Programme at a glance

Monday 17 May 2010, 8:30-21:00: Workshops. Doctoral Colloquium in the main building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34.
Joint keynote and evening reception with UbiSummit 2010 at the Stock Exchange, Fabianinkatu 14.
Tuesday 18 May 2010, 8:00-20:00: Keynote. Technical programme. Plaza madness (posters, demonstrations, videos). Pervasive Plaza (posters, demonstrations and videos) together with a Reception held by the University in the main building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34
Wednesday 19 May 2010, 8:30-23:00: Technical programme. Workshop and doctoral colloquium madness in the main building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34. Boat excursion starting from the Market Square, banquet at Palace, Eteläranta 10, with paper, demo and poster award ceremony
Thursday 20 May 2010, 8:30-18:00: Technical programme (half day), town-hall meeting, presentation and video award ceremony, closing, tutorials (half day), all in the main building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34

Programme in detail (pdf version)

Monday 17 May 2010
	Breakfast in hotel
8:30	Registration opens, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34
9:00-16:30	Workshops and Doctoral Colloquium including one coffee break at about 10:00, lunch at about 12:00, and one coffee break at about 14:30, in the Auditoriums and Rooms in the main building of the University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34 Doctoral Colloquium, Room 16 W1: Designing for Crowds, Auditorium XVII W2: Energy Awareness and Conservation through Pervasive Applications, Auditorium XI W3: How to do good activity recognition research? Experimental methodologies, evaluation metrics, and reproducibility issues, Room 7 W4: Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation, Room 8 W5: Pervasive Advertising and Shopping, Auditorium IV W6: Pervasive Personalization, Auditorium X W7: Programming Methods for Mobile and Pervasive Systems (PMMPS), Room 4 W8: Security and Privacy in Spontaneous Interaction and Mobile Phone Use, Auditorium IX W9: Ubicomp in the Large: Collaborative Sensing and Collective Phenomena, Auditorium VI W10: UBIPROJECTION 2010 - Workshop on Personal Projection, Room 14 W11: Ubiquitous Virtual Reality, Auditorium XVIII W12: What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen (CIoT), Auditorium III
17:00-18:00	Keynote: Towards a Ubiquitous Network Society: Challenges in Creating Smart Spaces Everywhere, Professor Hideyuki Tokuda, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, joint keynote with UbiSummit 2010 at the Stock Exchange, Fabianinkatu 14.
18:00-20:00	Joint reception with UbiSummit 2010 at the Stock Exchange, Fabianinkatu 14.

Tuesday 18 May 2010
	Breakfast in hotel
8:30	Registration opens, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34
8:40-9:00	Opening of the Conference, Festival Hall
	Opening Fanfare: Chopin: Polonaise Op. 40 No. 1, A major, "Militaire", Marko Ikonen
	Pervasive 2010 General Chair, Director Patrik Floréen, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT; Programme Co-Chairs Antonio Krüger, German Research Center for AI and Mirjana Spasojevic, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA
9:00-10:00	Keynote: Pervasive technology that changed the world, Dr. Henry Tirri, Senior Vice President, Head of Nokia Research Center, Festival Hall
10:00-10:30	Coffee break, Foyers outside Festival Hall
10:30-12:05	Session 1: Positioning, Festival Hall, Chair: Alex Varshavsky Paper: Virtual Compass: relative positioning to sense mobile social interactions Nilanjan Banerjee, Sharad Agarwal, Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Mark Corner Paper: The geography of taste: analyzing cell-phone mobility in social events Francesco Calabrese, Francisco C. Pereira, Giusy Di Lorenzo, Liang Liu, Carlo Ratti Paper: Indoor Positioning using GPS Revisited Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Henrik Blunck, Torben Godsk, Thomas Toftkjær, Dan Lund Christensen, Kaj Grønbæk Video: Pervasive Technologies in Airplane Seats: Towards Safer and Stress-Free Air Travel Cornelia Setz, Johannes Schumm, Dominique Favre, Christian Liesen, Bert Arnrich, Daniel Roggen, and Gerhard Tröster (6'17")
12:05-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:05	Session 2: Navigation and Tracking, Festival Hall, Chair: Khai Truong Paper: Specification and Verification of Complex Location Events with Panoramic Evan Welbourne, Magdalena Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, James Fogarty Paper: Tactile Wayfinder: Comparison of Tactile Waypoint Navigation with Commercial Pedestrian Navigation Systems Martin Pielot, Susanne Boll Video: Scratch: Video Documentation of Translocational Radio Drama Nye Parry, Helen Bendon, Stephen Boyd Davis, Magnus Moar (7'03")
14:05-14:10	Break
14:10-15:35	Session 3: Applications, Festival Hall, Chair: Shin'ichi Konomi Video: PrintTicket: Simplifying Mobile Printing With Optical Codes Kurt Partridge, Hua Liu, Alan Walendowski, Bo Begole (1'43") Paper: Jog Falls: A Pervasive Healthcare Platform for Diabetes Management Lama Nachman, Amit Baxi, Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Vivek Darera, Piyush Deshpande, Nagaraju N Kodalapura, Vincent Mageshkumar, Satish Rath, Junaith Shahabdeen, Raviraja Acharya Paper: EyeCatcher: a digital camera for capturing a variety of natural looking facial expressions in daily snapshots Koji Tsukada, Maho Oki Paper: TreasurePhone: Context-Sensitive User Data Protection on Mobile Phones Julian Seifert, Alexander De Luca, Bettina Conradi, Heinrich Hussmann Video: Collecting Faces - Augmented Reality Playful Application for Mobile Phones Jussi Holopainen and Elina Ollila (2'43")
15:35-16:00	Coffee break, Foyers
16:00-16:45	One minute Plaza madness (posters, demonstrations and videos), Festival Hall, Chairs: Poster, demo and video chairs
16:45-17:00	Break
17:00-17:05	Greeting by the University of Helsinki, speech by Vice Rector Johanna Björkroth, main building of the University, 2nd floor, Reception rooms
17:05-19:00	Reception held by the University of Helsinki, Vice Rector Johanna Björkroth, main building of the University, 2nd floor
17:30-19:30	Pervasive Plaza (posters, demonstrations, videos), University main building, 2nd floor

Wednesday 19 May 2010
	Breakfast in hotel
8:30	Registration opens, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34
8:30-10:05	Session 4: Tools, modelling, Festival Hall, Chair: Judy Kay Video: Walk-through of the OPPORTUNITY dataset for activity recognition in sensor rich environments Daniel Roggen, Alberto Calatroni, Mirco Rossi, Thomas Holleczek, Kilian Förster, Gerhard Tröster, Paul Lukowicz, David Bannach, Gerald Pirkl, Florian Wagner, Alois Ferscha, Jakob Doppler, Clemens Holzmann, Marc Kurz, Gerald Holl, Ricardo Chavarriaga, Marco Creatura, Hesam Sagha, Hamidreza Bayati, José del R. Millan (5'54") Paper: Recruitment Framework for Participatory Sensing Data Collections Sasank Reddy, Deborah Estrin, Mani Srivastava Paper: Out of the Lab and into the Fray: Towards Modeling Emotion in Everyday Life Jennifer Healey, Lama Nachman, Sushmita Subramanian, Junaith Shahabdeen, Margaret Morris Paper: The secret life of machines - boundary objects in maintenance, repair and overhaul Matthias Betz
10:05-10:30	Coffee break, foyers
10:30-12:05	Session 5: Studies, Festival Hall, Chair: Anind Dey Paper: Automatic Assessment of Cognitive Impairment Through Electronic Observation of Object Usage Mark R Hodges, Ned Kirsch, Mark W. Newman, Martha E. Pollack Paper: Further into the Wild: Running Worldwide Trials of Mobile Systems Donald McMillan, Alistair Morrison, Owain Brown, Matthew Chalmers Paper: Studying the Use and Utility of an Indoor Location Tracking System for Non-Experts Shwetak N. Patel, Julie A. Kientz, Sidhant Gupta Video: The Formamat: Investigating the Dispensability of Pervasive Data Zane Kripe, Hanna Schraffenberger, Arnout Terpstra (4'26")
12:05-13:00	Lunch
13:00-14:35	Session 6: Activity Recognition, Festival Hall, Chair: Patrick Olivier Paper: Object-based Activity Recognition with Heterogeneous Sensors on Wrist Takuya Maekawa, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Yasue Kishino, Katsuhiko Ishiguro, Koji Kamei, Yasushi Sakurai, Takeshi Okadome Paper: GasSense: Appliance-Level, Single-Point Sensing of Gas Activity in the Home Gabe Cohn, Sidhant Gupta, Jon E Froehlich, Eric Larson, Shwetak N. Patel Paper: Transferring Knowledge of Activity Recognition across Sensor Networks Tim Van Kasteren, Gwenn Englebienne, Ben Kröse Video: Aided Eyes: Eye Activity Sensing for Daily Life Yoshio Ishiguro, Adiyan Mujibiya, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto (4'23")
14:35-15:00	Coffee break, foyers
15:00-15:30	Workshop and doctoral colloquium madness, Festival Hall, Chairs: workshop and doctoral colloquium chairs
15:30-17:10	Session 7: Sensing, Festival Hall, Chair: James Scott Video: The E-Sense Project: Investigating the Extended Mind by Building Sensory Augmentation Devices Jon Bird, Yvonne Rogers, Janet van der Linden, and Simon Holland (7'12") Paper: Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users Wesley Willett, Paul M. Aoki, Neil Kumar, Sushmita Subramanian, Allison Woodruff Paper: Active Capacitive Sensing: Exploring a New Wearble Sensing Modality for Activity Recogntion Jingyuan Cheng, Oliver Amft, Paul Lukowicz Paper: Using Height Sensors for Biometric Identification in Multi-resident Homes Vijay Srinivasan, John Stankovic, Kamin Whitehouse Video: Cat@Log: Cat Wearable Sensing for Supporting Human-Animal Interaction Kyoko Yonezawa, Masaru Naruoka, Takashi Miyaki, and Jun Rekimoto (4'54")
17:30-	Excursion and banquet 17:30-19:30 Boating in the archipelago, start at starting from the Market Square 20:00-23:30 Banquet at Palace, Eteläranta 10, starting at about 20:00. Best paper, best demo, and best poster awards

Thursday 20 May 2010
	Breakfast in hotel
8:30	Registration opens, University of Helsinki, Unioninkatu 34
9:00-10:05	Session 8: Resource Awareness, Festival Hall, Chair: Shwetak Patel Paper: Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones Mirco Musolesi; Mattia Piraccini; Kristóf Fodor; Antonio Corradi; Andrew T. Campbell Paper: Efficient Resource-Aware Hybrid Configuration of Distributed Pervasive Applications Stephan Schuhmann; Klaus Herrmann; Kurt Rothermel Video: Motion sensitive clothing Holger Harms, Oliver Amft, Dominique Favre, Christian Liesen, Daniel Roggen, and Gerhard Tröster (5'29")
10:05-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:05	Session 9: Interaction, Festival Hall, Chair: A.J. Brush Video: Touching the Untouchables: Vision-based Real-time Interaction with Public Displays through Mobile Touchscreen Devices Matthias Baldauf, Peter Fröhlich, Peter Reichl (4'26") Paper: 12Pixels: Exploring Social Drawing on Mobile Phones Karl D.D. Willis; Ivan Poupyrev Paper: No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-Touch Text Entry Matthew Bonner; Jeremy Brudvik; Gregory D Abowd; Keith W. Edwards Paper: On the use of brain decoded signals for online user adaptive gesture recognition systems Kilian Förster; Andrea Biasiucci; Ricardo Chavarriaga; José del R. Millán; Daniel Roggen; Gerhard Tröster Video: SmartDice: Organizing smart objects networks through mobile phones and the Titan framework Clemens Lombriser, Mirco Rossi, Dominique Favre, Christian Liesen, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster (4'36")
12:05-13:00	Lunch
13:00-13:25	Town Hall Meeting, Festival Hall, Chair: Aaron Quigley Best presentation and best video awards Pervasive 2011
13:25-13:30	Closing of the Conference, Festival Hall
	Closing Fanfare: Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66, C-sharp minor, Marko Ikonen
13:30-14:30	T1: AJ Brush: Pervasive Computing User Studies, Festival Hall
14:30-15:30	T2: Shwetak Patel: Location in Pervasive Computing, Festival Hall
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:00	T3: John Krumm: Processing Sequential Sensor Data, Festival Hall
17:00-18:00	T4: Adrian Friday: Systems Support for Ubiquitous Computing, Festival Hall

Programme index

- Awards
- Demos
- Doctoral colloquium
- Excursion and banquet
- Keynote: Henry Tirri
- Keynote: Hideuyki Tokuda
- Lunches
- Posters
- Proceedings
- Tutorials
- Videos
- Workshops

Platinum sponsors

OSKE's Ubiquitous Computing Cluster Programme

Gold sponsors

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Proceedings published by

Pervasive Computing 8th International Conference, Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, Finland, May 17-20, 2010. Volume 6030. Springer, 2010.