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.

Paul Holleis, NTT DoCoMo Euro Labs

Paul Holleis is currently finalising his Ph.D. having until recently worked as full time research assistant at the Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering group, University of Duisburg-Essen. Since October 2008, he works as researcher in the Smart and Secure Services research group at DOCOMO Euro Labs in Munich. Before, he worked with his Ph.D. supervisor Prof. Albrecht Schmidt at the University of Bonn and the University of Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) as a member of the research group "Embedded Interaction". His research focus is on programming paradigms for ubiquitous computing infrastructure, pervasive computing development support and integration of usability metrics and user models in the design process of novel user interfaces and applications.

In January 2004, he received his diploma in computer science from the University of Passau, Germany concentrating on graph drawing and visual, end-user programming.

Michael May, Fraunhofer IAIS

Michael May is head of the Knowledge Discovery Department at Fraunhofer IAIS. His main research interest is spatio-temporal data mining from mobile data. He coordinated the EU-funded research networks KDubiq (Knowledge Discovery in Ubiquitous Environments) and KDNet (Knowledge Discovery Network of Excellence), and was local chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2005. Dr. May has been principal investigator in several industry funded projects on spatial learning for customer profiling and churn prediction.  A project for predicting mobility behavior of German people based on GPS tracks, where he was responsible for the modeling component, received the “Best Study Award 2008”  by the German Association for Market Research. He has studied philosphy of science and computer science and received his PhD from the graduate program in Cognitive Science, Univ. Hamburg, in 1997, where he was working on machine learning of causal relationships.