CHAI Seminar Schedule
2012
Here is the schedule for the Computer Human Adapted Interaction Research Group seminars.
They range from formal presentations of mature work by members of the group or visitors to less
formal reports of work-in-progress. The regular meeting time is 11:00am Wednesday in the School of IT Building Seminar Room 123.
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Weekly Seminars
Special Seminars
:: TBC
Speaker:
James Dalziel
:: TBC
Speaker:
Luke Hespanhol
:: CHI Trip report (part 2)
Speaker:
Andrew Clayphan and Chris Ackad
:: CHI Trip report (part 1)
Speaker:
Judy Kay and Bob Kummerfeld
:: How to support teachers with conceptual and technological tools
Speaker:
Yannis Dimitriadis
Description:
Technology-enhanced classrooms or distributed learning environments are becoming increasingly complex ecosystems, which may include VLEs, Web 2.0 tools, 3D worlds, or tangible artifacts, either digital or not.
In CSCL environments, multiple social planes are involved in multiple teaching and learning activities that may take place using multiple devices or tools. Orchestration of such collaborative ecosystems is challenging, since it may require creation and flexible deployment of learning designs or real-time class monitoring and management.
This seminar presents a view of conceptual and technological tools that may support teachers in orchestrating CSCL classes. Different aspects of orchestration will be discussed focusing on design and atomic enactment patterns, as mediating conceptual artifacts. On the other hand, various technology-based tools will be presented that enable the teachers perform the complete orchestration life cycle.
The presentation will draw on data from two years of field studies in a primary classroom, as well as professional development workshops and field studies with university teachers, where the conceptual and technological tools have been employed.
This seminar will be available live online at http://webconf.ucc.usyd.edu.au/seminar-room
Speaker Bio:
Yannis Dimitriadis is Professor of Telematics Engineering at the University of Valladolid, Spain. He is also coordinator of the GSIC/EMIC research group, since 1994, an inter-disciplinary team of more than 20 researchers from the fields of Telematics, Computer Science and Pedagogy.
Besides his technical background, his main research interest is the support of Technology-enhanced learning activities and especially in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, through both conceptual and technological tools. His main contributions concern the field of Learning Design or Scripting, through the proposal of the Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns, the Collage authoring tool and the Glue! architectural framework that covers important parts of the CSCL life cycle (design, deployment, enactment and evaluation). He has also contributed in Interaction Analysis, through a mixed evaluation approach and multiple field studies in real teaching and learning environments. Recently, he has been involved in the Classroom Orchestration field and its definition in conceptual terms, as well as in the extension of previous proposals in ubiquitous learning environments that include Web and Augmented Reality spaces.
Dr. Dimitriadis is currently spending a four-month sabbatical stay till the end of August at the CoCo laboratory of the University of Sydney, in collaboration with the CHAI and LATTE research groups.
:: TBC
Speaker:
Longbing Cao
:: The art of Keeping in Touch - Digitally communicating with elderly people that lack technical knowledge and experience.
Speaker:
Amnon Carmel
Description:
As the population in Australia and the developed world ages, and as more and more families are being geographically distributed through globalisation, many elderly people are left isolated socially and digitally from their friends and family, often in rural areas. Having no experience with computers and digital technology makes it almost impossible for them to join the digital revolution and are often left with the phone as their main means of communication.
Yet the development of the touch-screen interface along with the deployment of the NBN across Australia creates a unique opportunity to change that. In his talk, Amnon Carmel will explain about some of the challenges and opportunities, explore potential solution while focusing on an iPad app called 'Keep In Touch' that was developed in CHAI and aims to assist elderly to communicate with distant relatives. He will also provide some general guidelines for developing touch-based applications aimed for an older audience.
:: Chai Seminar: Ubiquitous Personalisation of Interactive Tabletops
Speaker:
Jeffrey Leung
Description:
Tabletop computers are being used in public venues to provide information to users interactively. Since tabletops are often used by multiple people, personalisation of information on tabletops has become an issue. Personalisation can be easily achieved on traditional desktop computers, since they are primarily used by a single person. However, this does not carry over naturally to tabletop computers. This project explores the concept of presenting personalised information on a tabletop computer, whereby a user's personal interests and preferences are stored in a user model. The user model is contained in a mobile application (e.g. a smart phone), which allows a user to send and receive information to and from the tabletop by placing their phone on the table. A specific application that will be explored is the personalisation of restaurant menus, which would focus on healthy eating. The work resulting from this project will contribute to the understanding of personalisation not only on tabletops, but also other large multi-user displays, such as interactive walls.
:: Personalisation and Cost-effective Delivery of Catch-up TV Services
Speaker:
Mengxi (Cynthia) Xu
Description:
Enhancing user experience in catch-up television content consumption has become an open research area recently. An intelligent personalised system can offer users a better these services. However, not much research about this area has been done.
The data from ABC iview has brought us a chance on how to provide accurate personalization and cost-effective delivery of catch-up TV services.
This talk will present the research methods, current outcomes and future work of this area.
:: Improving online dating match success with a hybrid content-collaborative reciprocal recommender
Speaker:
Ben Sand
Description:
Reciprocal recommenders are used to for two-way matching scenarios where each entity has preferences that need to be satisfied. When used in online dating, further constraints include all people receiving match recommendations and no person being overloaded as the target of too many recommendations.
There are two leading strategies for generating successful matches - content based and collaborative. Content based recommenders provide matches based on a user's profile and interactions, while collaborative recommenders analyse the successful interactions of similar users to identify matches. Both techniques have similar rates of success, yet make very different recommendations.
This talk will present the work done on the two recommenders and our proposed method for combining the strengths of both in a hybrid recommender.
:: Teaching programming in style
Speaker:
Peter Ward
Description:
The NCSS Challenge is an annual online programming competition which helps teach programming to Australian high school students. Last year, there were over 2,000 students enrolled in the challenge, making over 100,000 submissions in five weeks.
The Challenge system has a typical problem solving setup, where five questions are posed to students each week, and students have the week to submit answers to the questions. Each time a student submits, they are given instant feedback on the correctness of their solution. Each question has a number of test cases, and the student’s submission is run against each of these to provide a "did it pass?" result for each test case.
However, writing a good program is more than just having it working: computer programs also need to be readable to other people and easily modified and extended to do things not previously considered. In my talk, I will be discussing the ways in which this can apply to the Challenge system, to provide feedback to students and/or tutors which can help improve the design and style of students’ code.
:: Flexible grouping and filtering mechanisms for tabletop interfaces
Speaker:
Andrew Luong
Description:
Interactive tabletops are suitable for collaborative work, however, having multiple users interacting with a large collection of digital information introduces a new challenge with clutter. With multiple users constantly adding and moving objects on the tabletop, it quickly becomes impractical to fit all of the information on the screen at the same time.
Mechanisms for layouting information is still very primitive in current tabletop systems, with most systems requiring users to manually move and rotate objects on the tabletop to organise clutter. Existing methods to manage clutter on the desktop were designed for single user interaction, and do not transfer elegantly to the multi-user environment of the tabletop, as the management of clutter by one user could unintentionally affect other users of the tabletop.
This talk will present some of the related literature, and our proposed research method for solving this problem.
:: Creating embedded user models for personalization to support brainstorming at the tabletop.
Speaker:
Anthony Simonetta
Description:
Brainstorming, a technique of collaboration, aims to aid the generation and exploration of ideas or the expression of creative constructs. Brainstorming at the tabletop affords collaborators the ability to digitally capture their ideas and provides an ideal workflow that aims to produce high quality output. However, embedded user models for personalization at the tabletop offer further tools to facilitate the generation of ideas by providing contextual and user-specific help; supporting brainstorming. With the goal of offering an interface that contextually and personally supports a group of collaborators to effectively brainstorm, the Firestorm system will be extended to create, store, analyse and utilize embedded user models. The evaluation will focus on understanding whether leveraging embedded user models for personalisation will increase the quality of output from collaborators when brainstorming at the tabletop.
:: Teaching computer programming to the masses
Speaker:
James Curran
Description:
Learning to write computer programs for the first time is difficult. It involves the development of complex problem solving and logical reasoning skills that are only taught indirectly in the school and university environment, and a mindset that is new to most students. Unfortunately, the computer is a particularly unforgiving master, and even minor mistakes are met, at best, with mysterious error messages, and at worst, with unexplained program behaviour. This makes learning to program very frustrating.
The ideal solution is lots of expert support for beginner programmers, so that they don't get stuck for too long on any one mistake (but long enough to learn critical debugging skills) and so they start to think of test cases where their program won't work. This is exactly what we provide for a select group of 80 students in the National Computer Science School, a 10-day intensive residential camp run by the University of Sydney, every January. Unfortunately, this expert help is difficult to provide in large university courses with limited contact hours and in the school environment where teachers have limited programming expertise. We have developed the NCSS Challenge system to help overcome these problems.
The Challenge system is an e-learning system specifically designed for computer programming, with an integrated intelligent marking system that gives instantaneous feedback on the correctness of students' code. The Challenge system is currently used in three undergraduate courses (INFO1903, ENGG1801 and INFO2120/INFO2820) with over 1000 undergraduates in total. It also forms the basis of the National Computer Science School Challenge, and online programming competition for high school students across Australia, with over 2000 students, 170 teachers, in over 230 schools. Our goal is to reach over 5000 students in 2012. Since the system went live, it has auto-marked over 500,000 submissions.
Speaker Bio:
James is an Associate Professor and ARC Australian Research Fellow in the School of Information Technologies and the Discipline of Finance, and the Research Leader in Language Technology at the Capital Market CRC. Before that, he held an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and University of Sydney Bridging Fellowship. James received his PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh after a Bachelor of Science majoring in computer science at the University of Sydney. His area of research is computational linguistics, focusing on statistical approaches to syntactic and semantic natural language processing on tera-scale datasets.
James has been teaching with Dr Tara Murphy in the School of IT since 2006, when they developed a new unit of study "INFO1903: Informatics (Advanced)". They are both involved in a wide range of outreach activities, primarily the National Computer Science School, which they have run for over 10 years. In 2010, they won the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Award, and the Vice Chancellor's Teaching Award (for early career academics), and a ALTC Citation for an Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for their outstanding commitment to first year IT teaching, including the development of an innovative online learning system to enhance the student experience. NCSS and the NCSS Challenge has also been recognised with the Engineering Australia (Sydney Division) Excellence award (Education and Training) and the AIIA NSW and National iAwards (e-Learning) in 2010.
:: Experiments in computational association of visual designs
Speaker:
Kazjon Grace
Description:
This presentation describes the application of a computational model of association to the domain of ornamental designs. We define the process of association as that of constructing new relationships between different ideas, objects or situations. This process is a fundamental component of analogy-making, metaphor and complex similarity judgements. Association is a powerful, divergent, contextually-grounded and potentially creative process, for which capable general models would have applications in a variety of fields. Association-based systems could be useful in modelling language learning or the emergence of design styles, as well as a computational assistant in brainstorming tasks.
The model of association we have developed is based on the notion of interpretation-driven search, in which interactive parallel processes transform and search a space of possible mappings. This iterative reinterpretation enables our model to find mappings that would not have been possible using the original representations of the objects. We apply an implementation of this model to vector representations of ornamental designs in order to demonstrate its feasibility.
Speaker Bio:
Kaz Grace is a PhD graduand working as a Research Associate with the CHAI Group. His current work involves the development of interaction design heuristics for public space information displays. He completed his PhD in 2011 with the Design Lab of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.
:: Two selected topics in Internet Security
Speaker:
Bernhard Plattner
Description:
My talk will have three parts: First, I will give an overview of the research currently being done in my research group. In the second part, entitled “Dynamics of Insecurity”, I will present the results of an investigation of the statistical properties governing the lifecycle of software vulnerabilities. As we all know, software vulnerabilities are an important resource enabling organized crime in the Internet to pursue their business. It is therefore important to know more about the time relationships between discovery, disclosure, and the handling of patches related to security vulnerabilities. I will present the results of an analysis of some 30’000 vulnerabilities found in the commodity software we use every day. In the third part of my presentation I will focus on a technology enabling the privacy-preserving aggregation of privacy-sensitive or business-related data coming from different domains which do not trust each other. This technology leverages on secure multi-party computation (MPC), a concept that has been introduced more than 30 years ago with Shamir’s paper “How to share a secret”. While MPC received much attention in theoretical research, it eluded many attempts to put it to practice due to the resulting complexity of computation and data exchange. We think that we made an important step forward towards the practical use of MPC by exploiting the paradigm shift towards highly parallel processing, and by optimizing MPC protocols to fit today’s processor and networking landscape. One result of this work is the SEPIA library, available under the GNU LGPL licence from http:// http://www.sepia.ee.ethz.ch/.
I hope that this presentation will provide the scope for many discussions with researchers at the School of Information Technologies during my four weeks in Australia (until April 24, 2012).
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Bernhard Plattner is a Professor of Computer Engineering at ETH Zurich, where he leads the communication systems research group. He has a diploma in Electrical Engineering and a doctoral degree in Computer Science from ETH Zurich His research currently focuses on self-organizing and opportunistic networks, systems-oriented aspects of information security, and future Internet research. He is the author or co-author of several books and conference proceeding volumes and has published over 170 refereed papers in international journals or conferences.
Dr. Plattner was a long-term member of the board of directors of the SWITCH Foundation, and as its vice-president was instrumental in bringing the Internet to Swiss universities. He was Program Director of ETH World, a large strategic program to establish a virtual space for communication and cooperation independent of time and place. Dr. Plattner served as the Head of Faculty of Electrical Engineering and as a Vice-Rector for Bachelor/Master Studies at ETH Zurich.
Dr. Plattner is a member of the IEEE, ACM and the Internet Society. He served as the program or general chair of various international conferences, such as ACM SIGCOMM 91, INET ’94, PAM 2010 and ICCCN 2010. He has a honorary degree from the National University of Sevastopol, Ukraine, and is an adjunct professor of the Communication University of China, Beijing.
:: Differences in Language and Style Between Two Social Media Communities
Speaker:
Cecile Paris
Description:
Microblogs are increasingly used as communication channels for organisations and their related communities. In this work, we are interested in the effect of community on the resulting microblog language use. We analyse content from Twitter, examining tweets relating to two government organisations—one conducting scientific research, the other providing social services. We find that the two different communities have significant differences in style and language use, observing marked differences in formality and tone as measured by properties such as pronominal usage, orthographic convention, and use of Twitter features. We posit that these differences arise due to underlying differences in the communication goals of the two user groups. Tools working with Twitter, to extract and represent information, may therefore need different approaches in different domains.
Speaker Bio:
Dr Cécile Paris received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) in 1987 from Columbia University. She joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), a research laboratory in Marina del Rey (Los Angeles, Ca), where she stayed until 1996, working on computational linguistics for knowledge based systems. She then moved to the UK (ITRI, at the University of Brighton, UK), where she worked on multilingual generation systems. She joined CSIRO late 1996.
Her main research interests lie in the areas of Language Technology, User Modelling and Human-Computer Interaction. She is interested both in facilitating communication with information and in understanding how people communicate.
Dr Paris' thesis research represented the fist major work in user modelling and text generation, and her work on discourse planning for dialogue systems has been the basis for a number of other generation and multimodal presentation systems and research internationally.
Her current work is on contextualised information delivery, summarisation and social media analytics. Together with her team, she is exploring the use of social media technologies and issues related to CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work) to improve government services. The application domains for her work also include electronic business, knowledge management and e-Research.
:: Modelling of long-term intended learning in university curricula and the potential role of computer systems in improving the quality of university curriculum information
Speaker:
Tim Lever and Richard Gluga
Description:
Clearly identifying what students are expected to learn is a fundamental principle of good teaching but one that has been hard to satisfy consistently in university teaching programs. Efforts at developing more consistent and informative descriptions of program-level intended learning outcomes have intensified in recent years, in the Australian university sector as well as overseas, but without much appreciation so far of the particular complexity of the program level as opposed to that of smaller scale learning events. The session discusses work on program-level learning description models using the CUSP curriculum information management system (now used at three university faculties) and the recently developed ProGoSs program goal analysis software. The discussion illustrates some of the potential contributions of computer-based systems to more effective modelling of program-level learning outcomes while at the same providing a broad introduction to key issues and requirements involved.
Speaker Bio:
The presenters are joint developers of the CUSP curriculum information management system. Tim Lever has an educational background and is currently employed in curriculum support at the Faculty of Engineering and IT. Richard Gluga is currently working on PhD in "Infrastructures to overcome complexity of long term modelling of learning systems" in association with Judy Kay and the CHAI research group.
Slides
:: Improving matching algorithms with machine learning
Speaker:
Tiberio Caetano
Description:
Matching problems appear in many domains, such as object recognition, machine translation, employee-job allocation and online dating, to cite a few. There are hundreds of matching algorithms in the literature. In this talk I will show how to improve the performance of any matching algorithm using machine learning techniques.
Speaker Bio:
Tiberio Caetano is a senior researcher in the Machine Learning Research Group at ICTA. He is also an adjunct senior fellow at the Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University. As an undergraduate he studied Electrical Engineering with research in Theoretical Physics, and he obtained his PhD in Computer Science, with highest distinction, from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, in 2004. He has published scientific papers in several areas including machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, computational biology, complex networks and chaos theory. His current research is mainly focused on inventing novel machine learning techniques that can cope with the amount and diversity of data produced by modern technology.
Slides
:: Worm and Network Failure Detection and Remediation Strategies: Making Network more Resilient
Speaker:
Tina Yu
Description:
Worms are a potentially serious threat to networks, since they can infect and damage a large number of vulnerable hosts at timescales in which human reaction is unlikely to be effective. In this talk, I will present a novel, resilience strategy we developed for worm detection and remediation based on progressive, multi-stage deployment of resilience mechanisms. Our strategy monitors various traffic features to detect the early onset of an attack, and then applies further mechanisms to progressively identify the attack and apply remediation to protect the network. Our strategy can be adapted to detect known worms, worms with varying propagation speed and also to provide some level of remediation for new, unknown attacks.
Fault management is one of the major components of the network management suite. So this talk also introduces our innovative concepts for fault detection, root cause analysis and self-healing architectures. We hope the system could implement root-cause analysis to detect the faults once they occur, also to identify the source for performing automatic fault recovery. Different types of network service faults will be considered: they range from node misbehaviour at different network layers, to software misconfigurations.
The approach we propose has the flexibility and extensibility needed to assist in the identification and remediation of various network challenges, which include unintentional misconfiguration; malicious attacks; environmental challenges; unusual but legitimate traffic loads and provider failures.
:: Modelling Goals in Personal Lifelong Informatics
Speaker:
Debjanee Barua
Description:
Goals and goal-setting play an important role in personal informatics because they link the data within personal informatics systems to core problems in people's lives. This talk presents a framework for personal informatics based on a user model representing user goals based on a domain specific ontology for setting lifelong well-being goals, and a generic ontology of attributes associated with goals based on goal-setting theory. User control is the key to this framework as it enable users to set meaningful goals in relation to their individual abilities and create application models that link information stored in personal digital devices to a particular goal. We envisage that this novel approach will facilitate lifelong personal goal management for individual user.
:: Vacation Scholarship Industry Presentations
Speaker:
Vacation Scholars of 2011/2012
:: ITS2011 - Trip Report
Speaker:
Andrew Clayphan, Roberto Martinez and Christopher Ackad
Description:
Andrew, Roberto and Christopher will present a trip report for ITS 2011, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, which was held late last year in Kobe, Japan.
:: But can the Holodeck do a good Shiraz?
Speaker:
Jeremy Cooperstock
Description:
The Star Trek Holodeck experience was pitched as the ultimate in VR environments, perhaps embodying the dream of true telepresence, in which users receive the full sensory experience of being in another location. However, most so-called "telepresence" systems today offer little more than high-resolution displays, as if all one needs to achieve the illusion is Skype on a big screen. Despite the hype, such systems generally fail to deliver a convincing level of co-presence between users and come nowhere close to providing the sensory fidelity or supporting the expressive cues and manipulation capabilities we take for granted with objects in the physical world.
My lab's objectives in this domain are to simulate a high-fidelity representation of remote or synthetic environments, conveying the sights, sounds, and sense of touch in a highly convincing manner, allowing users, for example, to collaborate with each other as if physically sharing the same space. Achieving this goal presents challenges along the entire signal path, including sensory acquisition, signal processing, data transmission, display technologies, and an understanding of the role of multimodality in perception. This talk surveys some of our research in these areas and demonstrates several applications arising from this work, including support of environmental awareness for the blind community, remote medical training, multimodal synthesis of ground surfaces, and low-latency cross-continental distributed jazz jams. Nevertheless, simulating reality is a far cry from achieving it, and I doubt that even in the future of real Holodecks, a VR wine tasting would compete effectively with the real thing.
Speaker Bio:
Jeremy Cooperstock (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996) is an associate professor in the department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, a member of the Centre for Intelligent Machines, and a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology at McGill University. He directs the Shared Reality Lab, which focuses on computer mediation to facilitate high-fidelity human communication and the synthesis of perceptually engaging, multimodal, immersive environments, and also leads the theme of Enabling Technologies for a new Networks of Centres of Excellence on Graphics, Animation, and New Media (GRAND). Cooperstock's accomplishments include the Intelligent Classroom, the world's first Internet streaming demonstrations of Dolby Digital 5.1, uncompressed 12-channel 96kHz/24bit, multichannel DSD audio, and multiple simultaneous streams of uncompressed high-definition video, and a simulation environment that renders graphic, audio, and vibrotactile effects in response to footsteps. His work on the Ultra-Videoconferencing system was recognized by an award for Most Innovative Use of New Technology from ACM/IEEE Supercomputing and a Distinction Award from the Audio Engineering Society. Cooperstock has worked with IBM at the Haifa Research Center, Israel, and the T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan, and was a visiting professor at Bang & Olufsen, Denmark, where he conducted research on telepresence technologies as part of the World Opera Project. He chaired the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee on Network Audio Systems from 2001 to 2009 and is currently an associate editor of the Journal of the AES.
:: Systems for Creativity & Play
Speaker:
Karl D.D. Willis
Description:
Creativity and play are crucial elements of the human experience. My research explores the close relationship between creativity and play by developing software/hardware systems that promote and provoke playful experiences, everyday creativity, and new forms of social interaction. In this talk I discuss systems that I have developed around the topics of drawing, fabrication, and projection. These include tangible and mobile systems for social drawing, new interfaces for the era of digital fabrication, and novel gaming systems using mobile projectors.
Speaker Bio:
Karl D.D. Willis is a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University and a lab associate at Disney Research Pittsburgh. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the UNESCO Universal Forum of Cultures in Mexico, the Science Gallery in Ireland, and the Sony ExploraScience Center in Japan. The results of his research has been presented internationally at venues such as ACM CHI, ACM UIST, and ACM TEI, and have regularly featured in popular media including New Scientist, Wired, and the BBC. He has won numerous awards including both ‘Best Paper’ and 'Best Demo' at ACM UIST 2011 and the prestigious Tokyo Type Director’s Club Interactive Design prize.
:: Similarity-based Recommender for Online Dating
Speaker:
JingMin Huang
:: Recommendations in Social Media
Speaker:
Chong Gao
:: Job Recommendations on Smart Phones
Speaker:
Alexander Batten
:: Extending the Reach of Neighbourhood Services
Speaker:
Haoqi Bai
:: A Field Study of the Neighbourhood Networks Platform
Speaker:
Hai He
:: Using an overhead depth sensor for distinguishing between users at a tabletop
Speaker:
David Ye
:: Personalised recommendations for a healthier lifestyle
Speaker:
Joel Estephan
:: Improving the usability of touch-based tabletops
Speaker:
Andrew Luong
:: Attracting new users and sustaining engagement at interactive wall displays
Speaker:
Oliver Dawson
:: Interaction mechanisms for navigating hierarchical content at wall displays
Speaker:
Luke Hespanhol
:: The Future Mobile Phone
Speaker:
Max Mühlhäuser
Description:
A 1995 mobile phone and a 2010 Smartphones have little in common. Will the 2025 mobile phone be again very different? While predicting the future is always dangerous and likely to fail, one may look at major technology trends and options, and at crucial social and political issues that may determine the look and feel of future mobile phones. The talk will discuss these trends and issues and “drill down” to some of the relevant research activities. Three technology areas will be investigated in this respect:
• Interaction – this part sheds light on the potentials of future displays (emphasized) and speech technology, and on multi-device interaction and proactive UIs
• protection beyond classical IT security– with an emphasis on privacy and trust modeling
• communication – where minimal delay may become a more important issue than available bitrate in a ‘clouded’ world – with consequences on higher layers
Speaker Bio:
Max Mühlhäuser is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He received his Doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe and founded a research center for Digital Equipment (DEC). Since 1989, he worked as either professor or visiting professor at universities in Germany, Austria, France, Canada, and the US. Max published more than 300 articles, co-authored and edited books about ubiquitous computing, E-learning, and distributed & multimedia software engineering. He heads the Telecooperation Lab and the Departmental Computing Services within the Informatics Department, a graduate school in eLearning, and one of three departments in the large new Darmstadt research center for IT security named CASED.
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