Research Activities

Awards

• Best Short Paper Award at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2008:

  C. Barbu and A. Kröner

  Designing A Study Concerning The Functions Of Sharable Personal Memories. In Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2008, pp. 478-482, Freiburg, Germany, 2008. ISBN: 978-972-8924-68-3.

  Abstract
  User support for shopping trips is a vivid area of research. With respect to the increasing use of sensor technology in this domain, it is of interest how a user may benefit from automatically captured data describing her or other people's shopping actions. In this article, we report on a study concerning the sharing of so-called digital memories during grocery shopping. Our report comprises a brief description of a software-based shopping environment used to observe and support users, a discussion of our hypotheses regarding the application of digital memories in this setting, the study method, and a first preview on results achieved this way.
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• Best Paper Award at the Intelligent Environment Conference 2008 (IE08):

  M. Schneider and A. Kröner

  The Smart Pizza Packing: An Application of Object Memories. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2008), Seattle, USA, 2008.

  Abstract
  Smart objects are a promising way to achieve digital support for our daily life. However, despite the constantly decreasing manufacturing costs of electronic components, complex embedded systems are still too expensive in relation to the price of most everyday objects. In this paper we demonstrate, how complex applications can still be realized with cheap and weakly instrumented smart objects by establishing so-called object memories and consequently exploiting the capabilities present in the static environment to use and update this memory. We illustrate this idea with a concrete application scenario, in which we accompany a frozen pizza through selected stages of its lifecycle. We report on requirements regarding technology and memory content, and describe our memory framework implementation as well as two hardware demonstrators from the smart home domain.
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• A scholarship for two years granted by the Landesgraduiertenförderung of the federal state Saarland for the Ph.D. thesis on Adaptive Layout of Dynamic Web Pages.

Teaching

• Linking Virtual and Real World through Android Applications. Seminar at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, SS 2011.
• Developing Android Applications to Digitize Your Life!. Seminar at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, WS 2010/2011.
• Digital Lifelogs. Proseminar at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, WS 2009/2010.
• XSL: XSL-FO, XPath und XSLT. Invited lecture at the FH Trier, Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Germany, July 1, 2008.
• Aufbau und Visualisierung eines Digitalen Gedächtnisses. Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, WS 2006/07.
• Entwicklung eines Editors zur Personalisierung des Layouts von Webseiten. Fortgeschrittenenpraktikum at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University, WS 2001/02.

Talks

• W3C Object Memory Modeling. Talk at a working meeting of the AIM European RFID Experts Group, Frankfurt, October 4, 2011.
• IKT für Ressourcenschonende Produktion. Talk at the acatech Workshop "Entkopplung von Wachstum und Ressourcenverbrauch", Berlin, September 21, 2011.
• Aufbau und Nutzung digitaler Produktgedächtnisse entlang der Supply Chain. Talk at the 1st SmartFactoryKL Innovation Day, Kaiserslautern, October 1, 2009.
• SemProM - Produkte führen Tagebuch. Talk at the "Future Talk" of CeBIT 2009, Hannover, March 3, 2009.
• Digitale Gedächtnisse im Dienste des Verbrauchers. Invited talk at the 8th VMI (Visual Merchandising Initiative) Conference, St. Wendel, December 3, 2008.
• SemProM: Digitales Produktgedächtnis - Produkte führen Tagebuch. Invited talk at the BvDP Zukunftsdialog 2008: Postdienstleistungen - Systemlösungen zur Prozessinnovation, Bonn, November 13, 2008.
• Digitales Produktgedächtnis. Invited talk at the symposium on Digitale Daten in Geräten und Systemen, Erlangen, September 12, 2008.
• Panel discussion on Ambient Assisted Living at the 7th Multimediacongress of Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 30, 2008
• SPECTER: Building, Exploiting, and Sharing Augmented Memories. Invited talk at the Workshop on Knowledge Sharing for Everyday Life (KSEL 2006). Kyoto, Japan, February 9, 2006.

Memberships

• Chair of the W3C Object Memory Modeling Incubator Group (OMM XG)
• Chair of the EIT Workshop on Digital Lifelogs in Everyday Environments 2010
• Co-chairing: International workshop on Networking and Object Memories in the Internet of Things (NOMe-IoT 2011) in conjunction with UbiComp 2011
• Co-chairing: International workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things (DOME-IoT 2010) in conjunction with UbiComp 2010
• Co-chairing: 1st workshop on Digital Object Memories (DOMe 2009) at the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
• Co-chairing: UM 2007 workshop on Data Mining for User Modeling (K-DUUM/EDM)
• Co-chairing: LWA 2005
• Program committee: International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE) 2010
• Program committee: IADIS International Conference Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI) 2009, 2010, 2011
• Program committee: Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects (InterSO) 2011, 2012
• Program committee: AH 2008 Workshop on User Model Integration (UMI 2008) UMI 2008
• Program committee: Workshop on Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling (UbiDeUM) 2007
• Program committee: International Workshop on Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP) 2006, 2008
• Program committee: IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2005, 2006 (session chair: XML // Extensible Languages), 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
• Program committee: 14th Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems (ABIS 2006)
• Program committee: ESWC 2006 Workshop on Semantic Web Personalization (SWP)
• Program committee: Workshop on Ubiquitous User Modeling (UbiqUM) 2006, 2008, 2009

Additional Reviewing

• Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal
• C. Mourlas and P. Germanakos (Eds.): Intelligent User Interfaces: Adaptation and Personalization Systems and Technologies, Information Science Reference (Publisher Link)
• IEEE Intelligent Systems journal
• UM 2007
• ABIS 2005
• IUI 2005
• Pervasive 2004
• SIGGRAPH 2003