Workshop on Smart Object Systems

In Conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005) in Tokyo, Japan
September 11, 2005
Time
Presentation
8:30
Introduction, Goals, Agenda
Workshop Organizers
Session 1: Development and Simulation
8:45
The Design and Implementation of Large Scale Ubiquitous Network Testbed
Junya Nakata and Yasuo Tan, Japan Advanced Intstiute of Science and Technology
9:00
Bridging the Gap with P2P Patterns
Alois Ferscha, Manfred Hechinger, Rene Mayrhofer, Johannes Kepler Universität, Austria
Ekaterina Chtcherbina, Marquart Franz, Marcos dos Santos Rocha and Andreas Zeidler, Siemens AG, Germany
9:15
Prototyping Smart Objects for Ubiquitous Computing
Matthias Kranz and Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich, Germany
Session 2: Interactive Smart Object Systems
9:30
Tools that Tell Tales: Bridging Context Seams by Digitally Annotating Physical Artifacts
Elizabeth F. Churchill, Les Nelson, Tomas Sokoler, PARC, USA
9:45
User Experience of Physical-Digital Object Systems: Implications for Representation and Infrastructure
Les Nelson, Elizabeth Churchill, PARC, USA
10.00 Coffe Break
Session 3: Context-Awareness and Applications
10:30
Finding Small Changes Using Sensor Networks
Kaoru Hiramatsu, Takashi Hattori, Tatsumi Yamada and Takeshi Okadome, NTT, Japan [slides]
10:45
Project Pervasive Association: Towards Acquiring Situations with Smarter Objects
Takeshi Okadome, Takashi Hattori, Kaoru Hiramatsu, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Tatsumi Yamada, Tetsuji Sato, NTT, Japan [slides]
11:00
A Sensor Networking Middleware for Clustering Similar Things
Tomohiro Nagata, Hisashi Oguma, Kenichit Yamazaki, NTT DoCoMo, Japan [slides]
11:15
Dietary-Aware Dining Table - Tracking What and How Much You Eat
Keng-hao Chang, Shih-yen Liu, Jr-ben Tian, Hao-hua Chu, Cheryl Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan [slides]
11:30
Augmentation of Everyday Artefacts for Context-Aware Applications' Building Blocks
Kaori Fujinami, Kazuya Murata, Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan [slides]
11:45
Cooperating sensor nodes in spatially critical networks for smart measurement and monitoring systems
Brian Hoyle, University of Leeds, UK [slides]
12:00 Lunch break
Session 4: Middleware and Architectures
13:30
Ambient Services Modelling Framework for Intelligent Products
Eddy Bajic, University Henri Poincaré, France [slides]
13:45
Cooperative Artefacts - A Framework for Embedding Knowledge in Real World Objects
Martin Strohbach and Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster Universtiy, UK [slides]
14:00
Smart Objects Systems by Event-driven Rules
Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan
Masahiko Tsukamoto, Kobe Univeristy, Japan
Session 5: RFID Technology and Systems
14:15
A long lifetime transmission-only active RFID System
Bin Zhen, National Institue of INformation and Communication Technology, Japan
Kohei Mizuno, Mamoru Kobayashi and Masashi Shimizu, NTT, Japan
14:30
A Distributed Architecture for a Ubiquitous Item Identification Network
Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe, Kin Seong Leong, Mun Leng Ng, Peter Harold Cole, University of Adelaide, Australia
Daniel Engels, MIT, USA [slides]
14:45
Indirect Object-Sensing Technology to Prevent Out-ofstock at Retail-level
Christian Metzger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
15:00
Coffe Break
15.30
Session 5: Group Discussions
16:15
Group presentations
17:00
Wrap up

 

Papers not presented

Interacting with Anthropomorphized Smart Objects
Michael Schmitz, Saarland University, Germany

Adaptive System Software Support for Cooperating Objects
Pedro José Marrón, Matthias Gauger, Andreas Lachemannn, Daniel Minder, Olga Saukh, Kurth Rothermel, University of Stuttgart, Germany

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