6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) 2006

In Conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2006) in Lisbon, Portugal
July 4 , 2006

Advance Program

Note that times may change to align the program with the schedule of ICDCS

Time
Presentation
8:45
Introduction
Workshop Organizers

Session 1: Prototyping & Context Recognition
9:00
Restriction, Modification and Extension of Consumer Devices for Prototyping Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Matthias Kranz and Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
9:30
Dealing with Class Skew in Context Recognition
Mathias Stäger and Gerhard Troester, ETH Zurich
Paul Lukowicz, UMIT Hall, Austria
10:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Architectures
10:30
Aware Office: Integrating Modular Context-Aware Applications
Tobias Zimmer, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany
11:00
Architecture for Providing Services in the Ubiquitous Computing Environment
Goro Kunito, Kenji Sakamoto, Naoharu Yamada and Tatsuo Takakashi, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
11:30
Sharing Sensor Networks
Manabu Isomura and Hiroki Horiuchi, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
Till Riedel, Christian Decker, TecO, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michael Beigl, University of Braunschweig, Germany
12:00 Lunch break

Session 3: Novel User Interfaces
13:30
The Key Knob
Alois Ferscha and Clemens Holzmann, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
14:00
Developing Gestural Input
Matthias Kranz, Stefan Freud, Paul Holleis and Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
Holger Arndt, Uinversity of Technology, Munich, Germany
14:30
Thracker - Using Capacitive Sensing for Gesture Recognition
Raphael Wimmer, Albrecht Schmidt, Paul Holleis and Matthias Kranz, University of Munich Germany
15:00 Coffee Break

Session 4: Wearable Computing
15:15
Flexible Network Infrastructure for Wearable Computing Using Conductive Fabric and Its Evaluation
Junichi Akita, Toru Shinmura, Tomomichi Murakami and Mariko Yao, Kanazawa University, Japan
15:45
Fair Dice: A Tilt and Motion-Aware Cube with a Conscience
Kristof Van Laerhoven and Hans-Werner Gellersen, Lancaster University, UK
16:15
Wearable Computer for Ubiquitous Informal Communication
Shun'ichi Tano, Tatsuhiro Takayama, Mitsuru Iwata and Tomonori Hashiyama
16:45
Coffe Break

Session 5: Posters
17:00
objSampler: A Tool for Recording and Recalling Encounters with Real World Objects
Jun'ichi Yura, Hideaki Ogawa, Taizo Zushi, Jin Kazawa and Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan
17:15
Applying Case-Based Reasoning in Networked Appliances: Enabling Ubiquitous Environment
Halikul Bin Lenando, Mohamad Nazom Jambli and Johari Abdullah, University of Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia
17:30
Internet Emergency Call System Enhancing Reliability
Kenji Kimotsuki, Sakae Sugi, Takumi Miyoshi, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Teijirou Kajiwara, Takehiro Mabuchi, Masanori Murata, Sohgo Security Services Co., Ltd., Japan
17:45
Desiring Technologies: Case Studies in the Coming of Being of Wearable Technologies
Despina Papadopoulos, Studio 505, USA
18:00
Mo@i: A Public Service Platform Enabling Multiple-zones Serviceability
Masayuki Iwai, Akinori Komaki and Hideyuki Tokuda, Keio University, Japan
18:15
Wrap up

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