MUM 2009 Programme

Download: Programme (PDF), Accepted Papers and Demos (PDF)

Sunday, Nov 22’09

11:00 – 12:00 Registration
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 17:00 Tutorial:

Introduction to Programming Applications for Mobile Devicesl
Jamie Costello, Andrew Rice

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Monday, Nov 23’09

8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:10 Introduction
9:10 – 10:10 Keynote Presentation

The End of the Ubicomp World is Near, My Friend
Pertti Huuskonen, Nokia Research Centre, Finland

10:10 – 10:40 Coffee Break

10:40 – 12:25 Session I: Location Awareness

Formative Studies for Dynamic Wayfinding Support with In-Building Situated Displays and Mobile Devices
Faisal Taher, Keith Cheverst, Mike Harding, Daniel Fitton

Mobile Claims Assistance
Oliver Baecker, Tobias Ippisch, Florian Michahelles, Sascha Roth, Elgar Fleisch

Short papers:

WiMo: Location-Based Emotion Tagging
Ruturaj Mody, Katherine Willis, Roland Kerstein

Towards Designing Better Maps for Indoor Navigation – Experiences from a Case Study
Arto Puikkonen, Ari-Heikki Sarjanoja, Merja Haveri, Jussi Huhtala, Jonna Häkkilä

Towards Location-Aware Mobile Web Browsers
Stephan Karpischek, Fabio Magagna, Florian Michahelles, Juliana Sutanto, Elgar Fleish

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 16:00 Session II

Recommendation and Voting
The Design Space of Ubiquitous Product Recommendation Systems
Felix von Reischach, Florian Michahelles, Albrecht Schmidt

UbiRockMachine: A Multimodal Music Voting Service for Shared Urban Spaces
Hannu Kukka, Rodolfo Patino, Timo Ojala

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 Session II (Cont.)

Short Papers:

Interactions
Marauders Light: Replacing the Wand with a Mobile Camera Projector Unit
Markus Löchtefeld, Johannes Schöning, Michael Rohs, Antonio Krüger

Handy Feedback: Connecting Smart Meters with Mobile Phones
Markus Weiss, Tobias Grami, Thorsten Staake, Friedemann Mattern, Elgar Fleisch

16:00 – 16:30 ‘One-minute Madness’ - Posters and Demos

17:00 – 19:00 Posters and Demos Reception (Download a list of accepted works)

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Tuesday, Nov 24’09

8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Presentation

The Art of Mobility
Martin Rieser, De Monfort University, UK

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Session III

Systems and architectures
Botnet-inspired Architecture for Interactive Spaces
Ivan Sanchez, Erno Kuusela, Sebastian Turpeinen, Jukka Riekki

Mobicast: A System for Collaborative Event Casting Using Mobile Phones
Ayman Kaheel, Motaz El Saban, Mahmoud Refaat, Mostafa Ezz

Short Paper:

Developing Mobile Services for Specific User Groups Using Virtual Environments
Seamus Hickey, Zeeshan Asghar, Shaista Kazmi

Multimedia services
Multimedia Service Creation Platform for Mobile Experience Sharing
Sari Järvinen, Johannes Peltola, Janne Lahti, Anna Sachinopoulou

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Panel Discussion

Security and Privacy: Is it only a matter of time before a massive loss of personal data or identity theft happens on a smart mobile platform?
Panelists:
David Cleevely, Analysys, Cambridge, UK
Tim Kindberg, University of Bath and Matter 2 Media, UK
Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham, UK

Moderator:
Rachel Jones, Instrata Ltd, Cambridge, UK

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Session IV: User experiences

Content Consumption and Exchange among College Students - a Case Study from India
Sarita Seshagiri

Bringing Technology into School – NFC-enabled School Attendance Supervision
Mari Ervasti, Minna Isomursu, Marianne Kinnula

Understanding Interaction in Hybrid Ubiquitous Computing Environments
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden

19:00 – 21:30 College Dinner at the Corpus Christy College

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Wednesday, Nov 25’09

8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Presentation

Designing with Textures
Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:45 Session V

Multimedia Services
TV Clips - Using Social Bookmarking for Content Discovery in a Fragmented TV Ecosystem
Nitya Narasimhan, Tzvetan Horozov, Venugopal Vasudevan, Joseph Wodka, Jehan Wickramasuriya

Supporting social interaction
Context-Aware Messaging: How Personal, Spatial and Temporal Constraints Affect Text-Based Communication
Simon Jones, Eamonn O’Neill

Designing Social Features for Mobile and Ubiquitous Wellness Applications
Aino Ahtinen, Minna Isomursu, Muzayun Mukhtar, Jani Mäntyjärvi, Jonna Häkkilä, Jan Blom

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 Closing session: MUM Community Feedback and Awards


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TUTORIAL:

Sunday, 22nd November, 2009 13:00-17:00

Introduction to Programming Applications for Mobile Devices
Jamie Costello, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Andrew Rice, University of Cambridge, UK.

The tutorial is aimed at researchers and developers who are interested in learning how to develop mobile applications using different mobile platforms. It will cover essentials of mobile programming,demonstrating important concepts and programming principles using Apple and Microsoft development platforms. No special pre-requisites required; having programming experience is beneficial.


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KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS:

Monday, Novermber 23, 2009 at 9:00am
The End of the Ubicomp World is Near, My Friend
Pertti Huuskonen, Nokia Research Centre, Finland

Abstract:
We live in the golden age of ubiquitous computing. Many elements of Weiser’s bold vision are today commonplace in the lives of billions of people. Without even thinking about it, we today routinely search the web, reach out to people with our mobile internet devices, and find places and things with positioning technologies. Together the myriad devices and services that make up the internet form an unprecedented ubicomp platform of simply tremendous possibilities. We have seen many wonderful ubicomp systems, and research shows us that more are heading our way. The bad news is, greater failures are heading our way, too.

Each new generation of systems brings added functionality, which inevitably means added complexity somewhere in the systems. This, in turn, creates numerous new failure modes with each generation. Moreover, increasing connectivity brings novel ways to propagate the failures into other systems. We see around us major shortcomings in terms of usability, interoperability, and security, and worse can be expected, should your cup be half empty.

This talk will explore some of the factors that shape the ubicomp field – breakneck speeds of innovation, unstoppable technology development, maturing of services and information economies, among others – and discuss why such developments may have undesirable consequences. On a positive note, this talk will also identify other promising factors that may ultimately render our cup more than half full.

BIO:
Pertti Huuskonen is Principal Scientist with Nokia Research Center, Tampere, Finland. His research interests include context awareness, ubiquitous computing, and knowledge representation, with applications in the domains of mobile multimedia, personal content management, and mobile interaction. He holds a doctorate from University of Oulu.

In the nineties Pertti was busy applying AI techniques to industrial control problems at VTT, Finland. There he had the opportunity to observe design and operation issues of very complex systems, including power plants, telecom networks, paper machines, or steel mills, and seek knowledge-based solutions to help their users. While Pertti was diagnosing particle accelerator control systems at CERN in the early 1990s, he witnessed the birth of the WWW but, incredibly, predicted the Web would never be used outside the lab. This glorious failure seems to keep him obsessed with observing, analyzing and forecasting developments in our digital lives.

In 1997 Pertti joined Nokia to promote ubicomp and context awareness technologies in the emerging mobile phone business. After a decade of research and development, he is excited to see such technologies becoming available to billions of mobile device users. To spread the word, he co-authored the book “Personal Content Experience”, published by Wiley&Sons. Explore his darker side at www.schbert.net.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 9am
The Art of Mobility
Martin Rieser, De Monfort University, UK

Abstract:
Screen cultures today are dominated by narrative and its modes of framing. The advent of “Pervasive” or “Ubiquitous” media such as mobile smartphones with GPS sensing means that new dispersed forms of narrative interaction are now possible for the public. The convergence of mobile technologies and ubiquitous computing are creating a world where information-rich environments may be mapped directly onto urban topologies. Dispersed forms of interaction raise intriguing new questions about the nature of narrative and communication, particularly in relation to modes of audience’s participation and reception.

This new and experimental work, so far undertaken in the arena of interactive public art or spatialised interaction through mobile technologies, is in pressing need of exploration, definition, and documentation. Emergent technologies of interaction and the changing nature of public interactive engagement present a radical challenge to Western narrative and its vehicles and traditions. Boundaries between established forms (i.e., games and cinema) are thrown into question and the very concept of creative authorship becomes problematic. Whilst other emerging technologies are already redefining existing forms of screen‐based exhibition and reception (interactive television and digital cinema), they still tie down the audience in relation to the screen. Locative technology blurs the borders between physical and virtual space, leading to the redefinition of the concept of the virtual from that of simulation to that of augmentation.

This poses a series of questions around changing concepts of space and place for a wide range of traditional disciplines, ranging from Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Computer Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Fashion to Graphic design. The talk will be illustrated by examples from Rieser's recent practice, including The Third Woman interactive mobile film.

BIO:
Martin Rieser has always been fascinated by the possibility of creating fragmentary narrative structures and interactive stories using new technology. This has led him into his current explorations using mobile and locative technologies and large-scale interactive video experiences. Rieser has worked in the field of interactive arts for many years, having originally studied Literature and Philosophy, and subsequently Fine Arts at Goldsmiths and in Paris. He is Joint research Professor between the Institute of Creative Technologies and The Faculty of Art and Design at De Montfort. His art practice in internet art and interactive narrative installations has been seen around the world including Cannes, Holland, Paris, Vienna, Thessaloniki, London, Germany, Milan, Montreal, Nagoya and Melbourne, Australia. He has published numerous essays and books on digital art including New Screen Media: Cinema/ Art/Narrative (BFI/ZKM, 2002), and has recently edited The Mobile Audience, a book on locative technology and art due out this year from Rodopi.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at 9am
Designing with Texture
Alan Blackwell, University of Cambridge, UK

Abstract:
Good engineering is simple and clean, but compelling media experiences are richly textured, often involving layers of perceptual, social and cognitive complexity. How can technology researchers anticipate and accommodate complex media experiences? The history of media innovation offers many lessons, from the Stradivarius violin to the Xerox Star.
Contemporary artists and designers continue to push the boundaries of textured experience with new ubiquitous and mobile technologies. This talk will survey the research landscape of richly textured media, and offer a field guide to the disciplines of practice and research from which to design with texture.

BIO:
Alan Blackwell is Reader in Interdisciplinary Design at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, with qualifications in professional engineering, computer science and experimental psychology. He has over 20 years experience of designing industrial systems, electronic and software products, and more recently as a consultant to design and research organisations. He has taught design courses and supervised postgraduate design research students in Computing, Architecture, Psychology, Languages, Music and Engineering. He holds fellowships, advisory and visiting posts at Anglia Ruskin University, City University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington and Darwin College Cambridge, and has consulted or carried out contract research for companies including Boeing, Nokia, Intel, Microsoft and many others.

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PANEL DISCUSSION:

November 24, 2pm-3:30pm, Crowne Plaza, Cambridge
Security and Privacy: Is it only a matter of time before a massive loss of personal data or identity theft happens on a smart mobile platform?

Panelists:
David Cleevely, Analysys, Cambridge, UK
Tim Kindberg, University of Bath and Matter 2 Media, UK
Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham, UK

Moderator:
Rachel Jones, Instrata Ltd, Cambridge, UK

Theme:
We have a growing number of smart platforms that are becoming established, each with its own market place for applications (Blackberry RIM, Nokia Ovi, Apple iPhone, Google g2, Vodafone 360) but we don’t have a security architecture that actually makes sense in terms of protecting end users against all the attacks that are common place on the Internet today. Securing the potentially massive amount of interactions using mobile devices is difficult because, typically, there will be no a priori shared information such as passwords, addresses, or PIN codes between the phone, its user, and the service they want to use.

Additionally, mobile devices often lack powerful user interfaces to support classical authentication methods. Personal content is indeed private but with emerging mobile payment and ticketing solutions, and the socialising of contact information, personal information is becoming even more highly sensitive. It’s only a matter of time before a massive loss of personal data, or identity theft happens on one of these platforms (or more than one) and the economic and technical fallout will be quite serious.