Pervasive Expression: Workshop on Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display May 18, 2008

Pervasive 2008, the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing

Session 1: Sensing and activity recognition:

• Detecting Human Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing
  
  Shwetak Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology, US), Matt Reynolds (Georgia Institute of Technology, US), Gregory Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)


• Robust Recognition of Reading Activity in Transit Using Wearable Electrooculography
  
  Andreas Bulling (Wearable Computing Laboratory, ETH Zurich, CH), Jamie Ward (Lancaster University, UK), Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University, UK), Gerhard Tröster (Wearable Computing Lab ETH Zürich, CH)



• Pressing the Flesh: Detecting Multiple Touch and Finger Pressure on Arbitrary Surfaces
  
  Joe Marshall (University of Nottingham, UK), Tony Pridmore (Nottingham University, UK), Mike Pound (University of Nottingham, UK), Steve Benford (University of Nottingham, UK), Boriana Koleva (University of Nottingham, UK)

Session 2: Applications for mobile devices:

• MAKEIT: Integrate User Interaction Times in the Design Process of Mobile Applications
  
  Paul Holleis (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE), Albrecht Schmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen, DE)


• Cooperative Techniques Supporting Sensor-based People-centric Inferencing
  
  Nicholas Lane (Dartmouth College, US), Hong Lu (Dartmouth College, US), Shane Eisenman (Columbia University, US), Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College, US)


• Microsearch: When Search Engines Meet Small Devices
  
  Chiu Tan (College of William and Mary, US), Bo Sheng (College of William and Mary, US), Haodong Wang (College of William and Mary, US), Qun Li (College of William and Mary, US)

Session 3: Location in Pervasive Systems:

• Identifying Meaningful Places: The Non-Parametric Way
  
  Petteri Nurmi (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, FI), Sourav Bhattacharya (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT, FI)



• An Integrated Platform for the Management of Mobile Location-Aware Information Systems
  
  Anthony Savidis (FORTH, GR), Manolis Zidianakis (FORTH, GR), Nikolaos Kazepis (FORTH, GR), Dimitris Grammenos (FORTH, GR), Stephanos Dubulakis (FORTH, GR), Constantine Stephanidis (FORTH, GR)


• Calibree: Calibration-free Localization using Relative Distance Estimations
  
  Alex Varshavsky (University of Toronto, CA), Denis Pankratov (University of Toronto, CA), John Krumm (Microsoft Research, US), Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto, CA)


• Location Conflict Resolution with an Ontology
  
  William Niu (University of Sydney, AU), Judy Kay (The University of Sydney, AU)

Session 4: Platforms for pervasive computing:

• Evaluation and Analysis of a Common Model for Ubiquitous Systems Interoperability
  
  Michael Blackstock (University of British Columbia, CA), Rodger Lea (University of British Columbia, CA), Charles Krasic (University of British Columbia, CA



• A Context-Aware System that Changes Sensor Combinations Considering Energy Consumption
  
  Kazuya Murao (Osaka University, JP), Tsutomu Terada (Kobe University, JP), Yoshinari Takegawa (Kobe University, JP), Shojiro Nishio (Osaka University, JP)


• Providing an Integrated User Experience of Networked Media, Devices, and Services Through End-User Composition
  
  Mark W. Newman (University of Michigan, US)

Session 5: Lessons learned from displays, games, and health applications:

• Overcoming Assumptions and Uncovering Practices: When Does the Public Really Look at Public Displays?
  
  Elaine Huang (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Anna Koster (RWTH Aachen University, DE), Jan Borchers (RWTH Aachen, DE)


• Gaming Tourism: Lessons from Evaluating REXplorer, a Pervasive Game for Tourists
  
  Rafael Ballagas (Nokia Research Center, US), Andre Kuntze (Aachen University, DE), Steffen Walz (ETH Zurich, CH)


• Opportunities for Pervasive Computing in Chronic Cancer Care
  
  
  Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine, US), Gregory Abowd (Georgia Institute of Technology, US), Maria Ebling (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, US), John Davis (IBM, US), Marion Blount (IBM Research, US), Elizabeth Mynatt (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, US)

Session6: Privacy & security:

• AnonySense: Opportunistic and Privacy-Preserving Context Collection
  
  Apu Kapadia (Dartmouth College, US), Nikos Triandopoulos (University of Aarhus, DK), Cory Cornelius (Dartmouth College, US), Daniel Peebles (Dartmouth College, US), David Kotz (Dartmouth College, US)


• Privacy Protection for RFID’s—Hidden Subset Identifiers
  
  Jacek Cichon (Wroclaw University of Technology, PL), Marek Klonowski (TU Wroclaw, PL), Mirek Kutylowski (Wroclaw University of Technology, PL)

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