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…
Continue ReadingAttending the Dagstuhl seminar on Crowdsourcing
Vassilis Kostakos participated in the Dagstuhl seminar on Crowdsourcing. The seminar lasted 3 days and was attended by more than 20 scientists internationally. It was entitled Crowdsourcing: From Theory to Practice and Long-Term Perspectives, and was organised by Claudio Bartolini (HP Labs – Palo Alto, US) Tobias Hoßfeld (Universität Würzburg, DE) Phuoc Tran-Gia (Universität Würzburg, DE) Maja Vukovic (IBM TJ Watson Research Center – Yorktown Heights, US)…
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