Call for Participation MANSE'99
Gerard Lacey
This may be of interest to those working on tracking or vision for HCI.
cheers
Gerard Lacey, Trinity College, Dublin.
gerard...@cs.tcd.ie
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MANaging interactions in Smart Environments (MANSE'99)
A two-day interdisplinary workshop
Call for participation
December 13-14 1999
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Theme
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Research into Smart Buildings and Spaces has increased rapidly over
the last few years. Active buildings promise to give greater access
and usability to both able bodied and disabled people at work or at
home. Such intelligent environments require research that addresses
the interactions between many heterogeneous systems: between systems
and networks, and between people and systems.
Smart Environments will perform planning tasks such as suggesting
routes through the building to visitors, perception tasks such gesture
and face recognition, action tasks such as calling lifts for robots,
and software tasks such as managing the massive event reporting such
real-world systems will generate. Facilitating this interaction
requires the development of a variety of software infrastructures from
support for actuators and sensors, through novel control and
interaction interfaces, to distributed systems support. Such
infrastructures cannot be developed in isolation of the problem
domains.
This workshop aims to address the convergence of research in
Distributed Systems, Robotics and Human Centred Computing within the
domain of smart buildings and present a unique opportunity to
investigate work that crosses the boundaries of these disciplines.
Therefore, papers are solicited that reflect this goal and which
address the problems of building software and hardware infrastructures
for smart environments.
List of papers
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Invited talks
Recognition of multi-person action
Aaron Bobick, Georgia Tech
Ten dimensions of ubiquitous computing
Steve Shafer, Microsoft Research
Refereed papers
Tracking fingers and hands with a rigid contour
model in an augmented reality
Daniela Hall and James Crowley, Inria Rhône-Alpes
Combining audio and video in perceptive spaces
Christopher Wren, Sumit Basu, Flavia Sparacino and Alex Pentland,
MIT
Intelligent kinetic systems
Michael Fox and Bryant Yeh, MIT
SmartOffice : An Intelligent and Interactive Environment
Christophe Le Gal, Jérôme Martin and Guillaume
Durand, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
A context-based infrastructure for smart environments
Anind Dey, Gregory Abowd and Daniel Salber, Georgia Tech
Two aspects of multiple mobile robots: a parallel
architecture and an autonomous navigation strategy
Stasha Lauria, Grant Foster and W Hardin, University of Reading
Reality and virtual reality in mobile robotics
Brian Duffy, University College Dublin
An integrated system for managing intelligent buildings
Tim Walsh, Paddy Nixon and Simon Dobson, TCD
Real + virtual = clever: thoughts on programming
smart environments
Mads Haahr, Vinny Cahill, TCD, and Eric Jul, DIKU
A Ubiquitous Computing Communication and Management Architecture
Markus Laufe, University of Karlsruhe
Meeting the computational needs of intelligent environments: the
MetaGlue environment
Michael Coen, Brenton Philips, Nimrod Warshawshy and Luke Weisman,
MIT
Learning spatial event models from multiple-camera perspectives
in an intelligent room
Michael Coen and Kevin Wilson, MIT
Designing for Local Interaction
Johan Redström, Per Dahlberg, Peter Ljungstrand and
Lars Erik Holmquist, The Viktoria Institute
The SCD architecture and its use in the design of story-driven
interactive spaces
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research
A tourist-centric mechanism for inteacting with the environment
Michael O'Grady, Ronan O'Rafferty and Gregory O'Hare,
University College Dublin
A context sensitive natrual language modality for an intelligent
room
Michael Coen, Luke Weisman, Kavita Thomas and Marion Groh, MIT
Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in a Smart Environment
Michael Beigl and Hans-Werner Gellerson, University of Karlsruhe
The full proceedings of the workshop, including all papers and talks
by the invited speakers, will be available in a volume by Springer
Verlag - a copy of which will be distributed to each attendee.
Location
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Trinity College is a located in the heart of Dublin City. It is the
sole college of the University of Dublin founded in 1592. The campus
is one of Irelands leading historical sites attracting over half a
million tourists every year to attractions such as the Book of Kells
and The Long Room of the Old Library. Tours of the campus and a
conference banquet in Dublin Castle will be included as part of the
workshop.
Registration and accommodation
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Registration for the workshop costs IEP250 for delegates registering
before 31 October, IEP270 for later registration, and IEP100 for
full-time students. The registration form is available on the web at
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/MANSE99/manse_reg.html
We can accept Visa, Masterdcard, and cheques drawn on Irish banks in
Irish pounds.
A workshop deal is also available with Jury's Hotel, beside Dublin's
Christchurch cathedral. Information is avaulable at
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/MANSE99/hotels.html
Any enquiries should be directed to Dr Simon Dobson
(simon....@cs.tcd.ie).
Organisation
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Local Organising Committee
Paddy Nixon, paddy...@cd.tcd.ie
Gerard Lacey, gerard...@cs.tcd.ie
Simon Dobson, simon....@cs.tcd.ie
International Programme Committee
James L. Crowley (INPG, France)
Paulo Dario (SSSA, Italy)
Helder Araújo (ISR, Portugal)
Claudio Pinhanez (MIT, USA)
Grant Foster (UR, UK)
John Byrne (TCD, Ireland)
Ian Pratt (Cambridge, UK)
Kent Larson (MIT, USA)
Alastair Edwards (UY, UK)
James Ferryman (UR, UK)
Stefan Junestrand (KTH, SE)
Nikos Katevas (Zenon,GR)
Sponsors
Semi-Autonomous Monitoring and Robotics Technology
TMR Network
Mobile Robotics Technology for Health Care Services
Research TMR Network
European Office of Aerospace Research and Development