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13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing September 17-21, 2011 Tsinghua University, Bejing, China Message from the General Co-Chairs Message from the General Co-Chairs 1 Program at a Glance 2 Detailed Papers / Video Program 3 On behalf of the organizing committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 13th International Keynote 9 Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. This is the first time the UbiComp conference series comes to China. Posters 10 UbiComp is a conference that truly captures the wide variety of research activities in the diverse field of ubiquitous computing, encompassing research from, e.g., Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile Computing, Demos 13 Location and Sensing Technology, Machine Learning, Middleware and Systems, and Programming Models Videos 16 and Tools. Doctoral Consortium 17 September 2011 also marks a historic date in UbiComp. It is exactly 20 years from when Dr. Mark Weiser’s Tutorials 18 landmark article, “The Computer for the Twenty-First Century,” appeared in Scientific American. This article is acclaimed for widely publicizing the idea of UbiComp in the research community and setting the goals for Workshops 21 the early years of the field. We will mark this historic occasion with a special panel in tribute to the late Dr. Panel 22 Weiser. Our panel of luminaries, including those who worked with Dr. Weiser at Xerox PARC, as well as his contemporaries who were influenced by his work at the time, will reminisce on Mark’s predictions as well as Visions of UbiComp Film Contest 25 present their view of where the field should move going forward. Social Program 26 Map 27 Putting together UbiComp 2011 has been a team effort and we would like to thank a series of people. First, we’d like to thank the Program Chairs, Don Patterson, Yvonne Rogers, and Xing Xie, who recruited a strong Conference Venue Layout 28 program committee that has selected an exciting set of papers for the conference. The local organizers, Yu General Information 29 Chen, Silvia M. Lindtner and Yu Zheng, have been working hard to put it all together in Beijing. At ACM, Ash- ley Cozzi provided efficient and prompt support. As chair of the steering committee, James Scott has been Registration Desk Hours 29 supportive in answering our questions about the conference history. We are also thankful to those helping Find & Connect 29 organize the practical matters required to pull off such an important event, including the student volunteer chairs Sidhant Gupta and Jia Jia, the access chairs Jennifer A. Rode and Qiong Wu, the industrial exhibition Network Access 29 chair Yuan Dong, the treasurer Pin Tao, the web masters Guoliang Li and Yue Suo, and the publicity chairs Restaurants 29 Jiannong Cao and Henriette Cramer. Organizing Committee 30 We also want to thank the technical program committee, including the workshop chairs Katie Siek and Zhi- Sponsors & Supporters 31 wen Yu, the posters chairs Mike Chen and Tim Sohn, the demos chairs Darren Edge and Yongqiang Lv, the doctoral colloquium chairs Anind Dey and Cho-li Wang, the video chairs Jiming Guo, Julie Maitland and Gang Pan, the tutorials chairs Cecilia Mascolo and Daqing Zhang, the panel chair Beth Mynatt, and the film festival chairs Ian Li and Jun Fei. Finally, a special thanks to our publication chairs Beihong Jin and Sian Lindley, assist- ed by Lisa Tolles from Sheridan Printing Company, all of whom have processed the papers in a timely manner. Finally, we wish to thank all the UbiComp 2011 attendees for supporting the conference and making it one of the most prestigious events in this field. We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought provoking and that the conference will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world. James Landay and Yuanchun Shi UbiComp 2011 General Co-Chairs 1 Program at a Glance Detailed Papers / Video Program Sep. 17 Saturday Sep. 18 Sunday Sep. 19 Monday Sep. 20 Tuesday Sep. 21 Wednesday Session 1 - Being Human Monday, September 19, 10:30-12:00 Academy of Arts & Design Academy of Arts & Design The Main Building The Main Building The Main Building Chair: A.J. Brush, Microsoft Research 7:30 Registration 8:00 Registration Registration Registration Registration 8:30 Opening Tutorials and Doctoral Session 4 Session 7 Smiling Makes Us Happier: Enhancing Positive Mood and Communication with Smile-Encouraging Digital 9:00 Colloquium Workshops Keynote Near and Far Home and Away Appliances 9:30 Hitomi Tsujita, Jun Rekimoto 10:00 10:30 How to Nudge In Situ: Designing Lambent Devices to Deliver Salience Information in Supermarkets Tutorials and Doctoral Session 1 Session 8 11:00 Workshops Panel Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Yvonne Rogers, Jon Bird, Nicolas Villar, Khaled Bachour, Stephen Payne, Peter M. Todd, Johannes Colloquium Being Human Energy and Networking 11:30 Schöning, Antonio Krüger, Stefan Kreitmayer 12:00 12:30 CoDine: An Interactive Multi-sensory System for Remote Dining Lunch Lunch Lunch/ Poster Session Lunch/Demo Session 1 Lunch/Demo Session 2 13:00 Jun Wei, Xuan Wang, Roshan Lalintha Peiris, Yongsoon Choi, Xavier Roman Martinez, Remi Tache, Jeffrey Tzu 13:30 Kwan Valino Koh, Veronica Halupka, Adrian David Cheok 14:00 Tutorials and Doctoral Session 2 Session 5 Session 9 Promoting Intergenerational Communication Through Location-Based Asynchronous Video Communication 14:30 Workshops Colloquium Novel Ubiquitous Technologies How Close? How Healthy? Frank Bentley, Santosh Basapur, Sujoy Kumar Chowdhury 15:00 15:30 Session 6 Living in a Glass House: A Survey of Private Moments in the Home 16:00 Tutorials and Doctoral Session 3 DIY and Design Session 10 Eun Kyoung Choe, Sunny Consolvo, Jaeyeon Jung, Beverly Harrison, Julie A. Kientz 16:30 Colloquium On the Move Measuring and Understanding 17:00 Workshops Transport FlyingBuddy: Augment Human Mobility and Perceptibility 17:30 Break Townhall Meeting Dan He, Haoyi Ren, Weidong Hua, Gang Pan, Shijian Li, Zhaohui Wu 18:00 Closing Video Contest 18:30 Ready-To-Live: Wearable Computing Meets Fashion Mirco Rossi, Burcu Cinaz, Gerhard Tröster 19:00 Transport Banquet 19:30 Opening Reception (Summer Palace) MSRA Open House 20:00 (MSR Asia) 20:30 Session 2 - Novel Ubiquitous Technologies Monday, September 19, 14:00-15:30 Chair: Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research Asia Leveraging Conductive Inkjet Technology to Build a Scalable and Versatile Surface for Ubiquitous Sensing Nan-Wei Gong, Steve Hodges, Joseph A. Paradiso HeatProbe: A Thermal-based Power Meter for Accounting Disaggregated Electricity Usage Bo-Jhang Ho, Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao, Nan-Chen Chen, Chuang-Wen You, Hao-Hua Chu, Ming-Syan Chen There will be a 15 minutes break between Session 5 and Session 6. Session 6 starts at 15:45 pm. adjunct video presentation 2 3 LightWave: Using Compact Fluorescent Lights as Sensors Haptic Reassurance in the Pitch Black for an Immersive Theatre Experience Sidhant Gupta, Ke-Yu Chen, Matthew S. Reynolds, Shwetak N. Patel Janet van der Linden, Yvonne Rogers, Maria Oshodi, Adam Spiers, David McGoran, Rafael Cronin, Paul O’Dowd Interactive 3D Modeling of Indoor Environments with a Consumer Depth Camera When Recommendation Meets Mobile: Contextual and Personalized Recommendation On The Go Hao Du, Peter Henry, Xiaofeng Ren, Marvin Cheng, Dan B Goldman, Steven M. Seitz, Dieter Fox Jinfeng Zhuang, Tao Mei, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying-Qing Xu, Shipeng Li Tactile Feedback without a Big Fuss: Simple Actuators for High-Resolution Phantom Sensations Getting Closer: An Empirical Investigation of the Proximity of User to Their Smart Phones Hendrik Richter, Benedikt Blaha, Alexander Wiethoff, Dominikus Baur, Andreas Butz Anind K. Dey, Katarzyna Wac, Denzil Ferreira, Kevin Tassini, Jin-Hyuk Hong, Julian Ramos Lighting Choreographer: an LED Control System for Dance Performances The Danger of Loose Objects in the Car: Challenges and Opportunities for Ubiquitous Computing Minoru Fujimoto, Naotaka Fujita, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto Daniel Avrahami, Michael Yeganyan, Anthony LaMarca Qviz: Visualizer of Ramen Queues A Ubiquitous Wireless Video Surveillance System Based on Pub/Sub Kazumasa Oshima, Niwat Thepvilojanapong, Yuta Iwasawa, Tatsuya Morita, Yoshito Tobe Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Steven Lai, Yang Zou, Jun Zhang, Yang Liu, Chisheng Zhang Session 3 - On the Move Session 5 - How Close? Monday, September 19, 16:00-17:30 Tuesday, September 20, 14:00-15:30 Chair: Shwetak Patel, University of Washington Chair: Adrian Friday, Lancaster University Urban Computing with Taxicabs Who’s your best friend? Targeted privacy attacks in location-sharing social networks Yu Zheng, Yanchi Liu, Jing Yuan, Xing Xie Vassilis Kostakos, Jayant Venkatanathan, Bernardo Reynolds, Norman Sadeh, Eran Toch, Siraj A. Shaikh, Simon Jones iBAT: Detecting Anomalous Taxi Trajectories from GPS Traces Daqing Zhang, Nan Li, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Chao Chen, Lin Sun, Shijian Li On the Limitations of Query Obfuscation Techniques for Location Privacy Sai Teja Peddinti, Nitesh Saxena Where to Find My Next Passenger? Jing Yuan, Yu Zheng, Liuhang Zhang, Xing Xie, Guangzhong Sun Are you close with me? Are you nearby? Investigating social groups, closeness, and willingness to share Jason Wiese, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Laura Dabbish, Jason I. Hong, John Zimmerman Out of the Lab and Into the Woods: Kinematic Analysis in Running Using Wearable Sensors Christina Strohrmann, Holger Harms, Gerhard Troster, Stefanie Hensler, Roland Muller Understanding How Visual Representations of Location Feeds Affect End-User Privacy Concerns Karen P. Tang, Jason I. Hong, Daniel P. Siewiorek Route Classification using Cellular Handoff Patterns Richard A. Becker, Ramon Caceres, Karrie Hanson, Ji Meng Loh, Simon Urbanek, Alexander Varshavsky and Chris Employing User Feedback for Semantic Location Services Volinsky Donnie H. Kim, Kyungsik Han, Deborah Estrin Ubira: A Mobile Platform for an Integrated Online/Offline Shopping Experience Udana Bandara, James Chen Session 6 - DIY and Design Tuesday, September 20, 15:45-17:15 Session 4 - Near and Far Chair: Scott Saponas, Microsoft Research Tuesday, September 20, 8:30-10:00 Chair: Patrick L.
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