EuroSSC 2007 Program

Program Overview

Time Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
23-Oct-07 24-Oct-07 25-Oct-07
8.30 Registration
9.00 Welcome Remarks Keynote Session 5
9.30 Keynote
10.00 Break
10.30 Break Session 4 Break
11.00 Session 1 Session 6
11.30
12.00 Lunch
12.30 Lunch Closing Session
13.00  
13.30 Industrial Panel Session
14.00 Session 2
14.30  
15.00  
15.30 Break Social Event  
16.00 Session 3  
16.30  
17.00 Break  
17.30  
18.00 Demo & Poster Session
Dinner Reception
Conference Banquet
21.00
   


Detailed Program

Tuesday, 23 October 2007
8:30 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Welcome & Opening
Remarks
Dr. Gerd Kortuem
EuroSSC 2007 General Chair
9.30 - 10.30 Keynote MetroSense: People-Centric Sensing
Dr. Andrew T. Campbell
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA
10.30 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Session 1 A Sensor placement Approach for the Monitoring of Indoor Scenes
Pierre David (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France), Vincent Idasiak (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France), Frederic Kratz (Laboratoire Vision et Robotique, France)

Inferring and Distributing Spatial Context
Clemens Holzmann (Johannes Kepler University Linz, AT)

Sensing motion using spectral and spatial analysis of WLAN RSSI
Kavitha Muthukrishnan (University of Twente, NL), Nirvana Meratnia (University of Twente, NL)
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.30 Session 2 GlobeCon - A Scalable Framework for Context Aware Computing
Kaiyuan Lu (University of Carleton, CA); Doron Nussbaum (Carleton University, CA); Jorg-Rudiger Sack (Carleton University, CA)

Capturing Context Requirements
Tom Broens (University of Twente, NL); Dick Quartel (University of Twente, NL); Marten van Sinderen (University of Twente, NL)

ESCAPE - An Adaptive Framework for Managing and Providing Context Information in Emergency Situations
Hong-Linh Truong (Vienna University of Technology, AT); Lukasz Juszczyk (Vienna University of Technology, AT); Atif Manzoor (Vienna University of Technology, AT); Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, AT)
15.30 - 16.00 Break
16.00 - 17.00 Session 3 Mapping by seeing: wearable vision-based dead-reckoning, and closing the loop
Daniel Roggen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, CH); Reto Jenny (ETH Zurich, CH); Patrick De la Hamette (ETH Zurich, CH); Gerhard Troster (Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zurich, CH)

The Design of A Pressure Sensing Floor for Movement-based Human Computer Interaction
Sankar Rangarajan (Arizona State University, US); Assegid Kidane (Arizona State University, US); Gang Qian (Arizona State University, US); Stjepan Rajko (Arizona State University, US); David Birchfield (Arizona State University, US)
17.00 - 18.00 Break
18.00 Demos & Poster Session
Dinner Reception
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote John Lefor
Director, European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC), Aachen, Germany
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10.30 - 12.00 Session 4 Multi-sensor cross correlation for alarm generation in a deployed sensor network
Ian Marshall (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK), Mark Price (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK), Hai Li (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK), N. Boyd (Salamander Group, Williams House Manchester Science Park, UK), S. Boult (Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Manchester University, UK)

Escalation: Complex Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Michael Zoumboulakis (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK); George Roussos (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

Ambient Energy Scavenging for Sensor-equipped RFID Tags in the Cold Chain
Christian Metzger (ETH Zurich, CH), Florian Michahelles (ETH Zurich, CH), Elgar Fleisch (ETH Zurich, CH)
12.00 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00 Industrial Panel Session
Making It Work - the Industrial Perspective!
15.30-18.00 Social Event
18.00-21.00 Conference Banquet
Thursday, 25 October 2007
9:00 - 10:30 Session 5 Context Sensitive Adaptive Authentication.
Bob Hulsebosch (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands), Mortaza Bargh (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands), Gabriele Lenzini (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands), Peter Ebben (Telematica Institute, The Netherlands), and Sorin Iacob (Decis Lab, The Netherlands)

Deployment Experience Toward Core Abstractions for Context Aware Applications
Martin Matthias Finke (University of British Columbia, CA); Michael Blackstock (University of British Columbia, CA); Rodger Lea (University of British Columbia, CA)

Towards Mood-based Mobile Services and Applications
Alexander Gluhak (The University of Surrey, UK); Mirko Presser (University of Surrey, UK); Ling Zhu (University of Surrey, UK); Sohail Esfandiyari (University of Surrey, UK); Stefan Kupschick (Human Factors Consult, DE)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11.00 - 12.30 Session 6 Recognition of user activity sequences using distributed event detection
Oliver Amft (ETH Zurich, CH); Clemens Lombriser (Wearable Computing Lab, ETH Zurich, CH); Thomas Stiefmeier (ETH Zurich, CH); Gerhard Troster (Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zurich, CH)

Behavior Detection Based on Touched Objects with Dynamic Threshold Determination Model
Hiroyuki Yamahara (Ritsumeikan University, JP); Hideyuki Takada (Ritsumeikan University, JP); Hiromitsu Shimakawa (Ritsumeikan University, JP)

Recognising Activities of Daily Life using Hierarchical Plans
Usman Naeem (Queen Mary University of London, UK); John Bigham (Queen Mary, University of London, UK); Jinfu Wang (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
12.30 - 13.00 Closing Session