Organizer
Andreas Zimmermann
Andreas works as a senior researcher in the department Information in Context at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) in Sankt Augustin (Germany). He has a strong research background in context-aware computing and artificial intelligence, and his further research interests include areas such as nomadic systems and end-user control of ubiquitous computing environments. Within the scope of two European projects he currently manages, he is responsible for the user-centred design process and for the design of software architectures.
Niels Henze
Niels is working as a researcher and PhD student in the Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems Group of the University of Oldenburg (Germany). He is involved in the Intelligent User Interfaces group at the research institute OFFIS. He worked for some national and European research projects and is currently involved in the European project InterMedia. He is interested in interaction with media using mobile devices and advances in accessing digital information using real world entities. Among his other research interests are tactile interaction and accessibility.
Xavier Righetti
Xavier is a research assistant and PhD student in the Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at Ecole Polytechniques Fédérales de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He is currently involved in the European Network of Excellence Intermedia in which he focuses on the design and development of modular wearable components for user input / output, processing and storage. His vision is the usage of wearable devices on demand and their ad-hoc collaboration once worn by a user.
Enrico Rukzio
Enrico is working as an academic fellow and lecturer at the Computing Department at Lancaster University. Enrico’s research interests are physical mobile interactions and applications as well as context-aware mobile services. Enrico believes that mobile devices which were so far mostly used for interactions between the user and the device itself will more and more be used for interactions with objects in the real world. Currently he works new interaction techniques for projector phones and mobile interactions with floor displays, interactive surfaces and public displays.