Category Archives: Wearable Computing

HeadSLAM buzz

We received a bit of publicity around our HeadSLAM presentation at Pervasive and ISWC. There’s a good short article on the new scientist website here. Collin Barras, the author of that article had a few extra questions on our work … Continue reading

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ISWC 2008

I am currently at ISWC. The conference is a bit smaller this year, but the quality of the papers is very good. After two excelent keynotes by Raj Reddy and Marcel Just, the conference program started yesterday morning Burcu Cinaz … Continue reading

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Event update

Meanwhile, the third event I am co-organizing is about to close its submission, my workshop at the “Mensch und Computer” conference in Lübeck on September 8th, 2008.

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SSRR and Rescue Camp 2007

I’m currently visiting the SSRR 2007 workshop. We had quite a time here in Rome. Together with Alexander Kleiner and Christian Dornhege, I was showing a demonstration of RFID SLAM-based cooperative pedestrian indoor localization. I collected quite some pedestrian data … Continue reading

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Mensch und Computer 2007 in Weimar

At the moment, I’m attending Mensch und Computer 2007. The invited talk of this morning was very nice, altough it was given via Skype as the speaker, Adrian David Cheok fell ill and was not allowed to travel. The talk … Continue reading

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Ingrid Rügge’s Ph.D defense

This week, Ingrid Rügge defended her Ph.D entitled “Einsatzpotenziale, Nutzungsprobleme und  Lösungsansätze mobil tragbarer Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien”. Being a member of her Thesis Committee, I was very impressed with the broadness of her work and she gave one of the … 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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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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