About Me I've studied computer science at the Saarland University from 1990 to 2000. My Diploma thesis about automated layout of Yellow Pages was finished in 1996, and followed by my Ph.D. thesis about adaptive layout of Web pages, which I finished in 2000. In 1995 I joined the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbrücken, where I'm working today as Senior Researcher. My general research interests comprise adaptive user interfaces, Semantic Web, and Ubiquitous Computing. Within these areas, I devoted so far special attention to the building and the exploitation digital memories, the related issue user modeling, and methods for adapting layout and style.

Current Projects

• Semantic Product Memory (SemProM): Products keep a diary [home]

Recent Publications

C. Barbu, A. Kröner, M. Schneider, and O. Jacobs

Studying the Functions of Sharable Digital Memories. IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 44-62, 2009.

Abstract
The ongoing augmentation of our everyday environment with digital artifacts and electronic sensors enables machines to observe with increasing precision a user’s interaction with the environment and contained applications. If these observations are recorded over time, then the resulting collection can become a user’s personal “digital memory”. Like a blog, such a semi-automatically built resource can be of interest for sharing information between users. With this article, we want to provide some answers to the question of how people exploit other persons’ digital memories, and how the resulting sharing behavior can be evaluated. We report about two small-scale user studies, which emphasized different aspects of the exploitation of shared personal memories in the everyday. Our report comprises a short description of a platform for collecting and sharing digital memories used in both scenarios, the study methods, and a discussion of the results. These confirm the utility of the respective sharing approaches and provide an insight to people’s expectations concerning the interaction with such a resource.
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A. Kröner, M. Schneider, and J. Mori

A Framework for Ubiquitous Content Sharing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 58-65, 2009.

Abstract
The popularity of the ubiquitous sharing of user-created content motivates the authors to research a general content-sharing framework. They focus on sharing digital memories automatically created by intelligent environments. On the basis of three different application scenarios and several user studies, they provide insight into the framework's basic concepts, including a memory model. They also discuss various kinds of shared content and methods for managing access to such content in the memory model.
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M. Schneider, A. Kröner, J.E. Alvarado, A.G. Higuera, J.C. Augusto, D.J. Cook, V. Ikonen, P. Cech, P. Mikulecký, A. Kameas, and V. Callaghan (Eds.)

Workshops Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments. Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 4, 2009. IOS Press.

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Upcoming and Recent Activities

• Digital Lifelogs. Proseminar at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, WS 2009/2010.
• Co-Chair of the 1st workshop on Digital Object Memories (DOMe 2009) at the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments.
• Aufbau und Nutzung digitaler Produktgedächtnisse entlang der Supply Chain. Talk at the 1st SmartFactoryKL Innovation Day, Kaiserslautern, October 1, 2009.

Non-Research Activities

• Computer graphics / raytracing [home]

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