DFKI's Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL) has prepared a new lecture series - the IRL Forum - for the winter semester 2009/2010, which will address the topic of "AI in the Marketplace". The forum will primarily be held on Tuesdays from 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. at DFKI-Saarbrücken. Guest lecturers will include experts from various fields of study, for example, design, robotics, human-computer interaction, healthcare and behavioral sciences. The public forum is intended not only for a broad audience of specialists but, especially, also for students in the information systems curriculum. Current research issues will be introduced and discussed along with studies having a practical relevance. Diverse areas of application and the challenges facing modern information systems in commerce and trade, logistics, and manufacturing will also be comprehensively addressed. 

Agenda:

20.10.09:  Guiseppe Constanza (freelance designer): “FoodTracer”: Augmented Reality for Food Information Transparency

02.11.09:  D K Arvind: Speckled Computing (Date & location changed: Monday, at 2pm  Room Leibniz)

03.11.09:  Claus Ebster: The Effect of Floor Texture on Consumer Behavior at the Point of Sale & Children's Influences on unplanned purchases at the point of sale

10.11.09  Prof. Michael Feindt (phi-t): NeuroBayes®: Teilchenphysik-Algorithmen für den Handel.

08.12.09:  Norbert Rösch (Project manager biomedical engineering and

                 Public Health): Wikifood

15.12.09: Prof. Sarah Spiekermann (Institute for Management Information Systems,

                Vienna): About the Adoption of Ubiquitous Computing & the Role of Privacy in Electronic Transactions

26.01.10:  Reiner Jedermann (Institute for Microsensors, -actors and –systems

                (IMSAS), Bremen): The intelligent container project.