Technical Program

    Printable program is available here.

    Note: Wireless LAN is available in the conference hall.
    MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8

    Registration starts at 9:15.

    9:45 - 10:00 Opening

    10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk 1
    Chair: Hideyuki Nakashima, Future University - Hakodate, Japan

  • "The Pervasive Sensor: Devices and Algorithms",
    Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, UK.


    • 11:30 - 13:00 Location-aware Computing
    Chair: Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

  • (L)"Design, Implementation and Evaluations of a Direction Based Service System for both Indoor and Outdoor",
    Yohei Iwasaki, Nobuo Kawaguchi and Yasuyoshi Inagaki, Nagoya University, Japan.

  • (S)"An Architecture for Location Dependent Web Based Applications on Mobile Environments",
    Simon Neira and Victor M. Gulias, University of Corunna, Spain.

  • (S)"Position Tracking using Infra-red Signals for Museum Guiding System",
    Atsushi Hiyama, Jun Yamashita, Koichi Hirota, Hideaki Kuzuoka and Michitaka Hirose, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

  • (S)"Navigation with an Adaptive Mobile Map-Application: How Users Experience Gesture- and Context-Sensitiveness?",
    Leena Arhippainen, Tapani Rantakokko and Marika Tahti, University of Oulu, Finland.


    • 14:30 - 15:50 Real-World Interaction
    Chair: Mark Chignel, University of Toronto, Canada

  • (S)"Real-World Interaction with Camera-Phones",
    Michael Rohs, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland.

  • (S)"Experience-sharing System using Ubiquitous Sensing Environments",
    Megumu Tsuchikawa, Shoichiro Iwasawa, Sadanori Ito, Atsushi Nakahara, Yasuyuki Sumi, Kenji Mase, Kiyoshi Kogure and Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan.

  • (S)"Augmented Classroom: A Paper-Centric Approach for Collaborative Learning System",
    Motoki Miura, Susumu Kunifuji, Buntarou Shizuki and Jiro Tanaka, JAIST, Japan.

  • (S)"EnhancedTable: An Augmented Table System for Supporting Face-to-Face Meeting in Ubiquitous Environment",
    Hideki Koike, Shin'ichiro Nagashima, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Yasuto Nakanishi, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, and Yoichi Sato,Univ. of Tokyo , Japan.


    • 16:00 - 17:00 demonstrations/posters
    Demos/Posters program
    Food and drink are provided.

    17:20 - 19:00 Reception (Sponsored by Crossbow)

    TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

    Registration starts at 9:00.

    9:30 - 10:30 Invited Talk 2
    Chair: Michiaki Yasumura, Keio University, Japan

  • "From Everyday Objects to Everyday Memories: Cognitive Science at Home",
    Hisao Nojima, NTT, Japan


    • 11:00 - 12:00 Systems
    Chair: Jun Rekimoto, Sony CSL, Japan

  • (S)"Agents that Coordinate Web Services in Ubiquitous Computing",
    Akio Sashima, Noriaki Izumi and Koichi Kurumatani, AIST, Japan.

  • (S)"A Secure Extension for Realizing Multi-Institutional Ubiquitous Service System",
    Yu Enokibori and Nobuhiko Nishio, Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

  • (S)"Middleware Support for Various Input/Output Devices for Networked Audio and Visual Home Appliances",
    Tatsuo Nakajima, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, and Eiji Tokunaga, Waseda University, Japan.


    • 13:30 - 15:00 Context awareness
    Chair: Marc Langheinrich, ETH, Switzerland

  • (L)"Bazaar: A Conceptual Framework for Physical Space Applications",
    Kaori Fujinami , Tetsuo Yamabe, and Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan.

  • (S)"Towards A General Approach for Reasoning about Context, Situations and Uncertainty in Ubiquitous Sensing: Putting Geometrical Intuitions to Work",
    Amir Padovitz, Seng Wai Loke, Arkady Zaslavsky and Bernard Burg, Monash University, Australia.

  • (S)"A unified Application Service Model for ubiHome by Exploiting Intelligent Context-Awareness",
    Yoosoo Oh and Woontack Woo, GIST, Korea.

  • (S)"A Behavior-based Personal Controller for Autonomous Ubiquitous Computing",
    Takamitsu Mizutori, Yuta Nakayama and Kenji Kohiyama, Keio University, Japan.


    • 15:30 - 17:20 Sensors and Tags
    Chair: Toshiyuki Masui, AIST, Japan

  • (L)"Scanning with a Purpose -- Supporting the Fair Information Principles in RFID protocols",
    Christian Floerkemeier, Roland Schneider and Marc Langheinrich, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

  • (L)"A Comprehensive Integration and Application Platform for Large-Scale Sensor Networks",
    Thomas Odenwald, Joachim Schaper and Asuman Suenbuel, SAP Research Labs, LLC, USA.

  • (L)"Inexpensive and Automatic Calibration for Acceleration Sensors",
    Albert Krohn, Michael Beigl, Christian Decker, Uwe Kochendorfer and Tobias Zimmer, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany.

  • (S)"Dependable Coding of Fiducial Tags",
    Andrew C. Rice, Christopher B. Cain and John K. Fawcett, University of Cambridge, UK