Publications

The Benefit of Activity Recognition for Mobile Phone Based Nursing Documentation: Wizard-of-Oz Study.
@INPROCEEDINGS{ author = {Bashar Altakouri, Gerd Kortuem, Agnes Grünerbl and Paul Lukowicz},
title = {The Benefit of Activity Recognition for Mobile Phone Based Nursing Documentation: Wizard-of-Oz Study},
booktitle = {ISWC'10, the fourteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers},
year = {2010},
address = {COEX, Seoul, South Korea},
month = {Oct. 10th ~ 13th},
abstract = {In a Wizard-of-Oz experiment we investigate to what degree automatic activity recognition can support the use of prioritized lists for nursing documentation on hand held mobile devices. The study involved 15 nurses, 60 patients records and over 250 documented processes at a geriatric care ward. Based on time effort, interaction complexity, error rate and subjective system perception we show that activity recognition is a key factor in the usability and acceptance of the system. We also study the impact of activity recognition errors and demonstrate that error rates of up to 25% do not aversely affect the documentation process.} }

Supporting Interaction with the Internet of Things across Objects, Time and Space.
@INPROCEEDINGS{ author = {Fahim Kawsar, Gerd Kortuem and Bashar Altakrouri},
title = {Supporting Interaction with the Internet of Things across Objects, Time and Space},
booktitle = {Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT-2010)},
address = {Tokyo, Japan},
month = {Nov 29 - Dec 1},
abstract = {Effectively assisting people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work activities and their intended outcomes, as well as novel interaction approach for distributing and coordinating information across physical objects, time and space. This paper describes a novel modeling technique for pervasive systems based on high-level models of human activities, so-called situated flows and presents a corresponding flow driven distributed software framework. This framework provides the foundation for discovery, adaptation and execution of flows in real time matching the dynamics of real world activity and consequently drives the pervasive interaction using push interfaces to facilitate a synergic coordinated interaction experience in dynamic work environment.} }

Designing Pervasive Interactions for Ambient Guidance with Situated Flows.
@INPROCEEDINGS{ author = {Fahim Kawsar, Gerd Kortuem, and Bashar Altakrouri},
title = {Designing Pervasive Interactions for Ambient Guidance with Situated Flows},
booktitle = {Fourth International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence,
in collaboration with the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2010)},
year = {2010},
address = {Toronto, Canada},
month = {August31- September 3, 2010},
abstract = {Effectively guiding people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work activities and their intended outcomes, as well as novel user interface models for distributing guidance information across time and space. This paper describes a new line of research aimed at developing a new programming and human interface approach for pervasive systems based on high-level models of human activities, so-called situated flows, and mobile projector interfaces for uncovering task information embedded in physical environments.} }

Spin&Swing : Spatial Interaction with Orientation Aware Devices.
@MISC{altakrouri10,
author = {Bashar Altakrouri, Fahim Kawsar, and Gerd Kortuem},
title = {Spin&Swing : Spatial Interaction with Orientation Aware Devices},
howpublished = {Demo paper in the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010)},
month = {17 - 20 May},
year = {2010},
note = {Demo},
abstract = {We present Spin&Swing, a spatial interaction technique that leverages user’s orientation as an active input to interact with mobile applications. With Spin&Swing, a user can trigger a variety of mobile operations by orienting her spatially aware mobile device with in the sphere around her. In our current prototype this 360° circular orientation is mapped into a temporal dimension enabling users to browse and visualize historical interaction with an application in context. The demo showcases a prototype application where we have utilized this technique using a mobile device to visualize and browse the historical information recorded by a digital memory augmented shoe in a personal travel log application.},
keywords = {Spatial Interaction, Orientation Awareness, and History Browsing},
location = {Helsinki, Finland},
timestamp = {2010.06.03},
url = {http://www.pervasive2010.org/demos.html} }

Flow Driven Ambient Guidance.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Kortuem10,
author = {Gerd Kortuem, Fahim Kawsar, and Bashar Altakrouri},
title = {Flow Driven Ambient Guidance},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE Int'l Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010)},
year = {2010},
month = {March 29 - April 2},
publisher = {IEEE},
note = {Work-in-Progress},
abstract = {Effectively guiding people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work activities and their intended outcomes, as well as novel user interface models for distributing guidance information across time and space. This paper describes a new line of research aimed at developing a new programming and human interface approach for pervasive systems based on high-level models of human activities, so-called pervasive flows, and mobile projector interfaces for uncovering task information embedded in physical environments.},
keywords = {Pervasive Flow, Guidence, and Projected Interface}, location = {Mannheim},
timestamp = {2010.06.03},
url = {http://www.percom.org/} }

Flow-driven Interactions for Adaptive Pervasive Applications.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/gi/Altakrouri09,
author = {Bashar Altakrouri},
title = {Flow-driven Interactions for Adaptive Pervasive Applications},
booktitle = {GI Jahrestagung},
year = {2009},
pages = {2216-2120},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/gi/2009},
abstract = {The era of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technology opens the world for new pervasive applications and services within the physical surroundings. Often users find themselves dealing and interacting with multiple applications simultaneously to achieve certain goals to satisfy certain motive. Currently, pervasive computing applications are individually created and tailored with little or no consideration of the users’ overall goals and intentions. My research investigates the concept of flow-driven interactions as a prominent and innovative model for goal-driven activities carried out by users in the pervasive computing setup. Flow-driven interaction model is aimed at overcoming problems such as interaction consistency, losing orientation, context switching and interface adaptation, resulted from user interaction with multiple pervasive applications, devices and objects.},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }
@proceedings{DBLP:conf/gi/2009,
editor = {Stefan Fischer and Erik Maehle and R{\"u}diger Reischuk},
title = {Informatik 2009: Im Focus das Leben, Beitr{\"a}ge der 39. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f{\"u}ur Informatik e.V. (GI), 28.9.-2.10.2009, L{\"u}beck, Proceedings},
booktitle = {GI Jahrestagung},
publisher = {GI},
series = {LNI},
volume = {154},
year = {2009},
isbn = {978-3-88579-248-2},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

Ambient Media Services in Intelligent Environments.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Altakrouri&Schrader09,
author = {Bashar Altakrouri and Andreas Schrader},
title = {Ambient Media Services in Intelligent Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments. IE09. Special Session on Awareness Systems},
editor = {Callaghan, V.; Kameas, A.; Reyes, A.; Royo, D., Weber, M. (eds.)},
volume = {Volume 2 Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments},
series = {ISBN 978-1-60750-034-6},
pages = {75-82},
month = {July 20-21},
publisher = {IOS Press, Amsterdam},
location = {Barcelona, Spain},
timestamp = {2010.06.03} }

Mobile HolstenTour: Contextualized Multimedia Museum Guide.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/momm/TakrouriDMOSZS08,
author = {Bashar Al Takrouri and Karen Detken and Carlos Martinez and Mari-Klara Oja and Steve Stein and Luo Zhu and Andreas Schrader},
title = {Mobile HolstenTour: contextualized multimedia museum guide},
booktitle = {MoMM},
year = {2008},
pages = {460-463},
ee = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1497185.1497283},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/momm/2008},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
} @proceedings{DBLP:conf/momm/2008,
editor = {Gabriele Kotsis and David Taniar and Eric Pardede and Ismail Khalil Ibrahim},
title = {MoMM'2008 - The 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, 24 - 26 November 2008,
Linz, Austria},
booktitle = {MoMM},
publisher = {ACM},
year = {2008},
isbn = {978-1-60558-269-6},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} }

Pictory - A Hybrid Augmented Table-Top Game using Image Search Engines.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Altakrouri07,
author = {Altakrouri, B., Bustamante, L., Canonico, A., Janiszewski, M., Nikolova, E., Talmantas, M., and Schrader, A.},
title = {Pictory - A Hybrid Augmented Table-Top Game using Image Search Engines},
booktitle = {the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Gaming applications (PERGAMES'2007)},
year = {2007},
month = {June 11-12},
publisher = {Shaker Verlag, Aachen 2007},
location = {Salzburg, Austria},
timestamp = {2010.06.03},
url = {www.pergames.de} }

eyeJOT - A Ubiquitous Context-aware Campus Information System.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Altakrouri207, author = {Al Takrouri, B., Canonico, A., Gongora, L., Janiszewski, M., Toader, C., and Schrader, A.},
title = {eyeJOT - A Ubiquitous Context-aware Campus Information System}, booktitle = {Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07)},
year = {2007},
month = {July 26-27},
publisher = {IEEE press},
location = {Birmingham, UK},
timestamp = {2010.06.03},
url = {http://www.icpca.uce.ac.uk/)} }

PortNet Navigator:Internet-Based Visual Planning Tool for Maritime Logistics.
@INPROCEEDINGS{Hasebrook07, author = {Hasebrook, Joachim P.; Janiszewski, Michal; Mansilla, Wendy Ann; Schmidts, Uli; Altakrouri, Bashar}, title = {PortNet Navigator:Internet-Based Visual Planning Tool for Maritime Logistics},
booktitle = {The 3rd International Symposium on Management, Engineering and Informatics: MEI 2007},
year = {2007},
month = {July 8-11},
location = {Orlando, Florida, USA},
timestamp = {2010.06.03},
url = {http://www.iiis-cyber.org/wmsci2007/} }

Campus Memories: Learning with Contextualised Blogging.
@INPROCEEDINGS{deJong07, author = {de Jong, T., Al Takrouri, B., Specht, M., & Koper, R.},
title = {Campus Memories: Learning with Contextualised Blogging},
booktitle = {TENCompetence workshop},
year = {2007},
month = {11th 12th January},
location = {Manchester},
timestamp = {2010.06.03} }