Category Archives: Research

Jacobs Foundation gives €200M grant to IUB

The Jacobs foundation will fund my previous employer, the International University Bremen with a €200M grant over the next years. IUB will change its name to Jacobs University Bremen. This makes it highly likely that IUB (now JUB) will be … Continue reading

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Expo2000 Robots revived

A couple of months ago, I received one of the Robots of the Expo2000 project by BBM and the ZKM. With the help of Heinz Huber from Fraunhofer IML, we were able to revive it. Andreas Kemnade installed an updated … Continue reading

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Mobile Phone Robocup Rescue Software released

Nils released our MobileResQ software today. It consists of a java-based mobile phone client (should work on all MIDP2.0 / CLDC1.0 phones with Bluetooth and JSR82 Java bluetooth interface) and a java-based server that can run on any java-enabled internet … Continue reading

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Wearable Computing Lecture

The wearable computing lecture will start next monday, October 30th. More info: http://www-agki.tzi.de/LV/W/

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ISWC…

Time to write something… During ISWC, i was quite busy, so the updates to the blog have been somewhat delayed, but here’s a small report. We demonstrated the HotWire-Setup for evaluation of wearable applications with realworld tasks. Many people were … Continue reading

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Preparing ISWC…

Next week, ISWC is going to take place in Montreux. And right before, the review of the WearIT@Work-Project will be held in Zurich. So we’re all a bit busy preparing talks, posters, demos etc.

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Magda Mazurek’s Diploma Defense

Magda Mazurek is defending her diploma thesis titled “Gruppen-Recommender-System für DVB-H basiertes Fernsehen”, i.e. group recommender system for dvb-h tv.

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Presentation of Foot-to-Foot PDR Diploma Thesis

Dschen Reinecke, one of our diploma students presented his first ideas for his diploma thesis called “Fußgängernavigation durch Messung des Fußversatzes”, i.e. pedestrian navigation by foot displacement measurement. Some information on his approach can be found here.

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Mensch und Computer 2006 – Tuesday after lunch

Todays invited talk was by Matthias Rauterberg from University of Eindhoven , he reported on a new project in which he tries to create the western equivalent on the ZENetic computer which is called ALICE. As ZENetic tries to demonstrate … Continue reading

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Mensch und Computer 2006, Tuesday Sessions

Today, I will be presenting our WInspect Glove in the poster session. Irma Lindt from the Fraunhofer FIT is presenting a pervasive game called “epidemic menace“. This is part of an EU integrated project called Iperg The game has stationary … Continue reading

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