October 2001 Jamboree - Program

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  Wednesday, October 17  
14:00 -
18:30
Exhibition area open for installations
  Thursday, October 18  
09:15 Opening Session with Welcome and organisational information by local host, DC-SG, EU-representative
09:45 Keynote Speaker: Dirk Husemann (IBM Zürich Research Lab)
Pervasive Big Blue: Pervasive Computing at IBM
10:45Coffee Break
11:15Time for everybody (the reviewers/project officers in particular) visiting the projects' exhibitions
13:00Lunch
14:00 (More) Time for everybody to visit the projects' exhibitions
15:00Coffee Break
15:30Review Sessions 1 Workshop 1: Issues regarding hardware and software architecture of artifacts
17:00General Assembly of the DC community
report of the DC-SG, discussions
18:15Dinner in the Dozentenfoyer, top ("J") floor of the ETH Main building
Dinner Speech: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt (ETH Zurich, VP of Planning)
ETH World: An example of integrating real and virtual world
  Friday, October 19  
9:15Review Sessions 2 Workshop 3: From sensors to context
10:45Coffee Break
11:15Review Sessions 3 SIG: Privacy isssues
12:45Lunch
13:45Review Sessions 4 Workshop 2: How to interact with disappearing computers in hybrid worlds?
15:15Short Break
15:30Closing Session with summary and discussion of the experiences of the two days. Planning of further DC activities.
16:30Jamboree ends

 

DC-Review Schedule: Projects and Reviewers

We scheduled about 1.5 hours for reviewing each project. Jakub informed us that there will be 4 project officers (and 2 reviewers per project), so that we were able to schedule 4 reviews in parallel.

The other consideration was to provide on the first day sufficient time for everybody, in particular the project officers and reviewers, to visit the exhibition stands of the projects in order to inform themselves about the projects - beyond the deliverables sent before. There are no parallel activities during this time.

  Thursday     Friday  
Session 1
15:30 - 17:00
Session 2
9:15 - 10:45
Session 3
11:15 - 12:45
Session 4
13:45 - 15:15
ETZ E6 ACCORD E-GADGETS 2 WEAR INTERLIVING
Project Officer D.Pearce P.Maliverni P.Maliverni L.Anania
Reviewers Sandini, Rahlff Demazeau, Lund Lund, Rahlff Gaver, Grasso
ETZ E7 AMBIENT AGORAS SMART-ITS SHAPE MIME
Project Officer J.Wejchert J.Wejchert D.Pearce J.Wejchert
Reviewers Grasso, Eijselstein Sandini, Sleep Grasso, Gaver Marti, Ellis
ETZ E8 FEEL GLOSS PAPER++ ORESTEIA
Project Officer L.Anania D.Pearce L.Anania P.Maliverni
Reviewers Ellis, Marti Eijselstein, Marti Sandini, Ellis Demazeau, Lund
ETZ E9 GROCER SOB WORKSPACE
Project Officer P.Maliverni L.Anania J.Wejchert
Reviewers Demazeau, Sleep Gaver, Ellis Eijselstein, Marti

 

Workshops/ Special Interest Groups

WS1: Issues regarding hardware and software architecture of artifacts

This is a preparation meeting for an approved WP-0-Atelier on "Artifacts and applications: can we reach compatible (although diverse) solutions on technical and architectural solutions?", scheduled for November 2001.
There are two purposes of this workshop:

  • to prepare the atelier

  • to provide a starting point for a SIG on artifact architecture

Projects involved: E-GADGETS, SMART-ITS, ORESTEIA, 2WEAR.
Contact person: Achilles D. Kameas, Computer Technology Institute - Research Unit 3 Patras, Greece. http://www.cti.gr, e-mail: Achilles.Kameas@cti.gr, Fon: +30-61-225.073 ext. 564

WS2: How to interact with disappearing computers in hybrid worlds?

This is preparation meeting for an approved WP-0-Atelier with the same name scheduled for early December 2001. It could be the start event for a SIG on these issues within the DC initiative/ network.
Projects involved: AMBIENT AGORAS, E-GADGETS, SHAPE, WORKSPACE, SMART-ITS.

Contact person: Norbert Streitz, Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany. https://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente, e-mail: streitz@ipsi.fraunhofer.de Fon: ++49(0)6151-869-919

WS3: From sensors to context

The aim of this workshop is to give people hands-on experience with the use of sensor boards to gather context. In particular, we will discuss different types of sensors, requirements for the use of sensors and perception algorithms, as well as challenges and pitfalls for getting context from sensor data. Methods to develop systems with sensor-based context-awareness are also beeing looked at.
Projects involved: SMART-ITS. Open to all people who are interested.

Contact person: Albrecht Schmidt, Lancaster University, https://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~albrecht/, e-mail: albrecht@comp.lancs.ac.uk

SIG: Privacy isssues

The purpose of this meeting is the preparation of a WP-0 activity (Atelier/ workshop) to be submitted for funding. Motivation: Parts of the DC approach raise some fear among users because of the increased possibilities of being observed and of loosing control over private information, due to hidden functionality based on embedded invisible devices.

Contact person: Saadi Lahlou, Electricite de France (EDF), Laboratory for the Design of Cognition (LDC) Clamart (near Paris), France. e-mail: Saadi.Lahlou@edf.fr, Fon: +33-1-47 65 52 21

 

 

 

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