7th International UBI Summer School was held in Oulu, Finland, June 13-18, 2016. Annual UBI Summer Schools provide researchers, students, and industry and public sector professionals with an opportunity to gain hands on experience and insight on selected topics on the multidisciplinary fields of HCI, ubiquitous computing and urban informatics under the tutelage of distinguished experts. UBISS 2016 was organised in cooperation with the…
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Workshops at UbiComp’16
Members of the Center for Ubiquitous Computing are co-organising 4 different workshops at the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp ’16) in Heidelberg, Germany. 2nd International Workshop on Mobile and Situated Crowdsourcing (website) Crowdsourcing beyond the desktop is increasingly attracting interest due to the rapid proliferation of smart phones and other ubiquitous technologies, such as public displays.…
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Notable mentions of our research in media include: The Economist: Buddy, can you spare a Watt? (30/4/2016) Nielsen Norman group: 3D Touch on iPhone 6S: Embrace the Force (1/11/2015) New Scientist: Magnetic messages let smartphones receive secret data (3/7/2014) New Scientist: Use a bus stop touchscreen to kill time – and help out (31/7/2013) Huffington Post: Understanding Humanitarian Disasters Through Citizen Communication (6/8/2013)…
Continue ReadingSpecial Session on Intelligent Internet of Things
Member of the Center for Ubiquitous Computing Xiang Su is organizing a Special session on Intelligent Internet of Things in IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – SMC 2016, October 9-12, 2016, Budapest, Hungary. Other co-organizer is Associate Professor Yuhong Li from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China). Description: Internet of Things (IoT) has been considered as…
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