Martin Strohbach
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Short Bio
Martin Strohbach is a PhD student and Researcher in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK. He received his Diploma (MSc equivalent) at University of Karlsruhe, Germany in the area of context-aware systems in 2001. His advisors are Hans Gellersen and Gerd Kortuem. Martin is now in his fourth year close to finishing his Phd.
Martin is generally interested in ubicomp systems and technologies including context and location awareness. His particularly interest is in Wireless Sensor Networks that are used to instrument physical objects, often referred to as Smart Objects. The contribution of his PhD will be a rule-based programming model for Wireless Sensor Nodes that abstracts from lower level details and allows to focus on the declaration of application level rules. These rules determine how nodes assess the state of their environment and the actions that should be taken. As nodes act as autonomous peers these decisions can be made without any external infrastructure. The whole network represents a single distributed knowledge base that contains semantic data about the environment which can be queried by external sources. We call nodes or physical objects that implement such a model Cooperative Artefacts. His work has been evaluated in the context of two concrete applications from the health and safety domain in cooperation with industrial partners. Martin's research is part of Lancaster's focus on Embedded and Interactive Systems (EIS).
- NEMO - Networked Embedded Models and Memories of Physical Work Activity. The NEMO project is an EPSRC-funded collaborative effort by the Departments of Computing, Management Science and Psychology at Lancaster University aimed at the inter-disciplinary investigation of ubiquitous computing technologies and embedded wireless systems for industrial workplaces. The focal point of the project is the development and use of 'smart artefacts', i.e. work-related objects such as tools and containers augmented with embedded computing, sensing and wireless communication capabilities.
- CoBIs - Collaborative Business Items. The CoBIs project will develop a new approach to business processes involving physical entities such as goods and tools in enterprise environments. The intention is to apply advances in networked systems to embed business logic in the physical entities. The goal is to create Collaborative Business Items (CoBIs) that make it possible to relate more closely the state of an enterprise as represented in business processes with what is actually happing in the real world.
- Smart-its - EU funded project; now finished. This projected investigated the potential of embedding computational power into phyical artefact. The project is now succesfully completed and has provided three hardware platforms for artefact augmentation: (1) Particle Smart-its (2) DIY Smart-its and (3) BTnodes. Martin has actively contributed to the development of the DIY Smart-its and helped developing an architecture for Smart-its by prototyping demonstrators that lead to a cooperation model for distributed reasoning between augmented artefacts.
- EQUATOR: EPSRC funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) that focues on physical and digital interaction.
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Bischoff, U.; Strohbach, M.; Hazas, M. & Kortuem, G. Constraint-based Distance Estimation in Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks, in Procceding of EWSN 2006. [pdf]
- M. Strohbach, G. Kortuem, H.-W. Gellersen and Christian Kray. Using Cooperative Artefacts as a Basis for Activity Recognition. In Proceedings of EUSAI 2004.[pdf]
- M. Strohbach, H.-W. Gellersen, G. Kortuem and Christian Kray. Cooperative Artefacts: Assessing Real World Situations with Embedded Technology. Accepted for Publication in Ubicomp 2004. [pdf] [ppt]
- L.E. Holmquist, H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, S. Antifakos, F. Michahelles, B. Schiele, M. Beigl and Ramia Mazé. Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-its. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, January/February 2004, Vol. 24, No. 1, IEEE Press pp.56-63 [pdf]
- C. Kray and M. Strohbach.:Gesture-based interface reconfiguration. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS) at Ubicomp 2004, Seattle, USA.[pdf] [Video .mp4 - 5 MB] [Video .avi 50MB]
- Lars Erik Holmquist, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Florian Michahelles, Michael Beigl, Lalya Gaye, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt and Martin Strohbach: Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-Its. SIGGRAPH 2003, Emerging Technologies exhibition.[Video]
- M. Strohbach and H.-W. Gellersen. Smart Clustering - Networking Smart Objects Based On Their Physical Relationships. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA5), Liverpool 2002. [pdf]
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E. Catterall, K. Van Laerhoven and M. Strohbach. "Self-Organization in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks: An Empirical Study". In Proc. of Artificial Life VIII, The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. Sydney, Australia. MIT Press, 2002, pp. 260-264. [pdf]
- A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, K. Van Laerhoven, A. Friday and H.-W. Gellersen. "Context Acquisition 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, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2002, pp. 333 - 351. [pdf]
Other Papers
- Strohbach, M.; Kortuem, G. & Gellersen, H. (2005),Cooperative Artefacts - A Framework for Embedding Knowledge in Real World Objects, in 'Workshop on Smart Object Systems, co-located with Ubicomp 2005'.[pdf][ppt]
- M. Strohbach. “A Dispersed Systems Framework for Application Development based on Smart Objects”. First Year Report for PhD Assessment, May 2003. [pdf]
Presentations
Videos
- Building Intelligent Devices with Smart-its. [14MB]
- Ubiquitous interaction - Using surfaces in everyday environments as pointing devices [50 MB] [20MB] [3MB]
- Smart-Its Rapid Protoyping Video (Photo show) [65MB] [15MB] [1MB] [other encodings]
- Weight Table Browser [.mp4 (5MB) ] [.avi 50MB]
Professional Activities
- Co-Chair 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC), in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2006, Lisbon, Portugal
- Co-Chair Workshop on Smart Object Systems, in conjunction with Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo, Japan
- Program Committee Member: The 2005 International Conference on Pervasive Systems and Computing (PCS-05), USA 2005
Contact details
Computing Department
Faculty of Applied Sciences
InfoLab 21, South Drive,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster LA1 4WA
UK
Room: D 21
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510369
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510492
Email: strohbach@comp.lancs.ac.uk
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