Martin Strohbach

Research Interests

Projects

Publications

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Short Bio

Martin Strohbach is a PhD student and Researcher in the Computing Department at Lancaster University, UK. He received his Diploma (MSc equivalent) at University of Karlsruhe, Germany in the area of context-aware systems in 2001. His advisors are Hans Gellersen and Gerd Kortuem. Martin is now approaching the end of his second year.

Research Interests

Martin is generally interested in ubicomp systems and technologies, particular in Smart Objects including RFID technologies and innovative gadgets. He is particularly interested in systems of Smart Objects that include various sensors and computation forming a network of interacting artefacts. In his PhD he investigates how physical objects can be computationally and physically augmented to observe their environment and cooperatively reason about their observations, e.g. for assesing safety critical situations. We refer to these kind of smart objects as Cooperative Artefacts. Martin’s research is part of Lancaster’s focus on Embedded and Interactive Systems (EIS).

Past and Present Projects

• CoBIs - Collaborative Business Items
• Smart-its - EU funded project; now finished. This projected investigated the potential of embedding computational power into phyical artefact. The project is now succesfully completed and has provided three hardware platforms for artefact augmentation: (1) Particle Smart-its (2) DIY Smart-its and (3) BTnodes. Martin has actively contributed to the development of the DIY Smart-its and helped developing an architecture for Smart-its by prototyping demonstrators that lead to a cooperation model for distributed reasoning between augmented artefacts.
• EQUATOR: EPSRC funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) that focues on physical and digital interaction.
• Relate - EPSRC funded project that investigates relative positioning technologies for compositional tangible interfaces. Several prototypes have been built using infrared and ultrasound technology. Martin is using the Relate technology to provide Cooperative Artefacts a sense of spatial awareness.

Publications

1. M. Strohbach, G. Kortuem, H.-W. Gellersen and Christian Kray. Using Cooperative Artefacts as a Basis for Activity Recognition. Accepted for Publication in Proceedings of EUSAI 2004.
2. M. Strohbach, H.-W. Gellersen, G. Kortuem and Christian Kray. Cooperative Artefacts: Assessing Real World Situations with Embedded Technology. Accepted for Publication in Ubicomp 2004. [pdf] [ppt]
3. L.E. Holmquist, H.-W. Gellersen, A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, S. Antifakos, F. Michahelles, B. Schiele, M. Beigl and Ramia Mazé. Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-its. In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, January/February 2004, Vol. 24, No. 1, IEEE Press pp.56-63 [pdf]
4. C. Kray and M. Strohbach.:Gesture-based interface reconfiguration. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS) at Ubicomp 2004, Seattle, USA.[pdf] [Video .mp4 - 5 MB] [Video .avi 50MB]
5. Lars Erik Holmquist, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, Florian Michahelles, Michael Beigl, Lalya Gaye, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt and Martin Strohbach: Building Intelligent Environments with Smart-Its. SIGGRAPH 2003, Emerging Technologies exhibition.[Video]
6. M. Strohbach and H.-W. Gellersen. Smart Clustering - Networking Smart Objects Based On Their Physical Relationships. In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA5), Liverpool 2002. [pdf]
7. E. Catterall, K. Van Laerhoven and M. Strohbach. "Self-Organization in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks: An Empirical Study". In Proc. of Artificial Life VIII, The 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems. Sydney, Australia. MIT Press, pp. 260-264. [pdf]
8. A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, K. Van Laerhoven and H.-W. Gellersen. "Ubiquitous interaction - Using surfaces in everyday environments as pointing devices". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 2615, N. Carbonell & C. Stephanidis (Eds.). Springer Verlag, 2002, pp. 263-279. [pdf] [Videos]
9. A. Schmidt, M. Strohbach, K. Van Laerhoven, A. Friday and H.-W. Gellersen. "Context Acquisition based on Load Sensing". In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, G. Boriello and L.E. Holmquist (Eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 2498, ISBN 3-540-44267-7; Springer Verlag, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2002, pp. 333 - 351. [pdf]

Other Papers

1. M.Strohbach. The Smart-its Platform for Embedded Context-Aware Systems”. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, London, 6-7 April 2004. [pdf] [ppt]
2. M. Strohbach. “A Dispersed Systems Framework for Application Development based on Smart Objects”. First Year Report for PhD Assessment, May 2003. [pdf]

Presentations

1. Lecture on “Rule-based Development with Smart-its”, Intelligent Products Master Course. IT University Gothenburg, 26-29 November 2004. First Lecture [ppt]. Second Lecture [ppt]  [pictures]

Videos

1. Building Intelligent Devices with Smart-its. [14MB]
2. Ubiquitous interaction - Using surfaces in everyday environments as pointing devices [50 MB] [20MB] [3MB]
3. Smart-Its Rapid Protoyping Video (Photo show) [65MB] [15MB] [1MB] [other encodings]
4. Weight Table Browser [.mp4 (5MB) ] [.avi 50MB]

Contact details

Computing Department
Faculty of Applied Sciences
InfoLab 21, South Drive,
Lancaster University,
Lancaster  LA1 4WA
UK

Room: D 21
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510369
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510492
Email: strohbach@comp.lancs.ac.uk

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