PD-NET - Key Persons
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- Research Assistant at University Duisburg - Essen
Dominik Bial is a student and research assistant at University Duisburg-Essen. During his first years at university he was employed by the IT company Four2b as a working student. There he developed JavaME/J2EE applications and was also responsible for Server administration. Since March 2008 he worked as a student assistant in Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt's team until he became a research assistant in April 2010. From September 2009 to February 2010 he visited Lancaster University where he wrote his Bachelor thesis about bimanual interaction with touchpad and mouse. At the moment Dominik is mainly interested in public display architectures and interaction as well as mobile services.
Dr. Rui José will lead the participation of the University of Minho in this project. He is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems and has been actively involved in Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, having been involved in several European Projects in this field. In 2007, he worked as visiting researcher at Microsoft Research and he was one of the contributors for the HCI2020 report on the future of HCI. Situated Displays are currently his main research interest and he has been since its beginning the leader of the Research Program on Situated Displays at UDM.
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- Assistant Professor at the University of Minho
Helena Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minho in Portugal. She did her undergraduate studies and received her MSC degree in Computer Science at Universidade do Minho, Portugal. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Kent, UK, in 1998. Her current research interests include methodologies and platforms for the development of applications for Smart Spaces. She is the coordinator of the Research Program on System Support for Smart Spaces that aims to develop and evaluate a new concept on system support that can serve as an infrastructure that is able to integrate physical co-located resources and globally available resources for enabling situation-aware user interactions in smart places. Helena Rodrigues has participated in several Program Committees of International conferences, has participated in several research projects in the field of Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing and is currently involved in MSc and PhD courses in the field.
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- Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Lancaster University
Nigel Davies is a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Lancaster University. His research focuses on the challenges of creating deployable mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. He has led pioneering work on the topic in the GUIDE project, one of the first large scale experiments of a location-based context aware city guide; this remains the most comprehensive research project of its kind and is among the most widely cited projects in the field. Prof. Davies has held visiting positions internationally and from 2001-4 also was an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona. He has extensive experience of managing research grants. Prof Davies is an Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Magazine.
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- Chairman of Human Computer Interaction at the University of Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Albrecht Schmidt holds a chair for Human Computer Interaction at the University of Stuttgart. Previously he was professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at University of Duisburg-Essen and for Mediainformatics at University of Bonn. In 2007 he was head of department at the Fraunhofer institute for intelligent information and analysis systems (IAIS). From 2003 to 2006 he headed the embedded interaction research group at the University of Munich driving user friendly ubiquitous computing systems. He is working and has worked on several European projects (e.g. PDnet, Smart-Its, TEA) and acted as reviewer and expert for the European Commission in the IST context. Albrecht Schmidt is well known and highly cited for his work in creating new interaction techniques and interfaces technologies for mobile and contextual applications. He chaired the Ubicomp, Pervasive and Percom conferences, he co-founded conferences on Automotive User Interfaces in 2009 and on Tangible and Embedded Interaction in 2007, and he is regularly associate chair at the CHI conference and currently involved with organizing the conference on mobile HCI as technical program chair. He is in the steering committee of several conferences in the field of pervasive computing and human computer interaction. Albrecht Schmidt is member of the editorial board and area editor of the IEEE Computer Magazine and he is member of several further editorial boards. Selected publications for Albrecht Schmidt are listed below.
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- Professor of Design at the University of Lancaster
Prof. Rachel Cooper is Professor of Design at the University of Lancaster, where she is Director of Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts and ImaginationLancaster (a centre for research into products, places and systems for the future). Her research interests cover design thinking; design management; design policy; new product development; design in the built environment; design against crime and socially responsible design. She has recently led VivaCity2020 Sustainable Urban Design for the 24 Hour City, a £3m EPSRC funded project over five years looking at Manchester, London and Sheffield, is currently working on Urban Futures, developing alternative scenarios for sustainable regeneration. She has authored several books in the field and is editor for a series on Socially Responsible Design.