Advance Program

The joint Pervasive 2011 and ISWC 2011 program. The program will be updated as new material is added to the schedule. Please register the conference you wish to primarily attend.

Full paper talks should be 25 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions. Short paper talks should be 15 minutes long with 5 minutes for questions.

Registration will be open at 8AM daily, starting Sunday.

= Best In-Category Nominee
= Best In-Category Winner

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Keynote Speakers

Towards Self-Driving Cars
Sebastian Thrun, Google

Abstract: Imagine if your car could drive itself. Get in, push a button, and everything else is done by your car. This presentation will introduce you to the fascinating world of self-driving cars. Google has developed a fleet of modified Priuses that can drive themselves on public roads in California. In the past months, Google's cars have driven over 150,000 miles, in places like downtown San Francisco, LA, and near Lake Tahoe. While this technology is still in the research stage, it may one day transform society, leading to better and safer modes of transportation.

Bio: Sebastian Thrun is a Google Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the German Academy of Sciences, and a Stanford Professor of Computer Science. Fast Magazine selected him as the fifth most creative person in business, the UK Telegraph included him in their list of 100 living geniuses, and Popular Science included him in their 2005 list of Brilliant Ten. His self-driving car was named one of the 50 best inventions of 2010 by Time Magazine, and it was awarded a Crunchy by TechCrunch in 2011. Thrun led the team that won the DARPA Grand Challenge, against more than 190 competitors.

What if your contact lens could show you images?
Babak A. Parviz, University of Washington

Abstract: Contact lenses provide a unique interface with the human body. Millions of people wear contact lenses in the United States everyday and for most of them, wearing these polymer objects is comfortable enough that throughout the day, they forget this piece is on their eye surface. The research group at the University of Washington has been working on integrating micron-scale and nano-scale devices on contact lenses in the past few years. The two main application areas are integrating a wireless display on a contact lens to enable the user to see computer generated graphics and using contact lenses with embedded biosensors for continuous monitoring of human health. This talk provides a brief overview of the progress made to this date towards designing and building such contact lenses.

Bio: Babak Parviz is the Gerald McMorrow Associate professor of innovation at the University of Washington. He received his undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and literature and his graduate degrees in physics and electrical engineering. He was a device designer and product manager in a photonics start-up and completed his postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry and chemical biology before joining the University of Washington in 2003. He is the recipient of a number of awards including MIT TR35 and NSF CAREER award. His work has been put on display at the London Museum of Science and has been reported on widely globally. His main areas of research are microtechnology, nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology.

Pervasive Sessions

Pervasive: Practices with Smartphones

Session Chair : Rene Mayrhofer

(Video) GymSkill: Mobile Exercise Skill Assessment to Support Personal Health and Fitness Andreas Möller, Johannes Scherr, Luis Roalter, Stefan Diewald, Matthias Kranz, Nils Hammerla, Thomas Ploetz, Patrick Olivier

(Video) Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones - Why do we need it and how can it be done? Matthias Budde, Martin Berchtold, Michael Beigl

Planning, Apps, and the High-end Smartphone: Exploring the Landscape of Modern Cross-device Reaccess Elizabeth Bales, Timothy Sohn, Vidya Setlur

Understanding Human-Smartphone Concerns: A Study of Battery Life Denzil Ferreira, Anind K. Dey, Vassilis Kostakos

Pervasive: Sensing at Home, Sensing at Work

Session Chair : Judy Kay

(Video) A Framework for Opportunistic Context and Activity Recognition Gerold Hoelzl, Marc Kurz, Alois Ferscha, Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni, Gerhard Troester, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Jose del R. Millan, Hesam Sagha, Paul Lukowicz

(Video) Cooperative Situation Awareness for a Railway Collision Avoidance System (RCAS) Thomas Strang, Andreas Lehner, Cristina Rico Garcia, Oliver Heirich, Anja Grosch

Monitoring Residential Noise for Prospective Home Owners and Renters Thomas Zimmerman Christine Robson

A Longitudinal Study of Pressure Sensing to Infer Real-World Water Usage Events in the Home Jon Froehlich, Eric Larson, Elliot Saba, Tim Campbell, Les Atlas, James Fogarty, Shwetak Patel

Exploring the Design Space for Situated Glyphs to Support Dynamic Work Environments Fahim Kawsar, Jo Vermeulen, Kevin Smith, Kris Luyten, Gerd Kortuem

Pervasive: Predicting the Future

Session Chair : Marc Langheinrich

(Video) SmartFactory - Towards a Factory-of-Things Detlef Zuehlke, Ruediger Dabelow

(Video) MobiDics - Improving University Education With A Mobile Didactics Toolbox Andreas Möller, Angelika Thielsch, Luis Roalter, Stefan Diewald, Andreas Hendrich, Barbara Meyer, Matthias Kranz

Learning Time-Based Presence Probabilities John Krumm, A.J. Bernheim Brush

n-gram Geo-Trace Modeling Senaka Buthpitiya, Ying Zhang, Anind K. Dey, Martin Griss

Pervasive: Location Sensing

Session Chair : John Krumm

(Video) Mobile Context-based Ride Sharing Alireza Sahami,Thomas Kubtiza, Florian Alt, Philipp Tarasiewicz, Andreas Bungert, Vladimir Minakov, Albrecht Schmidt

Autonomous Construction of a WiFi Access Point Map Using Multidimensional Scaling Jahyoung Koo, Hojung Cha

Identifying Important Places in Peoples Lives from Cellular Network Data Sibren Isaacman, Richard Becker, Ramón Cáceres, Stephen Kobourov, Margaret Martonosi, James Rowland, Alexander Varshavsky

NextPlace: A Spatio-Temporal Prediction Framework for Pervasive Systems Salvatore Scellato, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Vito Latora, Andrew T. Campbell

Pervasive: Augmenting Mobile Phone Use

Session Chair : Tico Ballagas

Using Decision-Theoretic Experience Sampling to Build Personalized Mobile Phone Interruption Models Stephanie Rosenthal, Anind K. Dey, Manuela Veloso

SpeakerSense: Energy Efficient Unobtrusive Speaker Identification on MobilePhones Hong Lu, A.J. Bernheim Brush, Bodhi Priyantha, Amy K. Karlson, Jie Liu

Text Text Revolution: A Game that Improves Text Entry on Mobile Touchscreen Keyboards Dmitry Rudchenko, Tim Paek, Eric Badger

Pervasive: Pervasive Computing in The Public Arena

Session Chair : Anind Dey

(Video) Wearable MC System Tomonari Okada, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto

Pervasive Sensing to Model Political Opinions in Face-to-Face Networks Anmol Madan, Katayoun Farrahi, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Alex (Sandy) Pentland

Lessons from Touring a Location-Based Experience Leif Oppermann, Martin Flintham, Stuart Reeves, Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Joe Marshall, Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, Nick Tandavanitj

Pervasive: Public Displays

Session Chair : Trevor Pering

(Video) A Performer Support System for Interactive Performances Using Projector Jun Ikeda, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto

Hybrid prototyping by using virtual and miniature simulation for designing spatial interactive information systems Yasuto Nakanishi, Koji Sekiguchi, Takuro Ohmori, Soh kitahara, Daisuke Akatsuka

Designing Shared Public Display Networks Implications from Todays Paper-Based Notice Areas Florian Alt, Nemanja Memarovic, Ivan Elhart, Dominik Bial, Albrecht Schmidt, Marc Langheinrich, Gunnar Harboe, Elaine Huang, Marcello P. Scipioni

Pervasive: Hands on with Sensing

Session Chair : A.J. Brush

(Video) SenseWaves: Radiowaves for context recognition Markus Scholz, Stefan Sigg, Gerrit Bagschik, Toni Guenther, Georg von Zengen, Dimana Shishkova, Yusheng Ji, Michael Beigl

(Video) Towards a Rowing Technique Evaluation Based on Oar Orientation Franz Gravenhorst, Bernd Tessendorf, Gerhard Tröster

Recognizing the Use of Portable Electrical Devices with Hand-worn Magnetic Sensors Takuya Maekawa, Yasue Kishino, Yasushi Sakurai, Takayuki Suyama

3D Gesture Recognition: An Evaluation of User and System Performance Michael Wright, Chun-Jung Lin, Eamonn O'Neill, Darren Cosker, Peter Johnson

Pervasive: Sensing on the Body

Session Chair : Kurt Partridge

(Video) The emotional computer Peter Robinson

Recognition of Hearing Needs from Body and Eye Movements to Improve Hearing Instruments Bernd Tessendorf, Andreas Bulling, Daniel Roggen, Thomas Stiefmeier, Manuela Feilner, Peter Derleth, Gerhard Tröster

Recognizing whether sensors are on the same body Cory Cornelius, David Kotz

Sensing and Classifying Impairments of GPS Reception on Mobile Devices Henrik Blunck, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Thomas Skjødeberg Toftegaard

Pervasive Demos

Paraimpu: a Social Tool for the Web of Things Antonio Pintus, Davide Carboni, Andrea Piras

LunchCommunicator: Communication Support System using a Lunchbox Naoko Kotani, Koji Tsukada, Keita Watanabe, Itiro Siio

Clever Shopper: Supporting In-Store Decision-making Preethi Srinivas, Haidan Huang, Afarin Pirzadeh, Davide Bolchini

PowerFlower: a low-level electrical energy consumption feedback ambient display Adrian Ocneanu, Mary Barreto, Luis Gomes, Nuno Nunes

Cookmark Collaborative Cooking Tool Carol Chen, Janani Vasudev, Jinyoung Baik

Program Your Reality with dinam-mite Dawud Gordon, Martin Alexander Neumann, Michael Beigl

A Miniaturized Display Network for Situated Glyphs Gerd Kortuem, Fahim Kawsar, Phil Scholl, Michael Beigl, Adalberto Simeone, Kevin Smith

Participatory noise mapping Ellie D'Hondt, Matthias Stevens

GuideCam: A Digital Camera with Picture Spot Finder Chiho Watanabe, Koji Tsukada, Takayuki Goto, Itiro Siio

Pervasive Cameras: Making Sense of Many Angles using Radial Basis Function Interpolation and Salients Analysis Yotam Mann, Adrian Freed

Mobile NFC Games: New Techniques and Applications Luis Sarmenta

Place Sticker: Energy Harvesting Approach for Low Cost Wi-Fi AP Positioning Infrastructure Nobuhiko Nishio, Ryuta Oka, Tran Xuan Duc, Ismail Arai

Pervasive Posters

Digifieds: Evaluating Suitable Interaction Techniques for Shared Public Notice Areas Florian Alt, Dominik Bial, Thomas Kubitza, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Markus Ortel, Björn Zurmaar, Firas Zaidan, Tim Lewen, Albrecht Schmidt

Particle filtering on GPU for indoor pedestrian localisation Agata Brajdic, Robert Harle

( paper evalution) AwareHanger: Context-aware hanger for detecting the status of laundry Nanami Tajima, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio

HeatProbe: a Thermal-based Power Meter System for Tracking Per-user Power Consumption Nan-Chen Chen, Bo-Jhang Ho, Hsin-Liu Kao, Chuang-Wen You, Hao-Hua Chu, Ming-Syan Chen

( automated evalution) Cheers!: Sharing Social TV Experiences and Interactions Using Mobile Phones Jee Yeon Hwang, Henry Holtzman

Automatic poster evaluation Floris van Liere, Oliver Amft

Chasing the Holy Grail of Mobile Advertising: An Interaction Framework for a User-Centered Mobile Marketing Felix Portnoy

ISWC Sessions

ISWC: Users

Session Chair : Bruce Thomas

AirTouch: Synchronizing in-air hand gesture and on-body tactile feedback to augment mobile gesture interaction Seungyon Claire Lee, BoHao Li, Thad Starner

A Method of Measuring Garment Movement for Wearable Sensing Lucy Dunne, Guido Gioberto, Helen Koo

How should a Wearable Rowing Trainer look like? A User Study Tobias Franke, Christian Pieringer, Paul Lukowicz

ISWC: Smartphones as Wearables

Session Chair : Thad Starner

GroupUs: Smartphone Proximity Data and Human Interaction Type Mining Trinh Minh Tri Do, Daniel Gatica-Perez

Who's Who with Big-Five: Analyzing and Classifying Personality Traits with Smartphones Gokul Chittaranjan, Jan Blom, Daniel Gatica-Perez

Collaborative PDR Localisation with Mobile Phones Kamil Kloch, Paul Lukowicz, Carl Fischer

ISWC: Novel Sensing

Session Chair : Tom Martin

South by South-East or sitting at the desk. Can orientation be a place? Ulf Blanke, Robert Rehner, Bernt Schiele

A Context Aware System Based on Scent Yasuki Kobayashi, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto

Sensing Dance Engagement for Collaborative Music Control Michael Kuhn, Martin Wirz, Matthias Flückiger, Roger Wattenhofer, Gerhard Troster

Evaluating Gesture Recognition by Multiple-Sensor-Containing Mobile Devices Kazuya Murao, Tsutomu Terada, Ai Yano, Ryuichi Matsukura

(Video)PowerSaver - Activity-Based Implicit Energy Management A. Ferscha, J. Erhart, P. Halbmayer, M. Matscheko, M. Wirthig, S. Eisl, N. Hölzl, A. Abart, J. Kaltenleithner, H. Zeinhofer, W. Zandomeneghi

ISWC: Education

Session Chair : Oliver Amft

An interdisciplinary undergraduate design course for wearable and pervasive computing products Thomas Martin, Kahyun Kim, Jason Forsyth, Lisa McNair, Eloise Coupey, Ed Dorsa

Panel on Education and Wearable Computing Mark Smith, Clint Zeagler, Tom Martin, Daniel P. Siewiorek

ISWC: Recognition

Session Chair : Dan Siewiorek

Unsupervised adaptation to on-body sensor displacement in acceleration-based activity recognition Hamidreza Bayati, José del R. Millán, Ricardo Chavarriaga

What can an arm holster worn smart phone do for activity recognition? Michael Muehlbauer, Gernot Bahle, Paul Lukowicz

Self-taught learning for activity spotting in on-body motion sensor data Oliver Amft

ISWC: Activity

Session Chair : Paul Lukowitz

Unsupervised Activity Recognition with User's Physical Characteristics Data Takuya Maekawa, Shinji Watanabe

A Large Scale Gathering System for Activity Data with Mobile Sensors Yuichi Hattori, Sozo Inoue, Go Hirakawa

What do sensors know about your running performance? Christina Strohrmann, Holger Harms, Gerhard Troester

ISWC Design Exhibition

Photonic Bike Clothing I - For Urban Biker Sunhee Lee, Donghea Lee

Photonic Bike Clothing II - For Lux Biker Sunhee Lee, Hyejin Bae

The Printing Dress: You are what you Tweet Sheridan Martin Small, Asta Roseway (1^st Overall, 1^st Concept, 3^rd Execution)

Talk to the Hand Halley P Profita, Scott Gilliland (2^nd Overall, 2^nd Concept)

To Answer or Not to Answer Scarf Halley P Profita, Scott Gilliland

Color It Your Dress with Touch-sensitive Fiber-Optics and Remote-Controlled LEDs : The Coloring Dress I and II Helen Koo (2^nd Execution)

CHAT: Cetacean Hearing Augmentation & Telemetry Stewart Butler, James McCarty, Scott Oliveria, Ryan Hanser, Blake Hinton, Thad Starner, Denise Herzing

MP3 Fedora Jonathan Spoerke, David Quigley, John Bartz, Chris Zajac

Ping: A Social Networking Garment Jennifer Darmor, Jesse Graupmann, Tanya Min Jee Ellis (2^nd Concept)

Zip: Control Your Music Jennifer Darmor, Lori Wahl (3^rd Overall, 1^st Execution)

Soft Glow Elizabeth Hillmann

Combining Opposites: Wood Dress with Light Up Shawl Dziyana Zhyhar

SENSOREE Therapeutic Bio.media Kristin Neidlinger, Wendy Ju (2^nd Concept)

ISWC Demos

Textile Interface: Embroidered Jog-Wheel Clint Zeagler, Scott Gilliland, Halley Profita, Thad Starner

An RFID-Based Smart Wardrobe Reminder System Lucy E. Dunne, Vivian Zhang, Helen Koo, Allison Danzl, Loren Terveen

ISWC Posters

Toward Record of Scores and Stats: Count of the Stroke Number Using a Mobile Phone Accelerometer Shigeki Muramatsu, Takafumi Watanabe, Daisuke Kamisaka, Arei Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Yokoyama, Takeshi Iwamoto

Glove-Based Sensor Support for Dynamic Tangible Buttons in Spatial Augmented Reality Design Environments Bruce Thomas, Mark Smith, Tim Simon, Jun Park, Joonsun Park, Stewart Von Itzstein, Ross Smith

Interfacing Mobile Devices with Electronic Textiles using Spatial Information Bae Sun Kim, Hee Sook Shin, Yong Ki Son, Il-Yeon Cho, Hyung Sun Lee

GSR Sock: A New e-Textile Sensor Prototype Jennifer Healey

Foot Menu: using heel rotation information for menu selection Kang Zhong, Feng Tian, Hongan Wang

Fabrics Capable of Capacitive Energy Storage Kristy Jost, Carlos Perez, John McDonough, Volker Presser, Genevieve Dion, Yury Gogotsi

Detecting Posture Mirroring in Social Interactions with Wearable Sensors Sebastian Feese, Bert Arnrich, Gerhard Troster, Betholt Meyer, Klaus Jonas

Evaluating Effect of Concreteness in Instructions for Gesture Recognition Kazuya Murao, Tsutomu Terada

Indoor-Outdoor Navigation System for Visually-Impaired Pedestrians: Preliminary Evaluation of Position Measurement and Obstacle Takeshi Kurata, Masakatsu Kourogi, Tomoya Ishikawa, Yoshinari Kameda, Kyota Aoki, Jun Ishikawa

Joint Doctoral Consortium

Designing for Meaningful Public Interactive Environments Peter van Waart

Wearable Computing In Factory Environment Patrick Zschaler

Instrumented Tools as Ubiquitous Interfaces Manish Parekh

Combining Unsupervised Learning and Generative Models for Activity Recognition with Wearable Sensors Albert Hein

Goal Oriented Opportunistic Sensing Gerold Hoelzl

Sensors meet Social: Data in a Connected World Elizabeth Bales

Auditory Scene Analysis for Activity-Aware Computing Using Audio Features as Text Cues Jessica Beltrán-Márquez

A Sustainable Model for Smart Clothing Design Helen Koo