Demonstration session
By following the success of similar events at previous PerCom conferences, a separate session has been designated at PerCom 2006 for technology demonstrations and industrial exhibits. The demonstrations are scheduled for Tuesday, March 14 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at the PerCom Conference Center as part of the welcome reception. This arrangement follows a successful PerCom tradition, and allows all conference attendees an opportunity to interact closely with the presenters in a casual and relaxed environment. This offers a unique opportunity to showcase and discuss emerging technologies and recent research prototypes with leading engineers and researchers in the field. We received an unprecedented number of submissions (more than 25) and in spite of significantly expanding the number of accepted demos (from under 10 at prior PerCom conferences to 14 at PerCom 2006) we were unable to accommodate all of the interesting proposals. Given the unprecedented number and quality of the demos submitted, we are happy to announce the institution of the Best Demo Award (BDA), which will be presented during the PerCom 2006 Award session.
Luciano Bononi and Vipul Gupta
(PerCom 2006 Demonstration co-Chairs)
List of accepted demos:
D1) Middleware technologies to integrate heterogeneous CE devices and simplify user activities
Alan Messer, Anugeetha Kunjithapatham, Mithun Sheshagiri, Henry Song, Phuong Nguyen (Samsung Information Systems Americ, San Jose, CA) Praveen Kumar (Individual contributor, San Jose, CA), Kyoung Hoon Yi (Samsung Software Center, Seoul, S. Korea)
D2) Eco: Ultra-Wearable and Expandable Wireless Sensor Platform
Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou (Center for Embedded Computing Systems, University of California, Irvine, CA, http://embedded.ece.uci.edu/~kilby/eco.htm)
D3) An Ambient Intelligence based System for the home monitoring and care of elderly people integrated with the Digital TV
Riccardo Fontanelli, Davide Guerri, Vincenzo Cestone (Synapsis S.r.l.) Giuliano Benelli, Gianluca Daino, Fabio Burroni (University of Siena) Maria Chiara Carrozza, Andrea Pisetta, Cecilia Laschi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa)
D4) Proxy-based Migration of Web User Interfaces in Environments with Desktop and Mobile Devices
Bandelloni Renata, Mori Giulio, Paterno' Fabio (ISTI-CNR)
D5) Bringing Group-Communication Applications to MANET users through Cross-layer P2P technologies
Jon Crowcroft, Andrea Passarella (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK), Franca Delmastro (IIT Institute, CNR, Pisa, Italy)
D6) Interaction with a Smart Espresso Machine
Gerhard Austaller, Erwin Aitenbichler, Jussi Kangasharju (Telecoopertion Group, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, http://www.tk.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/PimpMySaeco)
D7) WPAN effectiveness for sensors-based activity recognition
Luca Roffia, Marina Pettinari, Giuseppe Raffa, Tullio Salmon Cinotti (ARCES - University of Bologna, Italy)
D8) Three Devices for Tackling Practical Problems in Pervasive Computing
Shigemi Ishida, Masateru Minami, Youhei Nishizawa, Takashi Morito, Yusuke Moriyama (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Shibaura, Minato-ku Tokyo, Japan) Hiroyuki Morikawa, Tomonori Aoyama (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
D9) Just-in-time Service Composition in Pervasive Environments
Swaroop Kalasapur (PhD candidate), Kumarvel Senthivel, Brent Lagesse, Mohan Kumar (Dept of CSE, UT Arlington, USA, http://www.cse.uta.edu/pico@cse/picodemo.asp)
D10) Investigating Marker-Based Vision System Design
Andrew C. Rice, Alastair R. Beresford, Robert K. Harle (University of Cambridge, UK)
D11) 3PC/MarNET Pervasive Presenter
Stephan Urbanski, Marcus Handte, Christian Becker (Universitt Stuttgart, Germany), Patrick Reinhardt, Michael Engel, Matthew Smith (Universitt Marburg, Germany, http://ds.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/de/research/project.php?name=routing)
D12) A Ubiquitous Intuitive Interaction with a Wearable Computer
Jong-Woon Yoo, Ki-Woong Park, Seung-Ho Lim, Ju-Pyung Lee, Hyun-Jin Chio, Kyu-Ho Park (Computer Engineering Research Laboratory, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, URL: http://core.kaist.ac.kr/UFC/iiufcdemo.html)
D13) Wireless Rope: Experiment in Social Proximity Sensing with Bluetooth
Tom Nicolai, Nils Behrens (Universitaet Bremen, TZI, Center for Computing Technologies, Bremen, Germany), Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK)
D14) Middleware for Distributed Services and Mobile Applications
Jorge Parra, Aitor Uribarren, J.P.Uribe, Kepa Makibar (Software Technologies Area, Ikerlan, Spain