TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Egla, Tareg A1 - Marquardt, Nicolai T1 - Sens-ation: A Service-Oriented Platform for Developing Sensor-Based Infrastructures N2 - In today’s information society the vast technical progress and the sinking cost of information and communication technology provide new opportunities for information supply, and new technical support for communication and cooperation over distance. These trends also entail challenges such as supplying information that is adequate for a particular person in a specific situation as well as managing communication among geographically distributed parties efficiently. Context-aware systems that use sensors in order to analyse their environment and to adapt their behaviour. Yet, adequate tools for developing sensor-based infrastructures are missing. We have designed and developed Sens-ation, an open and generic service-oriented platform, which provides powerful, yet easy-to-use, tools to software developers who want to develop context-aware, sensor-based infrastructures. The service-oriented paradigm of Sens-ation enables standardised communication within individual infrastructures, between infrastructures and their sensors, but also among distributed infrastructures. On a whole, Sens-ation facilitates the development allowing developers to concentrate on the semantics of their infrastructures, and to develop innovative concepts and implementations of context-aware systems. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Service-orientierte Plattform KW - Sensor-basierte Infrastrukture KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work KW - Service-Oriented Platform KW - Sensor-Based Infrastructure KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7447 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Oemig, Christoph T1 - Presence, Privacy, and PRIMIFaces: Towards Selective Information Disclosure in Instant Messaging N2 - Efficient distant cooperation often requires spontaneous ad-hoc social interaction, which is only possible with adequate information on the prospective communication partner. This often requires disclosing and sharing personal information via tools such as instant messaging systems and can conflict with the users’ wishes for privacy. In this paper we present an initial study investigating this trade-off and discuss implications for the design of instant messaging systems. We present the functionality and design of the PRIMIFaces instant messaging prototype supporting flexible identity management and selective information disclosure. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Awareness KW - Gruppengewahrsein KW - Privatsphäre KW - Reziprozität KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Awareness KW - Group Awareness KW - Privacy KW - Reciprocity KW - Ubiquitous Computing Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20080314-13452 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Williams, Alena T1 - Movement in vision : architecture and László Moholy-Nagy's Light-Space modulator N2 - Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium vom 19. bis 22. April 2007 in Weimar an der Bauhaus-Universität zum Thema: ‚Die Realität des Imaginären. Architektur und das digitale Bild’ T3 - Schriften der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - 120/49 KW - Architektur KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Design KW - Raum KW - Bild KW - Digitalisierung KW - Moholy-Nagy KW - László KW - Bauhaus-Kolloquium KW - Weimar KW - 2007 Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20080728-13693 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Beckmann, Christoph T1 - CoLocScribe: A Media Space for Information Disclosure in Storytelling N2 - Digital storytelling of remote social interaction, where the situation of a remote group distributed over two locations is captured and a story is generated for later retrieval, can provide valuable insight into the structure and processes in a group. Yet, capturing these situations is a challenge—both from a technical perspective, and from a social perspective. In this paper we present CoLocScribe: a concept and prototype of an advanced media space featuring ubiquitous computing technology for capturing remote social interaction as well as a study of its use providing valuable feedback for the captured persons as well as input for the authors. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work KW - Media Space KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work KW - Media Space Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20081103-14361 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Marquardt, Nicolai T1 - CollaborationBus: An Editor for the Easy Configuration of Complex Ubiquitous Environment N2 - Early sensor-based infrastructures were often developed by experts with a thorough knowledge of base technology for sensing information, for processing the captured data, and for adapting the system’s behaviour accordingly. In this paper we argue that also end-users should be able to configure Ubiquitous Computing environments. We introduce the CollaborationBus application: a graphical editor that provides abstractions from base technology and thereby allows multifarious users to configure Ubiquitous Computing environments. By composing pipelines users can easily specify the information flows from selected sensors via optional filters for processing the sensor data to actuators changing the system behaviour according to the users’ wishes. Users can compose pipelines for both home and work environments. An integrated sharing mechanism allows them to share their own compositions, and to reuse and build upon others’ compositions. Real-time visualisations help them understand how the information flows through their pipelines. In this paper we present the concept, implementation, and early user feedback of the CollaborationBus application. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Editor KW - Konfiguration KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - editor KW - configuration Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7463 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Schirmer, Maximilian T1 - CollaborationBus Aqua: An Editor for Storytelling in Mixed Reality Settings N2 - Capturing the interaction of users in a room based on real-world and electronic sensors provides valuable input for their interactive stories. However, in such complex scenarios there is a gap between the huge amount of rather fine-grained data that is captured and the story summarising and representing the most significant aspects of the interaction. In this paper we present the CollaborationBus Aqua editor that provides an easy to use graphical editor for capturing, authoring, and sharing stories based on mixed-reality scenarios. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work KW - Editor KW - Konfiguration KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work KW - Editor KW - configuration Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20081103-14359 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Gross, Tom A1 - Fetter, Mirko A1 - Seifert, Julian T1 - CoDaMine: Supporting Privacy and Trust Management in Ubiquitous Environments Through Communication Data Mining N2 - In ubiquitous environments an increasing number of sensors capture information on users and at the same time an increasing number of actuators are available to present information to users. This vast capturing of information potentially enables the system to adapt to the users. At the same time the system might violate the users' privacy by capturing information that the users do not want to share, and the system might disrupt the users by being too obtrusive in its adaptation or information supply. In this paper we present CoDaMine - a novel approach for providing users with system - generated feedback and control in ubiquitous environments giving them the freedom they need while reducing their effort. Basically, CoDaMine captures and analyses the users' online communication to learn about their social relationships in order to provide them with recommendations for inter-personal privacy and trust management. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Awareness KW - Gruppengewahrsein KW - Privatsphäre KW - Reziprozität KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Awareness KW - Group Awareness KW - Privacy KW - Reciprocity KW - Ubiquitous Computing Y1 - 2007 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-8154 ER - TY - THES A1 - Bruns, Erich T1 - Adaptive Image Classification on Mobile Phones N2 - The advent of high-performance mobile phones has opened up the opportunity to develop new context-aware applications for everyday life. In particular, applications for context-aware information retrieval in conjunction with image-based object recognition have become a focal area of recent research. In this thesis we introduce an adaptive mobile museum guidance system that allows visitors in a museum to identify exhibits by taking a picture with their mobile phone. Besides approaches to object recognition, we present different adaptation techniques that improve classification performance. After providing a comprehensive background of context-aware mobile information systems in general, we present an on-device object recognition algorithm and show how its classification performance can be improved by capturing multiple images of a single exhibit. To accomplish this, we combine the classification results of the individual pictures and consider the perspective relations among the retrieved database images. In order to identify multiple exhibits in pictures we present an approach that uses the spatial relationships among the objects in images. They make it possible to infer and validate the locations of undetected objects relative to the detected ones and additionally improve classification performance. To cope with environmental influences, we introduce an adaptation technique that establishes ad-hoc wireless networks among the visitors’ mobile devices to exchange classification data. This ensures constant classification rates under varying illumination levels and changing object placement. Finally, in addition to localization using RF-technology, we present an adaptation technique that uses user-generated spatio-temporal pathway data for person movement prediction. Based on the history of previously visited exhibits, the algorithm determines possible future locations and incorporates these predictions into the object classification process. This increases classification performance and offers benefits comparable to traditional localization approaches but without the need for additional hardware. Through multiple field studies and laboratory experiments we demonstrate the benefits of each approach and show how they influence the overall classification rate. N2 - Die Einführung von Mobiltelefonen mit eingebauten Sensoren wie Kameras, GPS oder Beschleunigungssensoren, sowie Kommunikationstechniken wie Bluetooth oder WLAN ermöglicht die Entwicklung neuer kontextsensitiver Anwendungen für das tägliche Leben. Insbesondere Applikationen im Bereich kontextsensitiver Informationsbeschaffung in Verbindung mit bildbasierter Objekterkennung sind in den Fokus der aktuellen Forschung geraten. Der Beitrag dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines bildbasierten, mobilen Museumsführersystems, welches unterschiedliche Adaptionstechniken verwendet, um die Objekterkennung zu verbessern. Es wird gezeigt, wie Ojekterkennungsalgorithmen auf Mobiltelefonen realisiert werden können und wie die Erkennungsrate verbessert wird, indem man zum Beispiel ad-hoc Netzwerke einsetzt oder Bewegungsvorhersagen von Personen berücksichtigt. T2 - Adaptive Bilderkennung auf Mobiltelefonen KW - Kontextbezogenes System KW - Bilderkennung KW - Ubiquitous Computing KW - Mobile Computing KW - Maschinelles Sehen KW - Museumsführer KW - Handy KW - Wegrouten KW - Positionsbestimmung KW - PhoneGuide KW - Bluetooth tracking KW - pathway awareness KW - museum guidance system KW - PhoneGuide Y1 - 2010 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100707-15092 ER -