13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
  September 17-21, 2011
   
 
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Session 1 - Being Human

Monday, September 19, 10:30-12:00

Chair: A.J. Brush, Microsoft Research

  • Smiling Makes Us Happier: Enhancing Positive Mood and Communication with Smile-Encouraging Digital Appliances

    Hitomi Tsujita, Jun Rekimoto

  • How to Nudge In Situ: Designing Lambent Devices to Deliver Salience Information in Supermarkets

    Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Yvonne Rogers, Jon Bird, Nicolas Villar, Khaled Bachour, Stephen Payne, Peter M. Todd, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, Stefan Kreitmayer

  • CoDine: An Interactive Multi-sensory System for Remote Dining

    JunWei, XuanWang, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Yongsoon Choi, Xavier Roman Martinez, Remi Tache, Jeffrey Tzu Kwan Valino Koh, Veronica Halupka, Adrian David Cheok

  • Promoting Intergenerational Communication Through Location-Based Asynchronous Video Communication

    Frank Bentley, Santosh Basapur, Sujoy Kumar Chowdhury

  • Living in a Glass House: A Survey of Private Moments in the Home

    Eun Kyoung Choe, Sunny Consolvo, Jaeyeon Jung, Beverly Harrison, Julie A. Kientz

  • FlyingBuddy: Augment Human Mobility and Perceptibility

    Dan He, Haoyi Ren, Weidong Hua, Gang Pan, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu

  • Ready-To-Live: Wearable Computing Meets Fashion

    Mirco Rossi, Burcu Cinaz, Gerhard Tröster


Session 2 - Novel Ubiquitous Technologies

Monday, September 19, 14:00-15:30

Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia

  • Leveraging Conductive Inkjet Technology to Build a Scalable and Versatile Surface for Ubiquitous Sensing

    Nan-Wei Gong, Steve Hodges, Joseph A. Paradiso

  • HeatProbe: A Thermal-based Power Meter for Accounting Disaggregated Electricity Usage

    Bo-Jhang Ho, Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao, Nan-Chen Chen, Chuang-Wen You, Hao-Hua Chu, Ming-Syan Chen

  • LightWave: Using Compact Fluorescent Lights as Sensors

    Sidhant Gupta, Ke-Yu Chen, Matthew S. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel

  • Interactive 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments with a Consumer Depth Camera

    Hao Du, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren, Marvin Cheng, Dan B Goldman, Steven M. Seitz, Dieter Fox

  • Tactile Feedback without a Big Fuss: Simple Actuators for High-Resolution Phantom Sensations

    Hendrik Richter, Benedikt Blaha, Alexander Wiethoff, Dominikus Baur, Andreas Butz

  • Lighting Choreographer: an LED Control System for Dance Performances

    Minoru Fujimoto,Naotaka Fujita,Tsutomu Terada,Masahiko Tsukamoto

  • Qviz: Visualizer of Ramen Queues

    Kazumasa Oshima,Niwat Thepvilojanapong,Yuta Iwasawa, Tatsuya Morita, Yoshito Tobe


Session 3 - On the Move

Monday, September 19, 16:00-17:30

Chair: Shwetak Patel, University of Washington

  • Urban Computing with Taxicabs

    Yu Zheng, Yanchi Liu, Jing Yuan, Xing Xie

  • iBAT: Detecting Anomalous Taxi Trajectories from GPS Traces

    Daqing Zhang, Nan Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Chao Chen, Lin Sun, Shijian Li

  • Where to Find My Next Passenger?

    Jing Yuan, Yu Zheng, Liuhang Zhang, Xing Xie, Guangzhong Sun

  • Out of the Lab and Into the Woods: Kinematic Analysis in Running Using Wearable Sensors

    Christina Strohrmann, Holger Harms, Gerhard Troster, Stefanie Hensler, Roland Muller

  • Route Classification using Cellular Handoff Patterns

    Richard A. Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky and Chris Volinsky

  • Ubira: A Mobile Platform for an Integrated Online/Offline Shopping Experience

    Udana Bandara, James Chen


Session 4 - Near and Far

Tuesday, September 20, 8:30-10:00

Chair: Patrick L. Olivier, Newcastle University

  • Reflections on the Long-term Use of an Experimental Digital Signage System

    Sarah Clinch, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Christos Efstratiou

  • Haptic Reassurance in the Pitch Black for an Immersive Theatre Experience

    Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi, Adam Spiers, David McGoran, Rafael Cronin, Paul O’Dowd

  • When Recommendation Meets Mobile: Contextual and Personalized Recommendation On The Go

    Jinfeng Zhuang, Tao Mei, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying-Qing Xu, Shipeng Li

  • Getting Closer: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of User to Their Smart Phones

    Anind K. Dey, Katarzyna Wac, Denzil Ferreira, Kevin Tassini, Jin-Hyuk Hong, Julian Ramos

  • The Danger of Loose Objects in the Car: Challenges and Opportunities for Ubiquitous Computing

    Daniel Avrahami, Michael Yeganyan, Anthony LaMarca

  • A Ubiquitous Wireless Video Surveillance System Based on Pub/Sub

    Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Steven Lai, Yang Zou, Jun Zhang, Yang Liu, Chisheng Zhang


Session 5 - How Close?

Tuesday, September 20, 14:00-15:30

Chair: Adrian Friday, Lancaster University

  • Who's your best friend? Targeted privacy attacks in location-sharing social networks

    Vassilis Kostakos, Jayant Venkatanathan, Bernardo Reynolds, Norman Sadeh, Eran Toch, Siraj A. Shaikh, Simon Jones

  • On the Limitations of Query Obfuscation Techniques for Location Privacy

    Sai Teja Peddinti, Nitesh Saxena

  • Are you close with me? Are you nearby? Investigating social groups, closeness, and willingness to share

    Jason Wiese, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman

  • Understanding How Visual Representations of Location Feeds Affect End-User Privacy Concerns

    Karen P. Tang, Jason I. Hong, Daniel P. Siewiorek

  • Employing User Feedback for Semantic Location Services

    Donnie H. Kim, Kyungsik Han, Deborah Estrin


Session 6 - DIY and Design

Tuesday, September 20, 15:45-17:15

Chair: Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research

  • Nurturing natural sensors

    Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, James Pierce, Eric Paulos

  • Red Balloon, Green Balloon, Sensors in the Sky

    Stacey Kuznetsov, George Noel Davis, Eric Paulos, Mark Gross, Jian Chiu Cheung

  • Data Broadcasting using Mobile FM Radio: Design, Realization and Application

    Hang Yu, Ahmad Rahmati, Ardalan Amiri Sani, Lin Zhong, Jehan Wickramasuriya, Venu Vasudevan

  • Myngle: Unifying and Filtering Web Content For Unplanned Access Between Multiple Personal Devices

    Timothy Sohn, Frank Chun Yat Li, Agathe Battestini, Vidya Setlur, Koichi Mori, Hiroshi Horii

  • Mechanical Hijacking: How Robots Can Accelerate Ubicomp Deployments

    Scott Davidoff, Nicolas Villar, Alex S. Taylor, Shahram Izadi

  • Core functionality and new applications for tabletops and interactive surfaces

    Anthony Collins, Christopher James Ackad, Trent Apted, Paul Sztajer, PeterWard, Hanley Weng, Judy Kay


Session 7 - Home and Away

Wednesday, September 21, 8:30-10:00

Chair: Hao-hua Chu, Taiwan University

  • MAQS: A Personalized Mobile Sensing System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring

    Yifei Jiang, Kun Li, Lei Tian, Ricardo Piedrahita, Xiang Yun, Omkar Mansata, Qin Lv, Robert P. Dick, Michael Hannigan, Li Shang

  • PreHeat: Controlling Home Heating Using Occupancy Prediction

    James Scott, A.J. Bernheim Brush, John Krumm, Brian Meyers,Mike Hazas, Steve Hodges, Nicolas Villar

  • How Smart is Your Smartcard? Measuring Travel Behaviours, Perceptions, and Incentives

    Neal Lathia, Licia Capra

  • Mediated Tabletop Interaction in the Biology Lab -- Exploring the Design Space of The Rabbit

    Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Aurélien Tabard, Jakob E. Bardram

  • Hand Shape Classification with a Wrist Contour Sensor: Development of a Prototype Device

    Rui Fukui, MasahikoWatanabe, Masamichi Shimosaka, Tomomasa Sato,Tomoaki Gyota

  • IteMinder: Finding items in a room using passive RFID and an autonomous robot

    Mizuho Komatsuzaki, Koji Tsukada, Itiro Siio, Pertti Verronen, Mika Luimula,Sakari Pieskä

  • Qooqle: Search with Speech, Gesture, and Social Media

    Li Bian, Henry Holtzman


Session 8 - Energy and Networking

Wednesday, September 21, 10:30-12:00

Chair: Anthony LaMarca, Intel

  • Deliberation for Intuition: A Framework for Energy-Efficient Trip Detection on Cellular Phones

    Yifei Jiang, Du Li, Guang Yang, Qin Lv, Zhigang Liu

  • SiFi: Exploiting VoIP Silence for WiFi Energy Savings in Smart Phones

    Andrew J. Pyles, Zhen Ren, Gang Zhou, Xue Liu

  • LEAP: A Low Energy Assisted GPS for Trajectory-Based Services

    Heitor S. Ramos,Tao Zhang,Jie Liu, Nissanka B. Priyantha, Aman Kansal

  • An Empirical Approach to Smartphone Energy Level Prediction

    Earl Oliver, Srinivasan Keshav

  • Enabling Large-scale Human Activity Inference on Smartphones using Community Similarity Networks (CSN)

    Nicholas D. Lane, Ye Xu, Hong Lu, Shaohan Hu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Andrew T. Campbell, Feng Zhao


Session 9 - How Healthy?

Wednesday, September 21, 14:00-15:30

Chair: Julie Kientz, University of Washington

  • Sundroid: Solar Radiation Awareness with Smartphones

    Thomas Fahrni, Michael Kuhn, Philipp Sommer, Roger Wattenhofer, Samuel Welten

  • Accurate and Privacy Preserving Cough Sensing using a Low-Cost Microphone

    Eric C. Larson, TienJui Lee, Sean Liu, Margaret Rosenfeld, Shwetak N. Patel

  • Passive and In-situ Assessment of Mental and Physical Well-being using Mobile Sensors

    Mashf qui Rabbi, Shahid Ali, Tanzeem Choudhury, Ethan Berke

  • The Place for Ubiquitous Computing in Schools: Lessons Learned from a School-Based Intervention for Youth Physical Activity

    Erika Shehan Poole, Andrew D. Miller, Yan Xu, Elsa Eiriksdottir, Richard Catrambone,Elizabeth D. Mynatt

  • Understanding My Data, Myself: Supporting Self-Reflection with Ubicomp Technologies

    Ian Li, Anind K. Dey, Jodi Forlizzi


Session 10 - Measuring and Understanding

Wednesday, September 21, 16:00-17:30

Chair: Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University

  • Investigating Intelligibility for Uncertain Context-Aware Applications

    Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey

  • PANDAA: Physical Arrangement Detection of Networked Devices through Ambient-Sound Awareness

    Zheng Sun, Aveek Purohit, Kaifei Chen, Shijia Pan, Trevor Pering, Pei Zhang

  • Exploring Micro-Incentive Strategies for Participant Compensation in High-Burden Studies

    Mohamed Musthag, Andrew Raij, Deepak Ganesan, Santosh Kumar, Saul Shiffman

  • The Social fMRI: Measuring, Understanding and Designing Social Mechanisms in the Real World

    Nadav Aharony, Wei Pan, Cory Ip, Inas Khayal, Alex Pentland

  • Recognition of Visual Memory Recall Processes Using Eye Movement Analysis

    Andreas Bulling,Daniel Roggen


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