 2180 9861 Fax: 089 2180 99 9861 Web:
http://wwwmnmteam.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~buchholz/ |
I own a joint master's degree in Business Administration and
Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt. I
specialized in distributed multimedia systems and internet
technology. My main educators were Ralf Steinmetz from the Technical
University of Darmstadt, for whom I worked for about a year as
assistant staff, and Klara Nahrstedt at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, where I spent a year in her research group
working on adaptive mechanisms for MPEG-2 streaming in a live- and
potentially wireless scenario. Since 1st of March this year, I am a
PhD student at the Department of Communication Systems and Computer
Networks at the LMU Munich (Prof. Hegering & Prof.
Linnhoff-Popien).
I am currently engaged in a research
endeavour trying to scale existing smart space test-beds to a
country-wide scope. This project is named "context-aware services
for UMTS". Our partners are Siemens Corporate Technology and Apollis
Interactive, a start-up company that was the first to offer a
location-based service in Germany. The project is financed by the
State of Bavaria. The focus of our work is to develop a framework
for the provision of context information in cellular networks and to
prove our concepts by implementing prototypes. The framework is
necessary to decouple the provisioning of context from its usage,
thereby allowing for a new business role called context
provider. | |
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Ozan Cakmakci
Ozan Cakmakci
UCF, Florida, CREOL
(Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers) 8336 East D.E.
Ave Richland, MI 49083 USA
Email: cakmakci@msu.edu Web: http://iihm.imag.fr/cakmakci |
Biography
Ozan Cakmakci received his bachelor of science
degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in
1999. Ozan has worked at BMW Research, Munich, Germany; Starlab
Research in Brussels, Belgium and the human-computer interaction
group at the University of Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France.
He will start graduate school in optics at CREOL (Center for
Research in Optics and Lasers) in Florida (UCF) under the direction
of Jannick Rolland.
Research Interests
I am
interested in the research question of how we can build natural
extensions to our minds and bodies. In particular, I view ubiquitous
and wearable computing, augmented reality, human perception and
optics as a set of tools and approaches to prototype towards this
research question.
Publications
Biocca, F.,
Cakmakci, O., Czischke, J., DeVries, J., Huang, H., Kind, K., Nowak,
K., Witt, M. (1998) "Virtual & Augmented Reality" In A. Grant.
Communication Technology Update. 6th Ed. Butterworth-Heinemann.
O. Cakmakci, J. Coutaz, K. Van Laerhoven, H. Gellersen.
Context awareness in systems with limited resources. ECAI workshop
on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2002), Lyon,
France.
O. Cakmakci. A magnetic finger tracker. Proc. 9th
International on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI 2001). August 5-10,
2001, New Orleans, LA, USA.
K. Van Laerhoven and O.
Cakmakci. What shall we teach our pants? In Proc. International
Conference on Wearable Computing (ISWC 2000), Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Jochen Denzinger
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Jochen Denzinger
Fraunhofer IMK,
MARS – Exploratory Media Lab Schloss Birlinghoven Sankt Augustin
D-53754 Germany
Email: jochen.denzinger@imk.fraunhofer.de Phone: +49-(0)2241-14-3441 Fax:
+49-(0)2241-14-2133 Web: http://www.imk.fraunhofer.de/mars |
Jochen Denzinger holds a master in industrial design and is
currently working for the MARS Exploratory Media Lab/ Fraunhofer
Gesellschaft. He is mainly concerned with questions in the domain of
information architecture, interaction- and interfacedesign.
From 1997 till 2000 JD worked as a freelance software
designer. One of his main projects was his work for the IPSI
(Institut für Integrierte Publikations- und Informationssysteme) of
the former GMD in Darmstadt in the team of Norbert Streitz on topics
as cscw and augmented reality. (http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente)
Until march 2002 he worked as a researcher at Hochschule für
Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (Dpt. Industrial Design).
Currently JD is writing on his phd-thesis on the subject of
design and ubiquitous computing at Prof. Mihai Nadin (Universität
Wuppertal/ Dpt. Computational Design). Looking from a designer's
perspective the work examines the question of the mutual influences
of ubiquitous computing on the discipline of design and the possible
roles of design in ubicomp.
For his thesis JD provides a
website: http://www.designing-ubicomp.com
(currently only German)
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I am interested in the
"Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing" as it seems a
quite unique opportunity to get an overview and insight on my phd's
topic from different perspectives. I expect to broaden my view due
to interpersonal communications. I would like to contribute to
the workshop talking on ubicomp under a design perspective.
JD | |
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Esko Dijk
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Esko Dijk
Technical University
Eindhoven / Philips Research Eindhoven Den Dolech 2 Eindhoven
5600MB Netherlands
Email: e.dijk@tue.nl Phone: +31-40-2742256
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1. Background: Studied electrical engineering (topics: systems
theory, pattern classification). Currently PhD student.
2.
Research field: location and context awareness, location technology
based on ultrasound. (See summary below)
3. Expecting from
the summerschool: Meet people who work on all types of location
systems and models! Also educate myself more broadly in the UbiComp
field.
4. Presentation topic: ultrasound positioning
technology.
Research summary:
Many Context Aware
applications need information on the location of people, objects and
devices. Sometimes orientation or movement information is desired as
well.
We focus on future consumer applications in the home
domain. This domain has a unique combination of requirements: 1.
Low-cost, high-volume electronics ; 2. Low power ; 3. Resolution
required varies from 1 cm to several meters ; 4. Easy installation
by a non-expert user.
A survey of state-of-the-art
technology showed that none of the existing systems could handle all
requirements simultaneously. Ultrasound location technology turned
out to be a promising candidate for accurate indoor location
systems.
Therefore we work on new ultrasound-based
measurement methods and algorithms, that are needed to realise an
in-home 'plug and play' location system. Topics include: System
modelling, optimizing the configuration of transmitters/receivers,
and orientation estimation. | |
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Matthias Dyer
Matthias Dyer
ETH Zurich,
TIK J.C. Heer-Strasse 13 Winterthur
8406 Switzerland
Email: dyer@tik.ee.ethz.ch Phone: +41 1 63 27061
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Background: - Master Thesis on Reconfigurable Computing at
Computer Engineering and Networks Laboratory ETH Zürich in March
2002 - PhD Student for Prof. L. Thiele since May 2002 - SNF
NCCR MICS IP9 Project Member (Mobile Information an Communication
Systems)
Research / Interests: - Reconfigurable Hardware
- Design Space Exploration - Context awareness -
Embedded Systems - Wearables
Current Work: - Design
Space Exploration for Wearable
Systems | |
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Gudrun Fischer
Gudrun Fischer
University of
Dortmund, Computer Science VI, Information
Retrieval August-Schmidt-Str. 12 Dortmund
D-44227 Germany
Email: fischer@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de Phone: +49 2 31 / 7 55 - 58 43 Fax: +49 2 31 / 7
55 - 24 05 Web: http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/~fischer/ |
I am a PhD student and researcher at the University of Dortmund,
in the Information Retrieval group with Norbert Fuhr.
Some
of our IR projects, e.g. the Cyclades project where I am involved,
already feature at least Web-based personal workspaces and other
location-independent services. Within our research group, we expect
that the goal of "finding the relevant information in any situation
(anywhere, anytime)" will become a highly relevant topic of
Information Retrieval in the future. Thus, we expect ubiquitous
computing to have a strong impact on our area of research in future
years.
With this in mind, I hope to get an overview over the
field which I could then share with my IR colleagues. I am curious
about the visions of ubiquitous Information Retrieval we will
develop on this basis. | |
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Hannes Frey
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Hannes Frey
University of Trier,
System Software and Distributed Systems Frauenstr. 5 Trier
54290 Germany
Email: frey@syssoft.uni-trier.de Phone: +49 651 22561 Web: http://www.syssoft.uni-trier.de/systemsoftware/ |
After studying Computer Science at the University of Trier
(Germany), since November 2001 I am working on my PhD thesis. I am
employed as a scientific assistant at the research group for System
Software and Distributed Systems at the University of Trier. I
participate in the SOUL project (self organized ubiquitous
learning), which is funded by DFG, Schwerpunktprogramm SPP1140
"Basissoftware für selbstorganisierende Infrastrukturen für
vernetzte mobile Systeme". This project covers the design of
middleware components for networked mobile systems and their
experimental validation in the scope of self organizing university
exercises. Currently we are working on the design of a novel
communication pattern for mobile ad-hoc networks based on a market
place metaphor. A marketplace is a fixed geographical location where
information is traded at given times. Client requests or agents
acting on behalf of the client travel to the marketplace by
infecting promising nearby devices. When arriving at the
marketplace, the device actually hosing the request or agent is
searching for matching peers by periodically announcing the set of
requirements. At a given deadline or if a sufficient number of
matching peers is found, the response resp. the successful agent
will travel back to the home coordinates of the initiator. A paper
with the protocol description and simulation results has been
submitted to KIVS 2003 (Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen
2003). | |
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Robert Harle
Robert Harle
University of
Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering CUED, Trumpington
Street Cambridge, Cambs CB2 1PZ United Kingdom
Email:
rkh23@cam.ac.uk Phone: +44 1223 765150 Fax: +44 1223
766517
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I am currently researching computer environment learning in a
pervasive location system. At the Laboratory for Communications
Engineering, Cambridge University, we have installed the active bat
ultrasonic location system, which is used to provide a
context-aware, pervasive computing environment that is in day-to-day
use. Currently, such location technologies require large initial
input from the user to provide a model of the world, within which
people and objects are located. My research centres around the
wealth of information that can be derived from the data discarded by
the system as irrelevant to positioning. My aim is to create a
pervasive system that learns its environment (rooms, spaces, and
their usage) and adapts accordingly to improve itself, and provide
new applications.
The research I am doing has strong links
with sentient computing, tagging, security, image recognition,
probability theory, autonomous navigation and general computer
learning. However, very little research exists in the precise area,
and I wish to attend the summer school to gain contacts in the area,
and to broaden my general knowledge of the cutting edge of pervasive
computing, in the hope that it will inspire the future course of
this research. | |
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Dominik Heckmann
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Dominik Heckmann
DFKI
Saarbrücken Kleegartenstraße 13 Schwalbach
66773 Germany
Email: heckmann@dfki.de Phone: 0681 302 3496 Web: http://www.dfki.de/~heckmann |
Hello, I am a PhD student at the European Post-Graduate College
for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems in Saarbruecken and
Edinburgh. The title of my thesis is "Ubiquitous User Modeling for
situated Interaction". I try to merge User Modeling with Ubiquitous
Computing. My first supervisor is Prof. Dr. Wahlster from DFKI
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence). My most recent
paper is "Empirically Grounded Decision-Theoretic Adaptation to
Situation-Dependent Resource Limitations" (Thorsten Bohnenberger,
Boris Brandherm, Barbara Großmann-Hutter, Dominik Heckmann, Frank
Wittig), Special Issue "Adaptivity and User Modeling", KI-Journal,
Vol.3, 2002 (in press, http://dfki.de/~jameson/abs/BohnenbergerBG+02.html) | |
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Adolf Hohl
Adolf Hohl
University of Freiburg,
Institute for Computer Science and Social Studies Friedrichstrasse 50
Freiburg 79098 Germany
Email: hohl@iig.uni-freiburg.de Phone: +49 761 203 4931 Fax: +49 761 203
4929
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background: computer scientist focus: security &
pervasive computing expectations: learn more about pervasive
computing and feedback to my contribution contribution: new
addressing scheme for pervasive
devices | |
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Nataliya Hristova
Nataliya Hristova
University
College Dublin Belfield Dublin D4 Ireland
Email:
nataliya.hristova@ucd.ie Phone: +353 -1-716 2491 Fax: +353-1-269
7262 Web: http://destiny.ucd.ie/ |
Nataliya Hristova received her M.Sc. Degree with Honours in
Computer Science from University of Shumen “Bishop Konstantin
Preslavski”, Bulgaria, in 1999. She is currently a Ph.D. student in
the Department of Computer Science at University College Dublin. Her
research interests are within the mobile computing,
location-awareness, user modeling, mobile cartography and
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) areas. The focus of her current research
is applying MAS for location-aware, pervasive and personalized
mobile advertising applications for wireless and mobile phone users.
The recent publications listed below describe the work done on
developing a context and location-aware mobile advertising system
named Ad-me.
[1]. Hristova, N., O’Hare, G.M.P., Ad-me: A
Context-Sensitive Advertising System, in Proceedings of the 3rd
Int'l Conference on Information Integration and Web-based
Applications & Services (IIWAS), September, Pub. By Austrian
Computer Society, Linz Austria, 2001.
[2]. Hristova, N.,
O’Hare, G.M.P., Ad-me: Intelligent Context-Sensitive Advertising
within a Mobile Tourist Guide, In Proceedings of the 12th Irish
Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS),
7-9 September, NUI Maynooth, Ireland,
2001. | |
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Tero Häkkinen
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Tero Häkkinen
Tampere University
of Technology, Institute of Electronics P.O. Box 692 Tampere
33101 Finland
Email: tero.hakkinen@tut.fi Phone: +358 3 3115 2153 Fax: +358 3 3115
2620
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I have grauduated (MSc) from the field of electrical engineering
in year 2000. I have worked in the research group of Personal
Electronics at Tampere University of Technology Institute of
Electronics since 1998, first as a research assistant and after
graduation as a researcher and a PhD student.
The focus of
my research is to examine various methods for short range data
communication in wearable and ubiquitous computing. At the moment my
work concentrates on applying Bluetooth technology to communication
needs in smart clothing applications. Previously I have worked on
infrared communication developing a tag system for identification
and positioning purposes. The system was originally intended to be
used with wearable computers. The tag system was also the subject of
my MSc thesis. I have also gained some knowledge on low power 433
MHz radio circuits for low bandwidth data
communication. | |
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Matthias Joest
Matthias Joest
European Media
Laboratory (EML) Villa-Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33a
Heidelberg, Baden/Wuerttemberg 69118 Germany
Email:
matthias.joest@eml.villa-bosch.de Phone: +496221533264
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Orginally I studied Biology and Geography at the University of
Heidelberg. In parallel I started 1998 working in the field of
geomatics on web-mapping solutions and mobile computing within the
project Deep Map at the European Media Laboratory (EML).
2001 I finished my studies and started as a junior
researcher at the EML. My main research fields are mobile computing
and user interface design.
Until now I am working in an
EU-IST project called ATTRACT on intelligent user interfaces.
Since January 2002 I additionally started my PhD with the
focus on user-adaptive and context-aware tourplanning in an mobile
scenario. This research project is called Deep Map II.
I
expect from the sommer school many fruitful discussion with some of
the precursors on ubiquitous computing and context-awareness and I
think that will have a very possitive feedback on my
PhD. | |
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Alexandros Karypidis
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Alexandros Karypidis
Institute of
Computer Science, FO.R.T.H. 26, S. Siniori st. Volos
38334 Greece
Email: karypid@inf.uth.gr Phone: +30 4210 74965
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Alexandros received his diploma from the Computer Science dept.
in May 2000.
He is currently collaborating with the
Institute of Computer Science at FO.R.T.H. (http://www.ics.forth.gr) on the 2WEAR
project (http://2wear.ics.forth.gr).
His research focuses on the area of permanent storage
frameworks for mobile users and ubiquitous computing environments.
His goal is to receive his PhD in this field, from the
Computer & Communications Engineering department of the
University of Thessaly (http://www.uth.gr).
By
attending the workshop he hopes to meet people with radical,
interesting opinions in the ubiquitous and mobile computing field.
Hopefully, through discussions with lecturers and attendants, he
will be able to steer his own research towards a even more
challenging and fun
direction. | |
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Oliver Kasten
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Oliver Kasten
ETH Zurich,
DSG Clausiusstr. 59 Zurich 8092 Switzerland
Email:
oliver.kasten@inf.ethz.ch Phone: +41 1 6320663 Fax: +41 1 6321659 Web: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~kasten/ |
I am a PhD student in the distributed systems group of the
computer science department at ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology) where I currently work in the Smart-Its project (http://www.smart-its.org/).
My research concentrates on infrastructures and middleware
services for collections of smart objects (everyday objects embedded
with computation, communication and sensing) and their applications.
Particularly I pursue the paradigm of virtual counterparts: software
components that interface real-world objects and represent them in
digital space. | |
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Nicky Kern
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Nicky Kern
ETH Zurich, PCCV ETH
Zentrum Zurich 8092 Switzerland
Email: kern@inf.ethz.ch Phone: +41-1-632 04 34 Fax: +41-1-632 15
96
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My work is focused on context aware computing for wearable
computers. It is being conducted as part of the wearable
computing initiative at ETH Zurich. Our vision of a wearable
computer is that of an assistant, that is always on and trying to
support the user in his everyday tasks. Since the computer is
permanently worn by the user, it can perceive the environment in the
same way the user can, "see" what the users, "hear" what the user
hears, etc.
My work is hence focused on extracting
contextual information from multiple sensors in a wearable computer.
This includes context modeling, multi-sensor perception and fusion.
My expectation of the summer school is to get in touch with
the most recent developments in wearable and ubiquitous computing
and the people behind it! | |
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Csaba Kiss Kalló
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Csaba Kiss Kalló
University of
Trento via Sommarive 14 Povo, Trento
38050 Italy
Email: kkcsaba@science.unitn.it Phone: +39 340 2249168 Fax: +39 0461
882093
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I am studying the Bluetooth wireless technology. Inside this
area I am concentrating on scatternet formation protocols and
scatternet topologies. Optimizing scatternets with respect to
routing, load balancing (or other aspects) are also of interest for
me. Localization of Bluetooth devices is another topic that I am
intendig to study soon. | |
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Ursula Kretschmer
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Ursula Kretschmer
Fraunhofer
IGD Fraunhoferstr. 5 Darmstadt
64283 Germany
Email: ursula.kretschmer@igd.fhg.de Phone: ++49-6151-155-413 Fax:
++49-6151-155-444 Web: http://www.igd.fhg.de/igd-a5 |
Ursula Kretschmer graduated from Bonn University with a diploma
in Surveying and Geodesy. At Fraunhofer Institute for Computer
Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany she has been involved in the research
project GEIST. In this project, a mobile system is being developed,
which allows experiencing history within an urban environment. The
system is addressed to students and should help them to learn
historical facts via a thrilling, individual story. Her main
interest lies in the area of Augmented Reality, i.e. to determine
position and orientation of the user. To fade in reconstructions of
buildings in the line of sight of users, she is developing a
videobased tracking system, which uses a 3D model of the environment
as a reference.
Papers dealing with the determination of
position and line of sight of a person:
Coors, V., Huch, T.,
and Kretschmer U.: Matching buildings: Pose estimation in an urban
environment. ISAR 2000
Kretschmer, U., Coors, V., Spierling,
U, Grasbon, D., Schneider, K., Rojas, I., Malaka R.: Meeting the
Spirit of History. VAST 2001
Kretschmer U.: Using Mobile
Systems to transmit Location based Information, submitted to PCV'02
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Rainer Kroh
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Rainer Kroh
DaimlerChrysler
Research & Technology Telematics Research Wilhelm-Runge-Street 11
Ulm 89081 Germany
Email: rainer.kroh@daimlerchrysler.com Phone: +49 731 505 2862 Fax: +49 731 505
4110
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I am working in the DaimlerChrysler Research Department in the
fields of Mobile Computing and Telematics since 1993. The focus of
my research are distributed systems and IT-Security/IT-Privacy. In
my opinion vehicles will also be a part of a future pervasive
computing world (the vehicle as a whole and also the components
inside of a vehicle), therefore I am very interested about all the
coming trends and technologies in the area of ubiquitous and
pervasive computing. Additionally I am sure to meet many people
working in the different fields of ubiquitous computing and maybe
that lead to research collaborations in the future.
I also
want to contribute to the workshop and the topics of my talk will be
in the vehicular
environment. | |
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Jonas Landgren
Jonas Landgren
Viktoria
Institute Viktoriagatan 13, Box 620 Göteborg 411
25 Sweden
Email: jonas.landgren@viktoria.se Fax: +46 (0)31- 773 55 30 Web: http://www.viktoria.se/ |
Jonas Landgren (1971) Msc Informatics (1998), University of
Gothenburg
New member, July 2002, of the Mobile Informatics
group at the Viktoria Institute in Gothenburg, Sweden.
My
general field of interest are mobile solutions that help people make
better decisions and help them learn from past events.
I am
working in a research project named Safe Street. The objectives
of the SafeStreet project is to design and develop mobile solutions
for public safety. The research is conducted in close cooperation
with police and rescue services (fire brigade). The argument
elaborated in this research is that we have democratic right to feel
safe in public places -- SafeStreet, and the we also have a moral
duty to participate in maintaining the SafeStreet.
My part
in this project is to focus on Rescue Services (Fire Brigade) and
their need for mobile solutions for cooperation and
collaboration. | |
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Tatiana Lashina
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Tatiana Lashina
Philips
Electronics Nederland, Research Lab Professor Holstlaan 4 Eindhoven
5656 AA Netherlands
Email: Tatiana.Lashina@philips.com Phone: +31 40 27 43464 Fax: +31 40 27
44918 Web: http://www.research.philips.com/ |
I have graduated from the Belorussian State University, Minsk,
and obtained a Master of Science in radiophysics and electronics.
The topic of my graduation work was 'Restoring an image from
distortions introduced by the apparatus using the neural network
approach'. Immediately after I have entered the postgraduate
programme in User-System Interaction provided by the Eindhoven
University of Technology, Netherlands. After completing the
programme I began at Philips Research in the group Media Interaction
led by Professor Emile Aarts. My research interests include
multimodal user interfaces, context awareness and user interface
input technologies.
My motivation to participate in the
summer school training is driven by the possibilities to exchange
knowledge with other participants, broaden my knowledge about the
field and to build a coherent view on the state of the art in
pervasive computing.
I would like to contribute to the
workshop programme by presenting the work on the Context Aware
Personal Remote Control. | |
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Paul Lukowicz
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Paul Lukowicz
ETH Zurich, Wearable
Computing Lab, IfE Gloriastr. 35 Zurich
8092 Switzerland
Email: lukowicz@ife.ee.ethz.ch Phone: +41/1/6327614 Fax: +41/1/6321210
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I have received a MSc degree in Computer Science in 1992 and in
Physics in 1993 and a Ph.D in 1999 all from the University of
Karlsruhe in Germany. Since 1999 I am postdoctoral researcher in
charge of the Wearable Computing Lab and the Computer Architecture
Group at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical
Engineering of the ETH Zurich. In my research I concentrate on
architectural and system design issues in wearable computing as well
as on multisensor systems for context recognition. I have been in
charge of the development of the WearARM wearable system build in
our lab. Currently my focus is on modeling and evaluating different
variants of heterogenous, distributed wearable architectures with
respect to their performance and power consumption for different
applications. An important part of such architectures are
distributed sensor units that can be used to derive complex
information about the user's context and activity from simple
signals.
I would like to contribute to the workshop by
presenting the architecture concept, model and implementation of our
wearable computing and sensing system. This could be a good starting
point for discussion with other participants about the system
requirements of different wearable and ubiquitous applications. I am
particularly interested in the types of context information that
people would find useful for their
applications. | |
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Filipe Meneses
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Filipe Meneses
University of
Minho, Information Systems Department Information Systems Department,
Campus de Azurém, University of Minho Guimarães
4800-058 Portugal
Email: meneses@dsi.uminho.pt Phone: +351253510259 Fax: +351253510250 Web: http://www.dsi.uminho.pt/get |
Since 1999 I have been working with the Telecomputing
Engineering Group of the Information Systems Department of the
University of Minho. With this group I have participated in the
Around and Hypergeo projects where we have developed some
context-aware services and applications. In 2001 I have
presented my MsC dissertation with the title “Applications to access
localized information” and I’m now starting my PhD studies focusing
my work in the location management for context-aware applications in
mobile systems.
List fo publications: - Filipe Meneses,
“Applications to access location-based information”, Dissertação de
mestrado, Setembro 2001. - Filipe Meneses, Adriano Moreira, Rui
José, “How do I design a location-dependent application?”, SPIE’s
Internation Symposium on the convergence of Information Technologies
and Communications - ITCOM 2001, Denver, Colorado, EUA. 20 a 24 de
Agosto, 2001. Pag. 28-36. - Rui José, Adriano Moreira, Filipe
Meneses, Geoff Coulson, “An Open Architecture for Developing Mobile
Location-Based Applications over the Internet”, 6th IEEE Symposium
on Computer and Communications, Hammamet, Tunisia. 3 a 5 de Julho,
2001.
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Florian Michahelles
Florian Michahelles
ETH Zurich,
PCCV IFW D29.2, Haldeneggsteig 4 Zurich
8092 Switzerland
Email: michahelles@inf.ethz.ch Phone: 632 7477 Web: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~michahel |
My current research interests are self-organizing sensors,
context-aware and perceptual computing. My focus is particularly on
multi-sensor fusion and perception. I started as a Ph.D. student at
the Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group of Bernt Schiele
at ETH one year ago. So far I worked on an approach which allows to
reveal a user's context in a self-organized sensor network without a
central point of control. A uniform communication scheme, referred
to as Smart Context-Aware Packet's (sCAP's), allows single sensors
to share sensed data and to cooperate in order to build a meaningful
context model from manifold inputs. My work is currently funded by
the Smart-Its project. I'm looking forward to meeting other
young ubicomp-researchers, discussing and sharing knowledge and
research interests with them.
Education
Dipl.-Informatiker (M.Sc. in Computer Science)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany, March 2001.
Sloan Business School Visiting Fellow at MIT Sloan School of
Management, Cambridge/Massachusetts, Spring 2000.
Center
for Digital Technology and Management, Munich, Germany.
Experience Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration,
Reykjavík, Iceland Internship (June '98 - September '98)
Project: Flight Data Processing System (FDPS), DB performance
optimization
Universidade São Francisco, Itatiba/São
Paulo, Brazil Internship (February '00 - May '00 Advisor:
Dr. Carlos Camara Project: Mobile Telephone Communication
Infrastructure planning
MyAlert.com Madrid, Spain
Internship as an MIT Entrepreneurship Lab student Project:
Strategic Consulting, Developing an US-market-entry strategy
Distributed Wearable Augmented Reality Framework (DWARF),
Munich, Germany Research Project (June '00 - December '00)
Advisor: Prof. B. Brügge Project: Developing an modular
architecture for wearable computing
Publications
Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly, Stavros
Antifakos, Florian Michahelles and Bernt Schiele, To Appear: In The
Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp
2002, Göteborg, Sweden, September 2002.
Detecting
Context in Distributed Sensor Networks by Using Smart Context-Aware
Packets, Florian Michahelles, Michael Samulowitz and Bernt
Schiele, To appear in: In International Conference on Architecture
of Computing Systems (ARCS), 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany, April
2002.
Smart CAPs for Smart Its - Context Detection for
Mobile Users, Florian Michahelles, Michael Samulowitz, Third
International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile
Devices (MobileHCI), at IHM-HCI 2001, Lille, France, September
2001.
CAPEUS: An Architecture for Context-Aware
Selection and Execution of Services, M. Samulowitz, F.
Michahelles, C. Linnhoff-Popien. To be published at: The Third
IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference on Distributed
Applications and Interoperable Systems (DAIS'2001 Conference),
Krakow, Poland, September 2001.
Adaptive Interaction for
Enabling Pervasive Services, M. Samulowitz, F. Michahelles, C.
Linnhoff-Popien. To be published at: 2nd ACM International
Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
(MobiDE01), Santa Barbara, California, USA, May 2001.
Designing an Architecture for Context-Aware Service
Selection and Execution, Florian Michahelles. Diploma Thesis,
Institute for Computer Science, LMU München, March 2001.
Foreign languages German (native) English (very good
written/spoken) Portuguese (advanced knowledge ) Icelandic
(basic knowledge) Russian (basic knowledge)
Outside
interests and activities extended travels (Israel, Iceland,
Kyrgyzstan); climbing, trekking, ski hiking, snowshoeing, inline
skating, Capoeira, cycling and surfing. Coach and
referee of a Judo Club Certified guide at a Mountain Club (DAV)
International and National Politics,
Economics. | |
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Martin Muehlenbrock
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Martin Muehlenbrock
Xerox Research
Centre Europe 6 chemin de Maupertuis Meylan
38240 France
Email: muehlenbrock@xrce.xerox.com Phone: 0033476614116 Fax: 0033476615039 Web: http://http//www.xrce.xerox.com |
Background: - Member of the research group on "Contextual
Computing" and "Devices & Intermediation" at the Xerox Research
Center Europe (XRCE), Grenoble, France - Ph.D. in Computer
Science (computer-supported collaborative learning, intelligent
support, shared workspace systems) - Diploma in Computer Science
(machine learning, cognitive modelling, explanations for the
day/night cycle)
Expectations: - Making contacts with
distinguished scholars and other people working in this field -
Learn and discuss about research questions, new technologies and
platforms
Contribution: - Present briefly some of the
activities in this area at the Xerox Research Center Europe -
Report about a recent pilot project for visitor support, with
location detection using signal strength in a wireless
LAN | |
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Tatsuo Nakajima
Tatsuo Nakajima
Waseda University,
Department of Information and Computer Science Build 61-505 3-4-1 Okubo
Shinjuku Tokyo 169-8555 Japan
Email: tatsuo@mn.waseda.ac.jp Phone: +81-3-5286-3185 Fax:
+81-3-5286-3185
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I'm working on software infrastructure for ubiquitous computing.
Our group is currently working on buidling three systems. The first
one is middleware for home computing, the second one is middleware
for building smart spaces, and the last one is middleware for
personal devices. We are also interested in developping a frameworks
for context-aware software. We have actually developped user
interface middleware for selecting input/output interaction devices
dynamically without modifying existing applications that adopt
traditional GUI toolkits.
We are interested in to discuss
appropriate high level abstraction and system supports for
ubiquitous computing. Also, we like to discuss how to develop
context-aware applications in a systematic way.
We have
developped middleware, operating system and networking supports for
home computing for a couple of years. Thus, we can talk about system
supports for home computing if you
like. | |
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Andronikos Nedos
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Andronikos Nedos
Trinity College
Dublin, Distributed Systems Group 11 Ossary Road, Northstrand
Dublin Dublin 3 Ireland
Email: Andronikos.Nedos@cs.tcd.ie Phone: +353 /1 6081543 Fax: +353 /1
6772204
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I am currently a first year Ph.D student in TCD and a Research
Assistant in the GloSS project (http://www.gloss.cs.strath.ac.uk/)
part of the EU's Dissapearing Computing initiative.
I am
investigating models and middleware components for Context Aware and
Ubiquitous Computing. I am also interested in Ad Hoc Networks and
Mobile Computing and the requirements to support innovative
context-aware applications and
protocols. | |
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Chaki Ng
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Chaki Ng
Harvard
University Maxwell Dworkin 309, 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA
02138 USA
Email: chaki@eecs.harvard.edu Phone: 617-901-3811 Web: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~chaki |
I am a 1st PhD student at Harvard University, working with Prof.
Margo Seltzer and Prof. David Parkes. I am interested in applying
mechanism design (economics) techniques to pervasive/distributed
systems.
My background includes years in the educational
technology industry. I've been working with Interactive Constructs
which build e-learning systems and projects for publishing companies
like Pearson and Harcourt. I have degrees from MIT Sloan and
Northeastern University.
My website is at http://www.chaki.com. | |
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Stina Nylander
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Stina Nylander
Swedish Institute
of Computer Science Lägerhyddsvägen 18 Uppsala
75237 Sweden
Email: stina.nylander@sics.se Web: http://www.sics.se/~stny |
I work as a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, and I am a PhD student at the department of information
technology at Uppsala university. I have a Master degree in
Computational Linguistics.
My research focus is
human-computer interaction and device independent mobile services. I
work with finding ways to develop services that are cross platform
and that can adapt to the different devices or platforms that they
running on or are accessed from. Computing devices of today are very
different in their capability of presenting information, accept
input and many other areas that highly affect the users experience.
This means that services will have to adapt their user interface and
functionality to be able to present good user
interaction. | |
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Kasper Halleborg Pedersen
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Kasper Halleborg
Pedersen
University of Southern Denmark, Maersk
Institute Campusvej 55 Odense M
5230 Denmark
Email: khp@mip.sdu.dk Phone: +45 65503585 Fax: +45 66157697 Web: http://www.mip.sdu.dk/~khp |
I'm a first year Ph.D. student, at the Maersk Institute at
University of Southern Denmark, working on framework development for
the TangO conceptual model. TangO is a conceptual model for
pervasive computing, where we try to model the pervasive world in
terms of habitats, tangible objects, and associations. The concepts
are related to physical, logical, and informational spaces.
Currently I'm working on Jini as a technological platform
for the framework, and I am trying to implement simple pervasive
systems to justify the power of the Jini technology.
I hope
the summer school will widen my view of pervasive and ubiquitous
computing. The topics for the school seem very interesting, and they
are all topics I have given some thoughts during my research
project.
For the talk, I would like to talk a little about
the TangO conceptual model in terms of Jini, and properly
demonstrate, some of the
applications. | |
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Mario Pichler
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Mario Pichler
Software Competence
Center Hagenberg Hauptstraße 99 Hagenberg, Upper Austria
4232 Austria
Email: mario.pichler@scch.at Phone: +43 7236 3343 898 Fax: +43 7236 3343
888 Web: http://www.scch.at/index.jsp?menu=alphabetical&link=/staff/person.jsp&id=1489 |
Biography
Mario Pichler graduated from the Johannes
Kepler University Linz, Austria, in 2001 with a Master's degree in
Computer Science. His Master's thesis research was about 'the
application of groupware tools in multidisciplinary development
teams'. Mario is now working in the Database and Software Technology
Areas at the Software Competence Center Hagenberg, where he
currently plans his doctoral work.
Research Interests
While in general he is interested in a number of areas of
ubiquitous and pervasive computing, mobile and wireless computing,
peer-to-peer computing as well as CSCW and groupware, his current
research focus is on software architectures and middleware for
wireless and mobile applications. He is especially interested in
solutions supporting the development of mobile peer-to-peer and
spontaneous/ad hoc collaboration applications to support chance
encounters and mobile teamwork for instance.
Recent
Publications
Thomas Hofer, Wieland Schwinger, Mario Pichler,
Gerhard Leonhartsberger, Josef Altmann: Context-Awareness on Mobile
Devices - The Hydrogen Approach. Submitted to HICSS36, Hilton
Waikoloa Village, Island of Hawaii (Big Island), January 6-9, 2003.
Mario Pichler, Thomas Hofer, Gerhard Leonhartsberger:
Considerations and Requirements for Tools Supporting Mobile Teams.
International Workshop on Mobile Teamwork 2002, Vienna, Austria,
July 2, 2002.
Mario Pichler, Thomas Hofer, Gerhard
Leonhartsberger: Bringing Together People: Social Benefit of Mobile
Ad Hoc Applications. CHI2002 Workshop on Mobile Ad Hoc
Collaboration, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, April 22,
2002. | |
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Yves Punie
Yves Punie
Institute for
Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) (JRC-EC) Edificio Expo WTC,
C/Inca Garcilaso (Isla de la Cartuja) Sevilla, Sevilla
41092 Spain
Email: yves.punie@jrc.es Phone: +34 95 448 82 29 Fax: +34 95 448
8208 Web: http://www.jrc.es/ |
I have a PhD. in Social Sciences from the Free University of
Brussels (VUB). My doctoral thesis was on the use and acceptance of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in everyday life,
also known as ‘domestication of ICTs’ (June 2000). Its objective was
to study, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how people in their
everyday lives deal with ICTs, why (or why not) they accept them,
buy them and use them. The focus was on a broad range of
technologies, such as the VCR, TV, PC, Internet, mobile phones, etc.
Before joining IPTS as a post-doc research fellow in May
2001, I was senior researcher at SMIT (Studies on Media, Information
and Telecommunication, VUB) (http://www.vub.ac.be/SCOM/smit/uk-smit.html).
The Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) is
one of the joint research centres of the European Commission. The
mission of IPTS is to provide techno-economic analysis to support
the European decision-makers. It monitors and analyses science and
technology related developments, their cross-sectoral impacts,
interrelationships and implications for future policy development.
(www.ipts.es).
My main project
for the coming year at IPTS is on the future of domestic new media
technologies, and here, of course, comes ubiquitous computing around
the corner. I am aiming at mapping the applicability of ubiquitous
computing or ambient intelligence (AmI) technologies for the home
environment. The project builds upon the so-called ISTAG scenarios
of AmI in 2010, developed by IPTS and ISTAG. See:http://www.cordis.lu/ist/istag.htm).
Ami@Home, as I called the project, aims not only at mapping
AmI technologies for the home, but should also give an account of
the social, economical and policy issues at stake (including RTD).
List of recent/relevant publications: Beslay, L. &
Punie, Y. (in press), ‘The virtual residence: Identity, privacy and
security’, The IPTS Report, 67, September 2002.
Punie, Y.,
Burgelman, J-C. & Bogdanowicz, M. (2002), ‘The future of online
media industries. Scenarios for 2005 and beyond’, The IPTS Report,
64, May 2002, 35-42.
Punie, Y. (2001), Technology
Roadmapping as a forward-looking instrument to map technological
developments and the positioning of Europe, Background document for
the IPTS/ESTO internal workshop on Technology Roadmapping, Brussels,
15 October 2001.
Frissen, V. & Punie, Y. (2001), Present
users, future homes. A theoretical perspective on acceptance and use
of ICT in the home environment, Position Paper STB-01-30a for the
Media@Home project, TNO, Delft, May
2001. | |
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Jaana Rantanen
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Jaana Rantanen
Tampere University
of Technology, Institute of Electronics Korkeakoulunkatu 3 Tampere
33720 Finland
Email: jaana.rantanen@tut.fi Phone: + 358 3 3115 3401 Fax: + 358 3 3115
2620
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Since 1997 I have been working at the Institute of Electronics
at Tampere Univeristy of Technology. The projects that I have
been participating in have dealt with wearable electronics. As a
postgraduate student I'm concentrating on basic research. At the
moment communication and usability issues as well as problems with
physical construnction on smart clothing ( e.g. problems with
connecting devices etc.) are the focus areas. In January 2002 I was
accepted to the Graduate School of User-Centered Information
Technology.
CV
Education M.Sc. in 1999
Tampere University of Technology Thesis Work: Input Methods in
Wearable Computing
Working experience Several summer
jobs 1990-1996 Research Assistant 1997-1999 Tampere Univeristy
of Technology, Institute of Electronics Research Scientist 1999-
Tampere University of Technology, Institute of Electronics
Publications Rantanen, J., Reho, A., Tasanen, M.,
Karinsalo, T. & Vanhala, J. 2000. Monitoring of the User's
Vital Functions and Environment in Reima Smart Clothing Prototype.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine
Automation, ICMA2000, Osaka, Japan, 27-29.9.2000, Japan Society
for Precision Engineering & International Federation for Theory
of Machines and Mechanics, pp. 177-182.
Rantanen, J.,
Alfthan, N., Impiö, J., Karinsalo, T., Malmivaara, M., Matala, R.,
Mäkinen, M., Reho, A., Talvenmaa, P., Tasanen, M. & Vanhala,
J. 2000. Smart Clothing for the Arctic Environment. Proceedings
of the Fourth International Symposium on Wearable Computers,
Atlanta, GA, USA, 16-17.10.2000, IEEE, pp.15-23.
Rantanen, J., Reho, A., Tasanen, M., Karinsalo, T. &
Vanhala, J. 2001. Monitoring of the User's Vital Functions and
Environment in Reima Smart Clothing Prototype. Edited by Arai,
E., Arai, T. & Takano, M. Human Friendly Mechatronics,
Selected Papers of the International Conference on Machine
Automation, ICMA2000, 27-29.9.2000, Osaka, Japan. Elsevier,
Amsterdam, pp.25-30.
Rantanen, J., Ryynänen, O., Kukkonen,
K., Vuorela, T., Siili A. & Vanhala, J. 2001. Electrically
Heated Clothing. The 5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, USA, 22-25.7.2001,
IIIS & IFSR, pp. 490-495.
Kukkonen, K., Vuorela, T.,
Rantanen, J., Ryynänen, O., Siili, A. & Vanhala, J. 2001.
The Design and Implementation of Electrically Heated Clothing.
The Fifth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Zürich,
Sveitsi, 8-9.10.2001, IEEE, pp.180-181.
Rantanen, J:,
Vuorela, T., Kukkonen, K., Ryynänen, O., Siili, A. & Vanhala, J.
2001. Improving Human Thermal Comfort with Smart Clothing. IEEE
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2001 Conference, Tucson, AZ, USA,
7-10.10.2001, IEEE, pp. 795-800.
Salonen, P., Keskilammi,
M., Rantanen, J & Sydänheimo, L. 2001. A Novel Bluetooth
Antenna on Flexible Substrate for Smart Clothing. IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics 2001 Conference, Tucson, AZ, USA, 7-10.10.2001,
IEEE, pp. 689-794.
Salonen, P. & Rantanen, J. 2001. A
Dual-Band Antenna on Flexible Substrate for Smart Clothing. The
27th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Denver, CO, USA, 29.11-2.12.2001, pp. 125-130.
Rantanen,
J., Impiö, J., Karinsalo, T., Malmivaara, M., Reho, A., Tasanen, M.
& Vanhala, J. 2001. Smart Clothing Prototype for the Arctic
Environment. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Vol. 6, No. 1,
pp. 3-16.
Rantanen, J., Jokinen, E., Reini, J. &
Vanhala, J. 2002. Usability Study of CityGuide: A Mobile Mapping
Application. 9th IEEE International Conference on
Telecommunication, ICT 2002, 23-26 June, 2002, Beijing, China.
(Accepted)
Rantanen, J., Hännikäinen, M. & Vanhala, J.
2002. Wireless Communication Technologies for Smart Clothing.
The 6th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and
Informatics, Orlando, FL, USA, 14-18.7.2002.
(Accepted) | |
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Kasim Rehman
Kasim Rehman
University of
Cambridge, Laboratory for Communications Engineering Trumpington Street
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1PZ United
Kingdom
Email: kr241@cam.ac.uk Web: http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~kr241/ |
I obtained a "Master of Engineering" degree from Imperial
College, London in 2000. After that, I started a PhD at Cambridge
University.
My main interest is in improving usability
aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In a survey of more
than 100 Ubiquitous Computing Applications (available at my web
site) I found that most of these problems arise from the fact that
the system->user (as opposed to user->system) communication
channel is mostly very limited. I intend to alleviate this problem
by using "Augmented Reality" in order to place interaction-related,
dynamically changing information "in the world". The result shall be
a Graphical User Interface for an environment. A "meta-user
interface" that abstracts from heterogenous devices, services and
agents shall provide the user with a uniform user interface
layer. | |
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Gerhard Reitmayr
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Gerhard Reitmayr
Vienna University
of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9-11/188/2 Vienna
1040 Austria
Email: reitmayr@ims.tuwien.ac.at Phone: ++43 1 58801 18856 Fax: ++43 1 58801
18898 Web: http://www.ims.tuwien.ac.at/ |
Gerhard Reitmayr is researcher at the Interactive Media Systems
Group (IMS) at the Vienna University of Technology. After
graduating in engineering mathematics from Vienna University of
Technology, he has now enrolled in the PhD program.
His
research is focused on user interfaces and software technologies for
mobile augmented reality systems, exploring the possibilities of
collaboration in such spaces. The focus lies on interaction and
augmentation with 3D computer graphics. This work is happening in
the context of a larger augmented reality system called
Studierstube. Other interests involve tracking and location based
services, applications of XML technologies and web based virtual
environments.
Some recent publications : G. Reitmayr, D.
Schmalstieg Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality Proc.
ISAR 2001, New York, USA, Oct. 2001.
G. Reitmayr, D.
Schmalstieg An Open Software Architecture for Virtual Reality
Interaction Proc. VRST'01, Banff, Canada, Nov. 15 - 17, 2001.
The following links give some information on the projects
related to Studierstube. Studierstube - http://www.studierstube.org/
Mobile Collaborative Augmented Reality - http://www.studierstube.org/projects/mobile/ | |
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Steffen Reymann
Steffen Reymann
Philips Research
Laboratories Cross Oak Lane Redhill RH1 5HA United
Kingdom
Email: steffen.reymann@philips.com Phone: +44-1293-815386 Fax:
+44-1293-815500 Web: http://www.research.philips.com/ |
I am a research scientist with Philips Research in the UK since
2001, before that I worked on my PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics
at Kingston University.
My current project 'Context aware
mobile platform' is concerned with possible architectures for such
systems, my primary interest is in the middleware layer (e.g. UPnP
or JXTA). Topics of interest for us are also both the RF side (e.g.
Bluetooth or other short-range bearers) and the application side
(context aware applications) and all the implications coming with
that such as privacy, profiling and so on.
From the workshop
I would expect to learn a lot about the field of course, but also
share the vision on this exiting and important topic and see what
other researchers in the field are
thinking. | |
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Stephanie Riche
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Stephanie Riche
HP Labs
Grenoble 5, avenue Raymond Chanas Eybens
38053 France
Email: stephanie_riche@hp.com Phone: 33476145395 Fax: 33476144468
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I’m a researcher atHP Labs Grenoble since October 2000: http://www.hpl.hp.com/grenoble/index.html
I have an engineer diploma from Supelec where I have
followed a specialization on network systems: http://www.supelec.fr
My
research topic addresses the problem of user personal information
distribution on user devices. This implies a large amount of
challenges such as: - How to provide data availability while
keeping data consistent? - What is trustworthy user storage?
- How should we deal with lightweight devices considering their
limitations (bandwidth, storage resource, battery limitations…)
regarding the storage of user information? - How to provide a
user-friendly storage solution? All the mechanisms put in place to
respond to previous challenges must not spoil the user experience
but facilitate his interaction with the virtual world.
Aside
my research focus, I’m interested in the impact of new technologies
on people and how people interact with these technologies in their
daily life.
From this workshop I expect to confront my ideas
of how to tackle such problems, consolidate my vision of the next
distributed computing generation and get contacts with other people
working in the field. | |
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Matthias Ringwald
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Matthias Ringwald
ETH Zurich,
DSG Haldeneggsteig 4, IFW Zürich
8032 Switzerland
Email: ringwald@inf.ethz.ch Phone: +41-1-63-26132
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I just started my PhD as a member of the Distributed Systems
Group at ETH Zürich. There I'm involved with the usage of ad-hoc
networks based on small microcontrollers in the www.terminodes.org project. I'd
like to see pervasive computing spread into the environment of most
people therefore I'm interested in real-world applications of
ubiquitous computing techniques. I hope to get a good overview of
current research topics from the lectures and to meet some people
for further collaboration.
Brief CV: 2001 Dipl.-Inform.
(MSC like degree) from Universität Karlsruhe 2001 Internship at
GeorgiaTech's Aware Home Research Initiative
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Michael Rohs
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Michael Rohs
ETH Zurich,
DSG Haldeneggsteig 4 Zurich
8092 Switzerland
Email: rohs@inf.ethz.ch Phone: +41 1 632 0859 Fax: +41 1 632 1659 Web:
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~rohs |
I studied computer science at the Darmstadt University of
Technology and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since May
2000 I have been working as a research assistant and PhD student in
the Distributed Systems Group at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH Zurich).
I am interested in distributed
systems, ubiquitous computing, and ubiquitous user interfaces, in
particular in the integration of computational capabilities into
everyday objects and physical environments and their presentation to
users. This includes the development of flexible infrastructures
that support dynamic networking of tiny computing components and
techniques for coupling physical everyday objects with computational
functionality. Another area of interest is security using smart
cards.
Currently, I am involved in the ETH World project -
an initiative to establish a virtual campus augmenting the physical
infrastructure of ETH Zurich. We conduct a subproject called "Entry
Points into the ETH World Infostructure" [1]. Its main objectives
are the interweaving of the infostructure of ETH World with the
physical infrastructure of ETH; the provision and utilization of
location information; and the investigation and evaluation of
privacy and user acceptance aspects.
Past projects include
the CASTING project [2], done jointly with Swisscom AG Bern,
Corporate Technology, in which we explored ways to use mobile phones
as remote card readers to authenticate users and to secure
applications.
The topic of my diploma thesis was the
integration of smart cards in Jini federations. The result is an
architecture that defines a standard way to access smart cards
remotely, explore the services they contain, and make them available
as Jini services. More information can be found on the JiniCard
Homepage [3].
[1] http://www.ethworld.ch/nw/projects/details/137/
[2] http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/res/proj/casting.html
[3] http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~rohs/JiniCard/index.html | |
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Johan Sanneblad
Johan Sanneblad
Viktoria
Institute Box 620 Goteborg 41125 Sweden
Email: johan.sanneblad@viktoria.se Web: http://www.viktoria.se/fal |
I am a Ph. D. student at the newly founded Future Applications
Lab (FAL) at the Viktoria Institute in Goteborg, Sweden. My research
interest focuses on mobile games and services for triggering and
supporting social interaction in everyday places. Recent activities
in the Future Applications Lab includes the development of several
software platforms for handheld devices such as OpenTrek (a platform
for WLAN, GPRS, Bluetooth and IR gaming), GapiDraw (a superset of
DirectDraw optimized for Pocket PCs and Smartphones) and CaféTrek (a
suite of games for handheld computers based on the OpenTrek and the
GapiDraw platforms). Current plans include evaluating the platforms
and services in real environments, such as cafés.
Some web
links: www.opentrek.com www.gapidraw.com www.cafetrek.com | |
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Kulpreet Singh
Kulpreet Singh
Trinity College
Dublin, Distributed Systems Group Computer Science, Trinity College
Dublin 2 Ireland
Email: singhk@cs.tcd.ie Phone: +353-1-608-1539 Web: http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Kulpreet.Singh/ |
I have an interest in developing outdoors, location aware,
ubiquitious environments, that would help the citizens of the morrow
lead an easier and more fruitful life as they go about their daily
tasks in their urban or rural environments.
I am trying to
explore possible wireless network configurations that would help
build such environments. There are questions in my mind as to how
networks need to evolve, given the new requirements of location and
other contextual awareness? | |
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Martin Strohbach
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Martin Strohbach
Lancaster
University Engineering Building, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1
5NQ United Kingdom
Email: strohbach@comp.lancs.ac.uk Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~strohbach |
My research concentrates on the augmentation of every day
objects with sensing, computing and communication capabilities. The
goal is to enhance the user's interaction with his environment. I am
especially interested on relationships between objects and the
exploration what kind of functionality emerges by the dynamic change
of these relationships. This research is closely connected to the
Smart-Its project (http://www.smart-its.org). | |
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Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor
Lancaster
University The Graduate College Lancaster, Lancashire LA2
0PF United Kingdom
Email: m.a.taylor@lancaster.ac.uk Phone: 0870 7536516
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Ubiquitous Computing: context aware senarios using senors (Load
Sensors). | |
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Dario Teixeira
Dario Teixeira
Philips Research /
Technical University Eindhoven Prof. Holstlaan 4 Eindhoven 5656
AA Netherlands
Email: teixeira@natlab.research.philips.com Phone: +31-40-2742355
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I am currently working on my PhD in a joint project between
Philips Research and the Technical University Eindhoven. This
project aims at the development of a "Perceptive Home Environment"
which recognises and adapts itself to its users.
My
background is in Computer Science, and I'm focusing my research on
the development of Conversational Interfaces for finding
information. I am particularly interested in Context Modelling,
since this is a potentially crucial factor for many of the
applications I deal with. | |
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Tore Urnes
Tore Urnes
Telenor Research and
Development Block B1f, Snarøyveien 30 Fornebu
1331 Norway
Email: tore.urnes@telenor.com Phone: +47 951 86 003 Fax: +47 962 10
623
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Brief CV: 1998-present: Research scientist at Telenor
R&D, Norway. 1993-1998: PhD studies on software
architectures for synchronouse groupware at York University in
Tornoto, Canada. 1992-1993: Research assistant at Norwegian
Defence Research Establishment. 1991-1992: MSc studies on
specification languages for distributed GUIs at University of
Karlsruhe, Germany. 1987-1991: BSc studies in computer
engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Research interests: Mobile computing, context-awareness,
ubicomp, user interfaces. Experience from building several working
prototypes of ubicomp apps. Larger projects include a smart handheld
travel assistant, a cooking assistant for an instrumented kitchen, a
universal remote for Telenor's futuristic home (www.fremtidshuset.com), and
tangible/gesture-based UI for media control. Currently involved in
projects employing wireless ad hoc networks and peer-to-peer
architectures.
Focus of research: In the past mainly
software infrastructure for smart environments such as Telenor's
home of the future (http://www.fremtidshuset.com) and
context-aware, mobile devices. Currently focusing on middleware for
ubicomp apps built on ad hoc wireless networks and peer-to-peer
architecture. Have also worked on methods for concept development
(for ubicomp apps) and conducted usability evaluation of TUI
prototypes.
Recent publications: T. Urnes, Å. Weltzien,
A. Zanussi, S. Engbakk, J. Rafn. Pivots and Structured Play:
Stimulating Creative User Input in Concept Development. In
Proceedings of the Second Nordic Conference on Human-Computer
Interaction (NordiCHI 2002, Aarhus, Denmark, October 19-23). To
appear.
S.S. Bygdås, R.H. Johansen, Ø. Myhre, T. Urnes. A
Handheld Travel Assistant. Book chapter contribution in, J. Allin
(ed.), Wireless Java for Symbian Programmers, John Wiley & Sons
Ltd., September 2001.
T. Urnes, A.S. Hatlen, P.S. Malm, Ø.
Myhre. Building Distributed Context-Aware Applications. Personal and
Ubiquitous Computing, 5(1):38-41, April 2001.
S.S. Bygdås,
R.H. Johansen, Ø. Myhre, T. Urnes. Java Applications on Wireless
Information Devices. Scientific Report, Telenor R&D R 9/2001,
March 2001.
S.S. Bygdås, P.S. Malm, T. Urnes. A Simple
Architecture for Delivering Context Information to Mobile Users.
Position paper at the Workshop on Infrastructure for Smart Devices:
How to Make Ubiquity an Actuality. Co-located with HUC 2k, September
27, 2000.
T. Urnes, A.S. Hatlen, R.H. Johansen, Ø. Myhre.
Using Mobile Code to Build a Smart Kitchen. In Short Paper
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Handheld and
Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 2k, Bristol, UK, September 25-27).
Published in Personal Technologies, 4(4):202-204, September 2000.
T.N. Wright, T.C.N. Graham, T. Urnes. Specifying Temporal
Behaviour in Software Architectures for Groupware Systems. In
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Design,
Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSV-IS 2000,
Limerick, Ireland, June 5-6), Published as Lecture Notes in Computer
Science, Springer Verlag, 2000.
T. Urnes, A.S. Hatlen, R.H.
Johansen, Ø. Myhre. Home Automation Software Infrastructure: A Jini
Case-study. Scientific Report, Telenor R&D R 13/2000, May 2000.
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Julien Vayssiere
Julien Vayssiere
INRIA Sophia
Antipolis 2004 route des lucioles - BP 93 Sophia Antipolis
06902 France
Email: Julien.Vayssiere@sophia.inria.fr Phone: +33 4 92 38 75 54 Fax: +33 4 92 38 76
44 Web: http://www.inria.fr/oasis/Julien.Vayssiere/ |
I am about to complete my Ph.D. at INRIA Sophia Antipolis in
France under the supervision of Denis Caromel.
My main
research interests are in distributed computing and security. I
wrote the first implementation of ProActive (http://www-sop.inria.fr/oasis/proactive/),
a Java library for distributed and concurrent programming based on
an active object model. As I investigated the security aspects of
ProActive, I stumbled on a number of security issues raised by
meta-object protocols (MOP), for which I proposed a solution that
now constitutes the main topic of my doctoral dissertation (see
proceedings of ECOOP'2001 and Reflection'2001).
I also have
a long standing interest in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. I
programmed a few applications using the Jini library and published a
paper on how to improve the type-based lookup mechanism of Jini (see
proceedings of DOA'2001). I am also interested in peer-to-peer
networks. I wrote a small implementation of the Gnutella protocol
for performing statistics on the Gnutella network, although this
work has not produced any publications yet.
I expect this
summer school to present me with a broad and deep overview of the
field of pervasive computing. As I am about to finish my Ph.D., I am
looking forward to meeting other researchers in the field and learn
about new research directions for giving a new orientation to my
research.
I would of course be delighted to contribute to
the workshop under the form that you will find the most appropriate.
I could, for example, give a small presentation of my Jini work and
present Jini in general, or also present the Gnutella protocol and
the recent research papers that have been published on discovering
the topology of the Gnutella
network. | |
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Andreas Weissel
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Andreas Weissel
University of
Erlangen, Department of Computer Science 4 Martensstraße 1 Erlangen
91058 Germany
Email: weissel@cs.fau.de Phone: +49 9131 8528026 Fax: +49 9131
8528732 Web: http://www4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~weissel |
Biography
Andreas Weissel studied computer science at
the University of Erlangen and became a research staff member of the
Distributed Systems and Operating Systems Group in February 2002. He
is working toward a Ph.D. in the area of "OS-directed power
management", i.e. energy-aware operating system mechanisms and
system design to account and reduce energy consumption.
Research Interests
As a member of the power
management group at our department I am interested in energy-aware
system design. Energy- related aspects of ubiquitous computing
include: - power management techniques employed by energy-aware
operating systems for (deeply) embedded systems, e.g. device
shut-down policies, scheduling policies, processor core
frequency/voltage scaling etc. - energy-aware operating system
API (e.g. deferrable and abortable I/O operations) - accounting
of energy consumption - application adaptation - trade-offs
between energy consumption and quality of service - energy
efficient communication in wireless (sensor) networks
We
investigate mechanisms to deduce the specific energy consumption
from certain hardware event patterns. This helps in identifying the
originator (energy principal) of a specific hardware activation.
Towards this goal we both exploit hardware features already
prevalent in today's microprocessors -such as performance counters-
and also propose new architectural features specifically tailored to
the problem domain at hand. Using information gathered this way
efficient power management techniques can be applied. Several
approaches of doing this are known, e.g. core frequency/voltage
scaling.
Other interests include pricing models and resource
management based on energy consumption for servers and distributed
systems. | |
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Song Yuan
Song Yuan
Darmstadt University of
Technology Zimmer 128, Alexanderstr. 10 Darmstadt, Hessen
D-64283 Germany
Email: yuan@iss.tu-darmstadt.de
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I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science of
TU-Darmstadt. My research interests include Digital
Watermarking, Digital Authentication, and Reconfigurable Hardware
for Ubiquitous Computing. I want to know more about the
subfields of pervasive computing, and to meet some people working in
Pervasive Computing. | |
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Andreas Zeidler
Andreas Zeidler
Darmstadt
University of Technology Wilhelminenstr. 7 Darmstadt
64283 Germany
Email: az@ubicomp.de Phone: +49 6151 16 6233 Fax: +49 6151 16
6229 Web: http://www.dvs1.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DVS1/staff/az/ |
Background: As a practitioner of Ubiquitous Computing I'm
interested in infrastructures for such systems. My main research
questions are: How can we identify key services in the
infrastructure and what is their purpose? How do they interact? What
are the key factors for such systems to be accepted by "common"
users andnot "geeks" only.
Subtopics of this are "context",
its formalization and interpretation, as well as HCI issues and
models for user interaction. Nevertheless, the main focus is laid on
answering such trivial questions like "What is the next printer?" -
A challenging question in my opinion...
Expectations:
This summer school is a great opportunity to meet (again) many
excellent researchers in the field of Ubicomp. Talking to and
exchanging ideas with them is an opportunity I do not want to miss.
If the schedule is comparable to the Dagstuhl Seminar last year I am
sure every participant will benefit from this
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Wensheng Zhang
Wensheng Zhang
Chinese Academy of
Sciences, Institute of Software, HCI and Intelligent Engineering
Lab No.4, South 4 Street, Zhongguancun Avenue, Haidian District,
Beijing, P.R China Beijing, Beijing
100080 China
Email: zhangws330@sina.com Phone: 86-10-62540481 Fax: 86-10-62562533 Web:
http://www.iscas.ac.cn/ |
I am a post-doctor student (or young researcher) in Chinese
Academy of Sciences. Since 1998, I have been working on Human
Computer Interaction (HCI), Machine Learning (ML) and Pattern
Recognition (PR). Our lab is a famous HCI lab in China. The main
research focus is Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. The
ultimate goal is to achieve the Ubiquitous computing. I have
finished a lot of projects about Handwritten Mathematical Expression
Editor, Hand-Map (Palm Map), Slide Authoring, Children Virtual
Drawing. Now, I am researching on information fusion in Multi-modal
(pen, speech and image) Human-Computer Interaction. After finding
the Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, I am very
interested. I think that it is a good opportunity to get to know
other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars,
and to improve the research of Ubicomp in my lab and in my country.
1. Zhang Wen-sheng,Ding Hui,Wang Jue, Study on Computing the
Support Vectors of Massive Data Based upon Neighborhood Principle.
Journal of software(China),2001.5.
2. Wen-sheng Zhang,Jue
Wang, Using SVM Technology to Achieve Function-link Net. Journal of
Computer sciences, 2001.5.
3. Zhang Wen-sheng,Wang Jue, Dai
guozhong, The Study of Theory and Method Introducing Posterior
Probability into Support Vector machines. Journal of computer
research and development, 2002.4.
4. Wensheng Zhang,
Guozhong Dai, Research on Similar Symbol Recognition in Pen-based
Interaction System, The Proceeding of the 5th Asia Pacific
Conference on Computer Human Interaction, Nov.2002.
5.
Wensheng Zhang, Handwritten Interaction Mathematical Expression
Editor. The International Conference on Control and Automation,
Xiamen, June 2002. | |
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