info visualization
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Showing how many people are in the room. Not sure what other parameters are at play.

context photography
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From viktoria institute in sweden. A very poetic way to capture the context ‘metadata’ in the image.

elevator pitch
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Each poster or demo presenter was given 1min to promote their work. Good overview + show (sometimes entertaining).

network robots
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Robovie (can maintain eye contacts) and apri-alpha by ATR.

kddi home networking system
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Controlling home stuff w mobile.

info delivery system
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Using the felica ic card to retrieve information.br clear=”all” />

Ubicomp- capture-resistant environment
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Preventing camera recording by designing a capture-resistant environment, presented by khai truong. Instead of making the camera device handicapped, this paper presents an idea to utilize ‘camera neutralizer’ to create a capture-resistance environment instead. This technique uses the ‘retro-reflection property’ of the CCD sensor of digital cameras.

ubicomp- analysis of chewing sounds
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Analysis of chewing sounds for dietary monitoring, presented by oliver amft. An interesting idea to make use of the sensor functions. The research work is not addressing how it can be made effective or as an application to assist people to watch the weight and therefore raises many unanswered questions but certainly proposes a very different way to approach the obesity problem. Looking forward to more.

deprived (of) ubicomp environment
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Come on! Not even wired broadband? Now i understand why people are gathered at the lobby. It was certainly not because the geeks all of a sudden decided to socialize.