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International distinction for CrisisTracker

Congratulations to Jakob Rogstadius for this great distinction.  CrisisTracker, an open-source platform built in collaboration by the University of Oulu, the University of Madeira, IBM Research, and the Qatar Computing Research Institute, has won the “Tech Challenge” award by USAID and Humanity United. The Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention emerged in response to an initiative issued by US President Barack Obama, and…

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Denzil Ferreira defends PhD!

Congratulations to Denzil Ferreira who has just defended his PhD. His opponent was Andrew Campbell (Darthmouth College), and his pre-examiners Ceclia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) and Florian Michahelles (ETZ Zurich). Denzil’s thesis was entitled AWARE: A mobile context instrumentation middleware to collaboratively understand human behaviour. You can read more about his thesis in this post. Photo: Denzil (middle) is posing with…

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Roundup from Ubicomp 2013

This year we presented two full papers at Ubicomp 2013. The two papers are available in our publications.  Crowdsourcing on the Spot: Altruistic Use of Public Displays, Feasibility, Performance, and Behaviours. This work was mentioned in New Scientist and looks at using public displays as a crowdsourcing platform. Revisiting Human-Battery Interaction with an Interactive Battery Interface. This paper presents an application that helps to dramatically…

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