Tentative Conference Program

 

Starts Wednesday, Oct 29 Thursday, Oct 30 Friday, Oct 31
09:00   Keynote 2 Context Processing II
09:15
09:30
09:45
10:00 Coffee Break
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30 Spatial and Human Context
10:45 Context Aware Applications and Case Studies
11:00
11:15
11:30
11:45
12:00
12:15 Lunch Break Concluding Remarks
12:30
12:45  
13:00  
13:15  
13:30  
13:45    
14:00 Welcome Message & Keynote 1 Keynote 3  
14:15  
14:30  
14:45  
15:00 Coffee Break  
15:15 Coffee Break  
15:30 Context Processing I  
15:45 Smart Objects  
16:00  
16:15  
16:30  
16:45 Coffee Break  
17:00 Cocktail Dinner and Poster & Demos  
17:15 Roadmapping the Future of Smart Sensing and Context  
17:30  
17:45  
18:00  
18:15    
18:30    
18:45    
19:00   Gala Dinner  
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Keynotes

Wednesday, 14: 00 to 15:00
Dr. Alain Crevoisier: Transforming Daily Life Objects into Tactile Interfaces

Abstract: This article describes a few techniques to transform daily life objects into tactile interfaces, and presents the implementation details for three objects chosen as example: a light globe, a tray and a table. Those techniques can be divided in two main categories, acoustic techniques and computer vision techniques. Acoustic techniques use the vibrations that are produced when touching an object and that are propagating through and on the surface of the object until reaching piezo sensors attached on the surface. The computer vision approach is an extension of the technique used for virtual keyboards, and is based on the detection of fingers intercepting a plane of infrared light projected above the surface by a pair of laser modules. It allows for multi-touch sensing on any flat surfaces.

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Thursday, 09:00 to 10:00
Prof. Elgar Fleisch: When the Internet of Things Meets Business

Biography: Elgar Fleisch is professor of information and technology management at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. His current research focuses on future developments in business computing, in particular in the area of ubiquitous computing, work that addresses the architecture and applications of the Internet of Things. Elgar Fleisch co-chairs the global network of Auto-ID Labs, and the Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Lab (M-Lab). He is a co-founder of several university spin-offs and serves as a member in numerous steering committees in academia and business.
Research labs: www.autoidlabs.org, www.i-lab.ch, www.bitstoenergy.ch
Abstract: The presentation starts with a drafting the general business impact of the vision of the Internet of Things. It describes machine sensing as a key enabler to emerging industrial applications. In a second part some of the potential mass applications are described in more detail and used as a starting point to derive future research fields in technical and application oriented domains.

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Thursday, 14:00 to 15:00
Prof. Alcherio Martinoli: Distributed Robotic Systems, a Peculiar Form of Sensor and Actuator Networks

Biography: Alcherio Martinoli has a Master in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He has more than thirteen years expertise in the area of real-time, embedded systems, including one year of research activities at the ETHZ, one year at a Spanish Research Council institute in Madrid, Spain, and four years at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A. He has joined EPFL first as Swiss National Science Foundation junior professor at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and recently became Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering where he is leading the Distributed Intelligent Systems and Algorithms Laboratory. His research interests focus on techniques to design, control, model, and optimize distributed, real-time, embedded systems, including multi-robot systems, sensor and actuator networks, and intelligent vehicles. Among the recent achievements, Prof. Martinoli has received from the EPFL General Student Association the 2006 Best Teacher Award for Computer and Communication Sciences, has co-authored a paper on system identification methods for swarm robotic systems recipient of the Best Paper Award at the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems Symposium 2006, and another paper on the social integration of miniature robots into cockroach societies appeared on Science in 2007.
Abstract: In this talk, I will first highlight the challenges related to the design, control, evaluation, optimization, and scalability of distributed robotic systems. In particular, I will describe selected model-based and machine-learning-based methods we have developed in order to address such challenges. I will support the discussion with a few recent case studies concerned with distributed sensing and manipulation missions. Finally, I will extrapolate a few lessons we learned from distributed robotics and speculate on their potential application to further domains of interest in the broader area of sensor and actuator networks.

 

Roadmapping the Future of Smart Sensing and Context

The EuroSSC special session "Roadmapping the future of smart sensing and context" is a combined networking and panel discussion session.
It is a platform for participants at EuroSSC to present and discuss research trends, more concrete research ideas, business cases related to "smart sensing and context".
It gives the participants the possibility to meet interested parties. This may foster new collaborations, new European research projects, and the discussion will provide participants new insights and ideas.
The session moderator is Dr. Jamie Ward, from the University of Lancaster (UK), who is expert in context-aware systems. Patrick Furrer, the Swiss National Contact Point ICT Euresearch will introduce the Work Programme 2009-10.
The session is organized as follows:

  • ELEVATOR PITCHES: First participants can present a research vision or project idea on one slide (2mn per participant)
  • PANEL/DISCUSSION: Afterwards the session is open for discussion to the panel and participants.
  • SOCIAL DINNER: The session is followed by the conference social dinner that will allow further discussions.

Download Patrick Furrer's slides on "Orientations for the Work Programme 2009-10 in Information & Communication Technologies".

 

Technical sessions

The EuroSSC Program Committee has selected the following 17 papers (25% of submissions) for inclusion into the program of EuroSSC 2008. Each papers has a slot of 25 minutes for presentation and questions. The papers will be presented in the following sessions:

Smart Objects

 Wednesday, 15:45 to 17:00
  • Using a Movable RFID Antenna to Automatically Determine the Position and Orientation of Objects on a Tabletop
    Steve Hinske, Marc Langheinrich
  • Vision-Based Detection of Mobile Smart Objects
    David Molyneaux, Hans Gellersen, Bernt Schiele
  • Design and Evaluation of a Sound Based Water Flow Measurement System
    Alejandro Ibarz, Gerald Bauer, Roberto Casas, Alvaro Marco, Paul Lukowicz

Spatial and Human Context

 Thursday, 10:30 to 12:10 with a short break in the middle
  • People Identification Using Gait via Floor Pressure Sensing and Analysis
    Gang Qian, Jiqing Zhang, Assegid Kidane
  • Gaussian Process Person Identifier Based on Simple Floor Sensors
    Jaakko Suutala, Kaori Fujinami, Juha Röning
  • GammaSense: Infrastructureless Positioning using Background Radioactivity
    Doina Bucur, Mikkel Kjærgaard
  • Location-free Object Tracking on Graph Structures
    Daniela Krüger, Carsten Buschmann, Stefan Fischer

Context Processing I

 Thursday, 15:30 to 16:45
  • Reasoning About Context in Uncertain Pervasive Computing Environments
    Pari Delir Haghighi, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Arkady Zaslavsky, Mohamed Gaber
  • On the Evaluation of Quality of Context
    Atif Manzoor, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
  • A Game-theoretic Approach to Co-operative Context-aware Driving with Partially Random Behavior
    Stefan Rass, Simone Fuchs, Kyandoghere Kyamakya

Context Processing II

 Friday, 09:00 to 10:15
  • Mobile Context-Addressable Messaging with DL-Lite Domain Model.
    Michal Koziuk, Jaroslaw Domaszewicz, Radoslaw Schoeneich, Marcin Jablonowski, Piotr Boetzel
  • Contextual Ranking of Database Querying Results: A Statistical Approach
    Xiang Li, Ling Feng, Lizhu Zhou
  • Synthesizing context for a sports domain on a mobile device
    Alisa Devlic, Michal Koziuk, Wybe Horsman

Context Aware Applications and Case Studies

 Friday, 10:45 to 12:05 with a short break in the middle
  • A Wearable, Conductive Textile Based User Interface for Hospital Ward Rounds Document Access
    Jingyuan Cheng, David Bannach, Kurt Adamer, Thomas Bernreiter, Paul Lukowicz
  • Exploring the Design of Pay-Per-Use Objects in the Construction Domain
    Daniel Fitton, Gerd Kortuem, Vasughi Sundramoorthy, James Brown, Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney, Nigel Davies
  • Using Aesthetic and Empathetic Expressions to Motivate Desirable Lifestyle
    Tatsuo Nakajima
  • Raising awareness about space via vibro-tactile notifications
    Andreas Riener, Alois Ferscha