Organizers

Jörg Müller, University of Münster

Jörg Müller is a postdoc in the group of Antonio Krüger at the University of Münster, Germany. His research interests are context adaptive digital signage and advertising in pervasive computing. In particular, he is interested how audience measurement (e.g. via cameras) can be used to implement self-optimizing advertising schedules on digital signage (similar to Google AdWords on the Web). In this context, he deployed the iDisplays (with Münster University) and MobiDiC (with German Telekom) digital signage networks. Jörg studied computer science at the universities of Freiburg and Saarbrücken and worked on user interfaces for hand-held projectors (with Sony), driver workload estimation (with Daimler), and Mind Mapping (FreeMind).

Albrecht Schmidt, University of Duisburg-Essen

Albrecht Schmidt is a professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Previously he was head of department at the Fraunhofer institute for intelligent information and analysis systems. From 2003 to 2006 he headed the embedded interaction research group at the University of Munich. Albrecht studied in Ulm, Karlsruhe and Lancaster, where he completed his PhD on the topic “ubiquitous computing – computing in context”. His teaching and research interests are in media informatics and ubiquitous computing, and in particular in the area of user interface engineering. Albrecht enjoys creating new interaction techniques and interfaces technologies for specific environments such as the home or the car. Over recent years he organized several workshops and conferences and served in various committees in pervasive computing community.

Aaron Quigley, University College Dublin

Dr. Aaron Quigley is a College Lecturer in the School of Computer Science & Informatics in the Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, University College Dublin. In addition he is a Co-Principal Investigator for the SFI Strategic Research Cluster Clique on Graph and Network Analysis, an IBM CAS Visiting Scientist, UCD director of ODCSSS, coordinator for the EU FP7 support action CAPSIL, a researcher in Lero the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre and a collaborator in CLARITY the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. Since the start of 2009 he has been the UCD PI for the Dviz project, which is a collaborative digital technology research project between Twelve Horses, IADT and UCD and is funded by the NDRC. Aaron is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Aaron's research interests include pervasive computing, software engineering, information visualisation, human computer interaction, graph drawing, location and context awareness, peer-to-peer computing, surface interaction and network analysis. In 2009 he is the program co-chair for the 4th International Symposium on Location- and Context-Awareness (LoCA 2009) in Tokyo Japan, the conference co-chair for I-HCI 2009 the third conference of the Irish HCI Community and the tutorials co-chair for the IEEE Tabletop and Interactive Surfaces 2009. In addition he is editing a special issue of a journal on coupled displays and serving on the program committees for several leading international conferences. In 2010 he is the workshop co-chair for Pervasive 2010 in Finland.

Aaron has published over 80 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers along with 3 patents. His current team consists of 13 including; 8 postgraduate students, 3 postdocs and 2 final year students. He has graduated 1 PhD, 1 MSc, 6 Minor MSc students and over 15 honours students. His current research projects are funded by the SFI, NDRC, IRCSET, IBM, Microsoft and the EU (FP7).

Bo Begole, Palo Alto Research Center

Bo Begoleis a Principal Scientist and Manager of the Ubiquitous Computing Area at the Palo Alto Research Center. He is an applied computer science researcher who aims to create novel systems and capabilities for end-user applications. His past work includes systems that provide synchronous collaboration of single-user applications, computer-mediated communication, distributed interpersonal awareness, sensor-based interruptibility detection, presence modeling and prediction, media device interoperability and control, and context-aware mobile systems. He is a co-Chair of the 2008 conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2008). Bo received a B.S. in 1992 in Mathematics from Virginia Commonwealth University, an M.S. in 1994 and a Ph.D. in 1998 in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Prior to his studies, Bo served in the US Army as an Arabic language translator specializing in Egyptian, Libyan and Iraqi dialects.