Conference Programme
This is the final conference program. Please note that the colors next to the sessions specify the rooms in which the sessions take place.
'Blue' and 'Yellow' stand for the Blue / Yellow Auditorium, 'Green' and 'Red' stand for the Green / Red Room.
All keynotes and invited talks will take place in the Blue Auditorium. Coffee and lunch breaks take place in an extra catering room.
Day 1 - September 24th, 2007  
8:00 - 9:00 Registration  
9:00 - 9:30 Conference Opening  
9:30 - 10:30 Keynote 1:
Assistive Environments for Successful Aging
by Professor Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
Chaired by Hani Hagras
Blue Auditorium		  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 12:40
Blue		 Social and Psychological Dimensions of Designing and Experiencing Intelligent Environments in the Urban Context
Chaired by Dimitris Charitos		  
 
  1. TOWARDS INVESTIGATING THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF USING LOCATIVE MEDIA WITHIN THE URBAN CONTEXT,
    Diamantaki Katerina, Charitos Dimitris, Tsianos Nikolaos, Lekkas Zaharias
  2. UNDERSTANDING MOBILE SPATIAL INTERACTION IN URBAN ENVIROMENTS,
    Katharine Willis, Christoph Hoelscher, Gregor Wilbertz
  3. Life with an ITwist: technology that promotes awareness,
    Jiannis Georgiadis
  4. IDENTIFYING CRITERIA FOR THE DESIGN OF AFFECTIVE AND SOCIALLY ENGAGING KINETIC ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES,
    SOCRATES YIANNOUDES
  5. An Activity-based Perspective of Interacting with Ambient Intelligence Systems,
    Charalampos Rizopoulos
  
Yellow  Interacting with Intelligent Enviorments
Chaired by Günther Palm		  
 
  1. KU-TALK : A Speech User Interface for an Intelligent Working, Learning and Teaching Environment,
    Gordon Hunter, Eckhard Pfluegel, Sanket Jalan
  2. HMM-BASED SEMANTIC ANALYSIS FOR THE ESST AND MEDIA TASKS,
    Dirk Bühler, Wolfgang Minker
  3. Communication Failures in the Speech-Based Control of Smart Home Systems,
    Antti Oulasvirta, Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Anthony Jameson, Sebastian Möller
  4. The Tangible Reminder,
    Marc Hermann, Thorsten Mahler, Guido de Melo, Michael Weber
  5. Classifier fusion for emotion recognition from speech,
    Stefan Scherer, Friedhelm Schwenker, Günther Palm
  
Green  Ambient Networks and Interfaces
Chaired by Angelica Reyes		  
 
  1. A network selection mechanism for next generation mobile communications,
    Juan Antonio Guerrero Ibáñez, Antoni Barba Marti
  2. SNAF:A Service Naming and Addressing Framework for SerAN Platform,
    Dolors Royo, Angelica Reyes, Roque Messeguer, Roger Martinez
  3. OPEN USER INTERFACE STANDARDS - TOWARDS COHERENT, TASK-ORIENTED AND SCALABE USER INTERFACES IN HOME ENVIRONMENTS,
    Gottfried Zimmermann
  4. Collaborative Business Items,
    Christian Decker, Till Riedel, Michael Beigl, Luciana Moreira sa de Souza, Patrik Spiess, Stephan Haller, Jens Müller
  5. Cell-Torrent: A Hybrid File-Sharing Model for Wirelss Networks,
    Amal Elnahas, Abdellatif Olama, Amira Thabet
  
Red Middleware for Intelligent Enviorment
Chaired by Diego López de Ipiña		  
 
  1. On Middleware Support for Motion Awareness,
    Ahmed Tawfik
  2. Priamos: A Middleware Architecture for Real-Time Semantic Annotation of Context Features,
    Nikolaos Konstantinou, Emmanuel Solidakis, Stavroula Zoi, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Nikolas Mitrou
  3. PROTOTYPING THE ACCESS OF HANDHELD DEVICE CLIENTS TO A DISTRIBUTED SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURE,
    Felix Freitag, Nicolo Bevilacqua, Isaac Chao, Leandro Navarro
  4. Fault-resilient Ubiquitous Service Composition,
    Jinchun Xia, Carl Chang, Tae-Hyung Kim, Hen-I Yang, Raja Bose, Sumi Helal
  5. A CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE MASH-UP PLATFORM FOR UBIQUITOUS WEB,
    Diego López de Ipiña, Juan Ignacio Vazquez, Joseba Abaitua
  
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 - 15:00 Keynote 2:
Self-Service Troubleshooting Automated Agents
by Dr. Roberto Pieraccini, SpeechCycle, USA
Chaired by Achilles Kameas		  
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break  
15:30 - 17:30
Blue		 Intelligent Agents
Chaired by Hani Hagras		  
 
  1. Escape from local minima for virtual agent navigation in unknown virtual environments,
    Jafreezal Jaafar, Eric McKenzie
  2. SUPPORTING MOBILE ONLINE MULTIUSER SERVICE DEVELOPMENT,
    Janne Lautamäki, Anssi Heiska, Tommi Mikkonen, Riku Suomela
  3. Extraction of Similar terms for Unsupervised Utterance Categorization in Technical Support Automated Agents,
    Amparo Albalate, Dimitar Dimitrov
  4. Bayesian Activity Recognition in Residence for Elders,
    Tim van Kasteren, Ben Krose
  5. The Effect of An Embodied Agent's Performance on Self-Efficacy in Human-Agent Interactions,
    Naotake Tsukidate, Yasunori Morishima
  6. Extrospection: Agents Reasoning About the Environment,
    Daghan L. Acay, Philippe Pasquier, Liz Sonenberg
  
Yellow Ubiquitous Computing
Chaired by Vic Callaghan		  
 
  1. Experiences with Building Intelligent Environment through Sentient Artefacts,
    Fahim Kawsar, Kaori Fujinami, Tatsuo Nakajima
  2. 3D Virtual Interface for Ubiquitous Intelligent Environments,
    Kevin I-Kai Wang, Ian Yen-Hung Chen, Waleed H. Abdulla, Zoran Salcic, Burkhard C. Wünsche
  3. A TOPOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN STRATEGY TO PREVENT INSTABILITY IN RULE-BASED AUTONOMOUS AGENTS,
    Victor Zamudio, Vic Callaghan
  4. A SYSTEM FOR USER FRIENDLY PERVASIVE COMPUTING MANAGEMENT,
    Massimiliano Giordano, Vincenzo Loia, Giuseppe Polese, Genoveffa Tortora
  5. A Study on A Correlation Coefficient to Associate an Object with its User,
    Kaori Fujinami, Susanna Pirttikangas
  6. Towards Privacy Protection in Pervasive Healthcare,
    Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Nilothpal Talukder, Achilles Kameas
  
Green Multimodal Spoken Language Dialogue Systems
Chaired by Wolfgang Minker		  
 
  1. SEMANTICS ENHANCED BROWSING FOR INTELLIGENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS,
    Dmitri Toropov
  2. Interpretation of Multimodal Designation with Imprecise Gesture,
    Ali Choumane, Jacques Siroux
  3. TOWARDS AN EMOTION-SENSITIVE SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM -- CLASSIFICATION AND DIALOGUE MODELING,
    Johannes Pittermann, Angela Pittermann, Hong Meng, Wolfgang Minker
  4. Towards Advanced Speech Driven Navigation Systems for Cars,
    Stefan Hamerich
  5. A SEMI-AUTOMATIC TOOL FOR EMOTION CORPORA ANNOTATION,
    Mohamed Aly, Johannes Pittermann, Dirk Bühler, Wolfgang Minker
  6. NEW USE OF MOBILE PHONES: TOWARDS MULTIMODAL INFORMATION ACCESS SYSTEMS,
    Dmitry Zaykovskiy, Alexander Schmitt, Manuel Lutz
  
Red Architecture and Intelligent Enviorments
Chaired by Dimitris Papalexopoulos		  
 
  1. RESPONSIVE EVENT-FULL PUBLIC SPACES,
    Polyxeni Mantzou, Xenofon Bitsikas, Georgios Styliaras
  2. Mobility and Emotional Distance: Exploring the Ceiling as an Ambient Display to provide Remote Awareness,
    Martin Tomitsch, Thomas Grechenig, Sonja Mayrhofer
  3. FROM INDILIGENT TO INTELLIGENT SPACE AND BACK: ACUMEN [INTELLIGENCE] VS. LOGISTICS [DILIGENCE] VS. PANOPTICISM [INTELLIGENCE AS SERVICE],
    Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos
  4. Corporate Space as a Totality: Technology's Effect on Spatial Thought,
    Olga Pantelidou
  5. Intravein- Parametric Urbanism,
    Brian Dale, Gerard Joson, Ioannis Orfanos, Pavlos Xanthopoulos
  6. THE BASIS FOR THE DESIGN OF SPACES WHERE ARCHITECTURE AND COMPUTING MEET: ?CONTEXT?,
    Simge Esin
  
18:00 - 19:30 Touristic Tour through Ulm  
19:30 - 24:00 Conference Dinner  
     
Day 2 - September 25th, 2007  
08:30 - 10:30
Blue		 Context-Aware Computing
Chaired by Amal Elnahas		  
 
  1. A Negotiation Subsystem and Protocol for Sensitivity and Reactivity in the Context-Oriented Architecture,
    Sherif G. Aly, Ahmed Sameh, Aisha Elsafty
  2. Estimation of Displacement along Level Straight Paths through Body Center of Mass Accelerations,
    Antonio M. López, Diego Álvarez, Rafael C. González, Juan C. Álvarez
  3. Reference Architecture for Multi-modal Perceptual Systems: Tooling for Application Development,
    Jan Kleindienst, Jan Curin, Pascal Fleury
  4. HLPSD: HYBRID LISTENER PROXIMITY BASED SERVICE DISCOVERY FOR INDOOR TOURISM APPLICATIONS,
    Christine Bassem, Hoda Naguib, Amal ElNahas
  5. An Accurate Indoor Localization Technique Using Image Matching,
    Rimon Elias, Amal Elnahas
  6. A PERSONALIZED QUERY EXPANSION APPROACH USING CONTEXT,
    Indra Seher, Athula Ginige, Seyed A. Shahrestani
  
Yellow Ambient Intelligence
Chaired by Achilles Kameas		  
 
  1. IGTAI - AN IDEA GENERATION TOOL FOR AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE,
    Carlos Freitas, Goreti Marreiros, Carlos Ramos
  2. An open Context Information Management Infrastructure - the IST-Amigo Project,
    Fano Ramparany, Remco Poortinga, Maja Stikic, Jörg Schmalenströer, Thorsten Prante
  3. MULTI-MODAL TELEPHONY SERVICES IN HOMETALK,
    Tomáš Macek, Jan Kleindienst, Jakub Krchák, Ladislav Seredi
  4. USING THE MODULAR CONTROLLER ARCHITECTURE (MCA) IN AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING,
    Jan Koch, Michalis Anastasopoulos, Karsten Berns
  5. THE SEMANTIC COOKBOOK: SHARING COOKING EXPERIENCES IN THE SMART KITCHEN,
    Michael Schneider
  6. Spatial Counterpart Objects for Intelligent Environments,
    Ichiro Satoh
  
Green Human Computer Interaction
Chaired by Michael Weber		  
 
  1. KUP: a Model for the Multimodal Presentation of Information in Ambient Intelligence,
    Christophe Jacquet, Yacine Bellik, Yolaine Bourda
  2. TOUCH-BASED INTERACTION: AN APPROACH THROUGH NFC,
    Jose Bravo, Ramon Hervas, Carlos Sanchez, Gabriel Chavira, Salvador Nava, Sergio Martin, Manuel Castro
  3. PROBLEMO -- PROBLEM SOLVING AND EMOTION AWARENESS IN SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS,
    Johannes Pittermann, Wolfgang Minker, Angela Pittermann, Dirk Bühler
  4. BIG MaMUT IS WATCHING YOU -- INTERACTION-TRACKING FOR INSTRUMENTED ENVIRONMENTS,
    Michael Schmitz, Henning Zimmer
  5. A Comprehensive Head Pose and Gaze Database,
    Ulrich Weidenbacher, Georg Layher, Petra-Maria Strauss, Heiko Neumann
  6. A qualitative usability evaluation of a mobile 3D-based environment controller,
    Ali A. Nazari Ashirehjini
  
Red Data Dissemination and Communication Protocols in Sensor Networks
Chaired by Sajid Hussain		  
 
  1. Mobile Effect Reduction in Data-Centric Storage for Wireless Sensor Networks,
    Hung-Cuong LE, Hervé GUYENNET, Nouredinne ZERHOUNI
  2. Genetic Algorithm for Data Aggregation Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks,
    Obidul Islam, Sajid Hussain, Haiyi Zhang
  3. Clustering of Multi-Source Data,
    Abdelhamid Bouchachia
  4. From Sensors to Informatics: Creating Communication Protocols for Caregiving,
    Anthony Glascock, David Kutzik
  5. City Traffic Simulator using Geographical Information Systems and Agent Based Simulation,
    Haiyi Zhang, Oscar de Farias
  6. TEMPORAL PATTERN DISCOVERY FOR ANAMOLY DETECTION IN SMART HOME,
    Vikramaditya Jakkula, Diane Cook, Aaron Crandall
  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 12:00 Keynote 3:
Situated Judgment and Ambient Intelligence
by Professor Tom Rodden, University of Nottingham, UK
Chaired by Wolfgang Minker		  
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break  
13:00 - 13:45 Invited Talk:
Do Digital Homes Dream of Electric Families? - Architecting Consumer Experience
by Dr. Brian Johnson, Intel, USA
Chaired by Michael Gardner		  
14:00 - 15:20
Blue		 Applications of Sensors in Intelligent Environments
Chaired by Thomas Papakostas		  
 
  1. Detection of discrete events in real time vibration data using sensor networks for intelligent environments,
    Robert Stacey, Martin Colley
  2. TACTILE SENSOR: STRETCHING THE LIMITS,
    Thomas Papakostas
  3. Physical Activity Classification from Body Center of Gravity Accelerations,
    Ernesto Cordera, Antonio M. López, Diego Álvarez, Rafael C. González, Juan C. Álvarez
  4. DEVELOPMENT OF A SENSING SEAT FOR HUMAN AUTHENTICATION,
    Giovanni Pioggia, Marcello Ferro, Giuseppe Zupone, Leonardo Chirulli, Danilo De Rossi
  
Yellow Intelligent Cities
Chaired by Nicos Komninos		  
 
  1. FOUR PLATFORMS FOR INTELLIGENT CITIES,
    Nicos Komninos, Isidoros Passas, Paraskevi Tarani, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos
  2. Creative Urban Regeneration: The Case of 'Innovation Hubs',
    Catarina Selada, Inês Vilhena da Cunha
  3. City of Collision: An Interactive Video Installation to Inform and Engage,
    Konstantinos Chorianopoulos, Tim Rieniets
  4. e-City Europe: Status, Propositions, and Opportunities,
    Krassimira Paskaleva-Shapira
  
Green Socio-Technical Aspects of Intelligent Environments: Designing for Future Digital Lifestyles
Chaired by Michael Gardner		  
 
  1. Conflicts over control in shared households. Cultural Probes - home is where the art is.,
    Lindsay O'Neill
  2. EVALUATION AND USER ACCEPTANCE OF A DIALOGUE SYSTEM USING WIZARD-OF-OZ RECORDINGS,
    Petra-Maria Strauss, Holger Hoffmann, Stefan Scherer
  3. Digital Complexity in the Home: New departures in understanding user experiences?,
    Joy van Helvert
 
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break  
15:40 - 17:00
Blue		 Smart Spaces
Chaired by Ichiro Satoh		  
 
  1. Programming the Smart Home,
    Urs Bischoff, Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Gerd Kortuem
  2. THE LIVING-ROOM: BROWSING, ORGANIZING AND PRESENTING DIGITAL IMAGE COLLECTIONS IN INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS,
    Otmar Hilliges, Maria Wagner, Lucia Terrenghi, Andreas Butz
  3. Ambient Intelligence and Smart Spaces for Managerial Work Support,
    Peter Mikulecky
  4. USING UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY TO REALISE SCALABLE INTELLIGENT AGRICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS,
    Panos Stamatis, Christos Goumopoulos, Achilles Kameas
  
Yellow Demo Session
Chaired by Wolfgang Minker		  
 
  1. A HIGH-FIDELITY SIMULATION OF THE SMART FRIDGE ENABLING PRODUCT-BASED SERVICES,
    Matthias Rothensee
  2. AUGMENTING A RUGGED STANDARD DJ TURNTABLE WITH A TANGIBLE INTERFACE FOR MUSIC BROWSING AND PLAYBACK MANIPULATION,
    Andreas Pabst, Roger Walk
  3. DESIGN OF UBIQUITOUS INFORMATION ENVIRONMENTS; ?TOUR OF NAFPLIO? PROJECT,
    DIMITRIS PSYCHOGIOS, MARIA KECHRINIOTI, RENA STOLIDOU
  4. Event_Fields: A Virtual Space for Communication,
    Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Alasdair Turner, Xenofon Papadopoulos
  
Green Art and Design in Intelligent Enviorment
Chaired by Kostas Daflos		  
 
  1. The ''MUSIC BOX'' C(2)IPO_06 : INTERACTIVE HYBRID SCULPTURE,
    KOSTAS DAFLOS
  2. BOTANICAL INTERFACE DESIGN -CREATIVE KITS, TOOLS, AND METHODS-,
    HIROYA TANAKA, SATOSHI KURIBAYASHI
  3. Ambient and Social TV: A Conceptual Design that Connects Everyday Life in a Sporadic Community,
    Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
  4. SMART MIRROR FOR AMBIENT HOME ENVIRONMENT,
    M. Anwar Hossain, Pradeep K. Atrey, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
  
17:00 End of Conference