Publications

Albrecht Schmidt (albrecht@comp.lancs.ac.uk)

Computing Department
Lancaster University, UK

PhD Thesis - Journal Papers - Conference and Workshop Publications - Edited Issues - Technical Reports -Patents - Master Thesis - Recent Presentations - Contact Details

• Albrecht Schmidt,
  Ubiquitous Computing - Computing in Context
  A thesis submitted to Lancaster University for the degree of Ph.D. in Computer Science, November, 2002.
  Read the abstract, download the thesis in PDF (3.2MB), high quality PDF (6.5MB), low resolution PDF (1.5MB).

PhD Thesis

• A.K. Dey, A. Schmidt, J. McCarthy (Editors.)
  UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing; 5th International Conference,
  Seattle, WA, USA, October 12-15, 2003, Proceedings Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2864 2003, XVII, ISBN: 3-540-20301-X, online version

• A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem, D. Morse und A. Dey (Editors)
  Situated Interaction and Context-Aware Computing
  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Volume 5(1), 2001. online version

Edited Books and Journal Special Issues

• H. Gellersen, G. Kortuem, M. Beigl and A. Schmidt
  Physical Prototyping with Smart-Its
  IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazin (accepted for publication)

• L. E. Holmquist, H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, G. Kortuem, S. Antifakos, F. Michahelles, .B. Schiele, M. Beigl, R. Mazé
  Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-Its
  IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications. January/February 2004 (Vol. 24, No. 1), pp. 56-64

• N. Villar, A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem and H.-W. Gellersen.
  Interacting with Proactive Community Displays.
  Computers & Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 6, 2003. pp.849-857

• F. Michahelles, P. Matter, A. Schmidt, B. Schiele.
  Applying Wearable Sensors to Avalanche Rescue: First Experiences with a Novel Avalanche Beacon.
  Computer & Graphics, Vol. 27, No. 6, 2003, pp. 839-847

• K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar, A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellersen, M. Håkansson, L. E. Holmquist
  In-Home Networking - Pin&Play: The Surface as Network Medium
  IEEE Communications Magazine, no. 4, April 2003

• H.W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt and M. Beigl
  Multi-Sensor Context-Awareness in Mobile Devices and Smart Artifacts
  in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Oct 2002, Download the draft version of the paper in PDF.

• H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt.
  Look who's visiting: supporting visitor awareness in the web.
  International Journal of Human Computer Studies IJHCS 56(1), January 2002. pp. 25-46.
  Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt,  H.-W. Gellersen.
  Modell, Architektur und Plattform für Informationssysteme mit Kontextbezug.
  Infromatik Forschung und Entwicklung. Band 16, Heft 4. November 2001. pp213-224. Download the draft version of the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, K. Van Laerhoven.
  How to Build Smart Appliances?
  IEEE Personal Communications 8(4), August 2001.pp. 66-71. Download draft version of the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt,  H.-W. Gellersen.
  Nutzung von Kontext in ubiquitären Informationssystemen.
  it+ti - Informationstechnik und technische Informatik, Sonderheft “Ubiquitous Computing - der allgegenwärtige Computer”. 2001, Volume 43, Issue 02, p. 83-90. Download draft version of the paper in PDF (in German).

• M. Beigl, H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt.
  Mediacups: Experience with Design and Use of Computer-Augmented Everyday Artefacts.
  Computer Networks, Special Issue on Pervasive Computing, Elsevier. Vol. 35, No. 4, March 2001, Elsevier, p. 401-409. Download draft verson of the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, A. Takaluoma und J. Mäntyjärvi.
  Context-Aware Telephony over WAP
  Personal Technologies Volume 4(4), September 2000. pp225-229. Download draft version of the paper in PDF

• A. Schmidt.
  Implicit Human Computer Interaction Through Context
  Personal Technologies Volume 4(2&3), June 2000. pp191-199. Download draft version of the paper in PDF

• Hans-W. Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt and Michael Beigl
  Ambient Media for Peripheral Information Display
  Personal Technologies Volume 3(4), December 1999.  pp199-208. (Extension of the CoBuild'99 workshop paper "Matching Information and Ambient Media")

• A. Schmidt, M. Beigl, H.W. Gellersen
  There is more to context than location.
  Computers & Graphics Journal, Elsevier, Volume 23, No.6, Dez 99, pp 893-902. Download draft version of the paper in PDF

• A. Schmidt und H.W. Gellersen.
  Suchen im Internet - Finden und Gefunden werden.
  HMD (Journal), Theorie und Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Heft 205, 36. Jahrg., Februar 1999. pp 88-103. Abstract online available at the publisher (in German).

Refereed Journal Papers
 

• A. Schmidt, T. Kölbl, S. Wagner, W. Straßmeier
  Enabling Access to Computers for People with Poor Reading Skills
  angenommen zur Publikation bei: User Interfaces for All (UI4ALL), Wien, June 2004.

• A. Schmidt
  Interactive Context-Aware Systems - Interacting with Ambient Intelligence
  Buchkapitel angenommen zur Publikation für das Buch Ambient Intelligence, IOS Press 2004.

• W. Gaver, A. Boucher, S. Pennington, B. Walker, J. Bowers, H. Gellerson, A. Schmidt, N. Villars, A. Steed,
  The Drift Table: Designing for Ludic Engagement (Design expo case studies)
  ACM International Conference. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna, Austria, April 2004. pp 885-900. (online version in the ACM DL)

• K. Van Laerhoven, N. Villar, A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem and H.-W. Gellersen.
  Using an Autonomous Cube for Basic Navigation and Input.
  ICMI/PUI 2003. ACM Press. Vancouver, Canada. November 2003, pp. 203-211.

• N. Kern, B. Schiele, A. Schmidt.
  Multi-Sensor Activity Context Detection for Wearable Computing.
  European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence(EUSAI), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2003

• F. Michahelles, S. Antifakos, J. Boutellier, A. Schmidt, B. Schiele
  Instructions immersed into the real world How your Furniture can teach you (Poster).
  The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp), Seattle, USA, October 2003.

• F. Michahelles, P. Matter, A. Schmidt and B. Schiele
  Applying Wearable Sensors to Avalanche Rescue: First Experiences with a Novel Avalanche Beacon
  Int. Workshop on Mobile Computing (IMC Workshop), Rostock, Germany, Juni 2003.
  (in erweiterter Form angenommen zur Publikation im Journal Computers&Graphics)

• N. Villar, H-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem.
  Interacting with Proactive Community Displays.
  Int. Workshop on Mobile Computing (IMC Workshop), Rostock, Germany, Juni 2003.
  (in erweiterter Form angenommen zur Publikation im Journal Computers&Graphics)

• A. Schmidt, F. Siegemund, M. Beigl, S. Antifakos, F. Michahelles, H.-W. Gellersen.
  Mobile Ad Hoc Communication Issues in Ubiquitous Computing - The Smart-Its Experimentation Platforms.
  Personal Wireless Communications. (PWC 2003). Springer LNCS Vol. 2775/2003. pp. 213-8

• A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, K. Van Laerhoven, and H.W. Gellersen
  Ubiquitous Interaction - Using Surfaces in Everyday Environments as Pointing Devices
  7th ERCIM Workshop "User Interfaces For All", 23 - 25 October, 2002,  LNCS, ?-?. Download the paper in PDF, more on the hardware and software developed

• K. Van Laerhoven, A. Schmidt and H.-W. Gellersen.
  Multi-Sensor Context-Aware Clothing
  In Proceedings of the sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2002, Seattle, WA. IEEE Press, pp. ?-?. Download the paper in PDF

• A Schmidt, K Van Laerhoven, M Strohbach, A Friday and HW Gellersen
  Context Acquistion based on Load Sensing
  In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, G. Boriello and L.E. Holmquist (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2498, ISBN 3-540-44267-7; Springer Verlag, Göteborg, Sweden. September 2002, pp. 333 - 351. Download the paper in PDF., See the slides from the talk at ubicomp 2002, more on the hardware and software developed

• K. Van Laerhoven, A. Schmidt and H.-W. Gellersen.
  Pin&Play: Networking Objects through Pins
  In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, G. Boriello and L.E. Holmquist (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2498, ISBN 3-540-44267-7; Springer Verlag, Göteborg, Sweden. September 2002, pp.219 - 229.  Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Thede, A. Schmidt, C. Merz.
  Integration of goods delivery supervision into E-Commerce supply chain.
  Second International Workshop on Electronic Commerce (WELCOM'01). November 16-17, 2001. Heidelberg, Germany. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Thede, A. Schmidt, C. Merz.
  Integration von Transportdaten in den E-Commerce Workflow.
  Informatik 2001 Workshop. E-Commerce: System Support Dealing with Data and Processes in Distributed Application Environments (ECDPvA 01). September 27th, 2001. Vienna, Austria. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, T. Stuhr, H.-W. Gellersen.
  Context-Phonebook - Extending Mobile Phone Applications with Context.
  Third Mobile HCI Workshop, Lille, Sept. 2001. http://www.mobilehci.org/.  Download the paper in PDF.

•  A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellersen.
  Visitor Awareness in the Web.
  10th World-Wide Web Conference (WWW10), W3C, Hongkong, May 2001. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. K. Dey, P. Ljungstrand, A. Schmidt.
  Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing.
  CHI 2001 Extented Abstracts, Conference on Human Factors in Computing System, Seattle 2001. Download the paper in PDF

• H.-W. Gellersen, D. Richtsteiger, O. Frick, K. Schulz, A. Schmidt.
  Paper-to-Web: Papier als Eingabemedium für Formulare im World-Wide Web.
  Interdisziplinäre Tagung Mensch & Computer 2001, GI, Bonn, March 2001. Download the paper in PDF (in German).

• A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellersen, M. Beigl, O. Frick.
  Entwicklung von WAP-Anwendungen.
  Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen (KiVS 2001). GI-Tagung, Hamburg, February 2001. Download the paper in PDF  (in German).

• H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, M. Beigl.
  Adding Some Smartness to Devices and Everyday Things.
  IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications 2000 (WMCSA’00), 7.-8. Dez. 2000, Monterrey, USA, IEEE Press. (also selected for special issue to appear in ACM MONET). Download the paper in PDF.

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• A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellersen, M. Beigl, O. Thate.
  Developing User Interfaces for Wearable Computers: Don’t Stop to Point and Click.
  International Workshop on Interactive Applications of Mobile Computing (IMC2000), 9.-10. November 2000, Warnemünde. Institut für Grafische Datenverarbeitung, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, H-W. Gellersen und C. Merz.
  Enabling Implicit Human Computer Interaction - A Wearable RFID-Tag Reader
  International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC2000), October, 16-17, 2000. Atlanta, GA, USA. pp193-194. Download the paper in PDF

• A. Schmidt und H-W. Gellersen.
  Implizite und situationsbezogene Unterstützung von Arbeitsprozessen.
  CSCW-Umgebungen im Spannungsfeld realer und virtueller Welten. Workshop im Rahmen der German Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Conference D-CSCW 2000 "Verteiltes Arbeiten - Arbeit der Zukunft", 12.9.2000, München. Download the paper in PDF (in German).

•  H-W. Gellersen, M. Beigl und A. Schmidt.
  Sensor-based Context-Awareness for Situated Computing.
  Workshop on Software Engineering for Wearable and Pervasive Computing SEWPC00 at the 22nd Int. Conference on Software Engineering ICSE 2000. Limerick, Ireland, 6.June 2000. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, W. Van de Velde and Gerd Kortuem
  Situated Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing
  CHI 2000 Extented Abstracts, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
  pp 374 .ISBN 1-58113-216-6. Download the paper in PDF

• A. Schmidt, H. Schröder and O. Frick
  WAP - Designing for Small User Interfaces
  CHI 2000 Extented Abstracts, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
  pp 187-8.ISBN 1-58113-216-6. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, H.W. Gellersen, and M. Beigl. 
  A Wearable Context-Awareness Component - Finally a Good Reason to Wear a Tie. 
   Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Wearable Computers. San Fransico, 18-19. Oct. 1999. IEEE. ISBN 0-7695-0428-0. pp 176-177. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, H.W. Gellersen, and M. Beigl. 
  Matching Information and Ambient Media. 
  In Proceedings of CoBuild'99. Second International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings, Pittsburgh. LNCS 1670. Springer: Heidelberg 1999. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, K.A. Aidoo, A. Takaluoma, U. Tuomela, K. Van Laerhoven, W. Van de Velde.
  Advanced Interaction in Context.
  1th International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC99), Karlsruhe, Germany, 1999 & Lecture notes in computer science; Vol 1707, ISBN 3-540-66550-1; Springer, 1999, pp 89-101. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt and J. Forbess
  What GPS Doesn't Tell You: Determining One's Context with Low-Level Sensors. 
  The 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, September 5 - 8, 1999, Paphos, Cyprus.

• Albrecht Schmidt, M. Beigl and H-W. Gellersen.
  Sensor-based adaptive mobile user interfaces. 
  Proceedings 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, München, Germany, August 1999. Volume 2, pp 251-255.

• D. Chen, A. Schmidt, H.-W. Gellesen.
  An Architecture for Multi-Sensor Fusion in Mobile Environments.
  Proceedings International Conference on Information Fusion, Sunnyvale, CA, USA, July 1999. volume II, pp 861-868. Download the paper in PDF.

• H-W. Gellersen, M. Beigl and A. Schmidt.
  Environment-Mediated Mobile Computing.
  Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC99), 28 Feb - 2 Mar, San Antonio, TX, USA, ACM Press 1999. pp 416-418. Download the paper in PDF.

• M. Gaedke, H-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, U. Stegemüller and W. Kurr.
  Object-oriented Web Engineering for Large-Scale Web Service Management.
  Proceedings of 32nd Annual Hawaii Interantional Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-32), 5-8 January, Island of Maui, USA, 1999.

• M. Beigl, A. Schmidt, M. Lauff, H.W. Gellersen
  UbicompBrowser
  Proceedings of the 4th ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, October 1998, Stockholm, Sweden. Download the paper in PDF.

• M. Lauff, A. Schmidt and H.W. Gellersen
  A Universal Messaging Agent Integrating Device Modalities For Individualised Mobile Communication
  Proc. of the 13th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. October 98, Belek-Antalya, Turkey, 1998, pp 498-505.

•  A. Schmidt, Z. Bandar
  Modularity - a Concept for new Neural Network Architectures
  IASTED International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (CSA'98) 1998 in Irbid/Jordan pp 26-29. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, A. Specker, G. Partsch, M. Weber und S. Hoeck
  An Agent-Based Telecooperation Framework. 
  Proceedings of CoBuild'98. Darmstadt, February 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1370. Springer: Heidelberg, 1998., Darmstadt, Februar 1998. Download the paper in PDF.

• G. Partsch, A. Schmidt, A. Specker und M. Weber
  Multimedia technologies and Internet services for optimizing civil engineering projects.
  Proceedings of the 16th IASTED International Conference APPLIED INFORMATICS - AI'98, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Februar23-25 1998.

• M. Weber, T. Illmann und A. Schmidt
  WebFlow - Decentralized work-flow management in the World Wide Web. 
  Proceedings of the 16th IASTED International Conference APPLIED INFORMATICS - AI'98, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Februar23-25 1998. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, Z. Bandar
  A modular neural network architecture with additional generalisation abilities for large input vectors
  Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms (ICANNGA) 1997 in Norwich/England. Download the paper in PDF.

• A. Schmidt, G. Kortuem, D. Morse und A. Dey (Editors)
  Situated Interaction and Context-Aware Computing
  Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Volume 5(1), 2001.

• A. K. Dey, P. Ljungstrand, A. Schmidt.  (Editors)
  Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing
  Workshop Proceedings published as technical report at the University of Karlsruhe, 2001. (Interner Bericht 2001-6 der  Universität Karlsruhe, Fakultät für Informatik, ISSN 1432-7864)
  Workshop homepage, Online version and paper download.

•  A. Schmidt, O. Frick, T. Gross (Editors)
  WAP - Interaktionsdesign und Benutzbarkeit
  Workshop Proceedings published as technical report at the University of Karlsruhe, 2001. (Interner Bericht 2001-4 der  Universität Karlsruhe, Fakultät für Informatik, ISSN 1432-7864)
  Workshop homepage, Online version and paper download.

• A. Schmidt (Editor)
  Situated Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing
  Workshop Proceedings published as technical report at the University of Karlsruhe, 2000. (Interner Bericht 2000-7 der  Universität Karlsruhe, Fakultät für Informatik, ISSN 1432-7864)

  Workshop homepage, Online version and paper download.

Edited Issues

• Inventors: J. Mann, , C. Merz, A. Spriestersbach, A. Schmidt, H-W. Gellersen, M. Beigl
  Computerized system for automatically monitoring processing of objects
  Patent Number: US2002/0080031 (Publication date: 2002-06-27), Applicant: SAP AG (DE)

Albrecht Schmidt.
A modular neural network architecture with additional generalisation abilities for high dimensional input vectors.
A thesis submitted to the Manchester Metropolitan University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Computing. September 1996. Download thesis in PDF.

• Eingebettete Interaktion (Abstract)
  GI-Beirat der Universitätsprofessoren Jahrestreffen, Dagstuhl, 7. April 2004

• Sensor Networks - A Resource for Novel Interactive Applications? (Abstract, slides)
  Dagstuhl Seminar on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications, 18. März 2004

• Context - Enabling New Ways in Human Computer Interaction (slides)
  Workshop on Context-Aware Systems (Nexus-Eröffnungskolloquium), Stuttgart, Germany, 14th November 2003

• Embedded Interaction - Towards Human-Information-Symbiosis (slides)
  Talk at Microsoft Research, Seattle, USA, 16th October 2003

• Interacting with the Ubiquitous Computer (abstract, slides)
  Keynote at MobileHCI 03, Udine, Italy, 10th September 2003

• Ubiquitous Computing - Computing and Interaction in Context (abstract, Slides 1MB)
  Talk at NTT DoCoMo Eurolabs in Munich, Germany, 20th August 2003

• From Direct Manipulation to Physical Interaction (abstract)
  Talk at the HCI Group Seminar Series at the University of Bath, UK, 18th June 2003

• Prototyping and Exploring the Ubiquitous Computing Vision (Slides, 1MB)
  Talk given at SICS - Swedish Institute of Computer Science, 22. January 2003,Stockholm, Sweden.

• Ubiquitous Computing – Computing in Context (Slides, 1.5MB, low res slides 400k)
  Talk at Fraunhofer-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany, November 2002.

• Context Acquistion based on Load Sensing
  presentation at Ubicomp 2002 (www.ubicomp.org)in Göteborg (Slides)

• Context-Awareness, Disappearing and Distributed User Interfaces
  - Experience, Open Issues and Research Questions (Slides, Abstract)
  Talk at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Ubiquitous Computing. http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/events/dag2001

• Visitor Awareness in the Web (Slides)
  Talk at the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW10) in Hong Kong. May 1-5, 2001. http://www10.org

• Entwicklung von WAP-Anwendungen (Folien)
  Talk in GERMAN at the KiVS 2001 in Hamburg. 21/02/01. http://www.kivs2001.de/

• Context-Aware Telephony over WAP (Slides).
  Talk at the Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (huc2k) in Bristol. 26. Sept. 2000.

• Advanced Interaction in Context (Slides)
  Talk at the International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (huc99) in Karlsruhe. 28. Sept. 1999. http://www.teco.edu/huc/

                           .. more talks at my old page at TecO

Selected Talks and Presentations

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