AIMS 2002

Artificial Intelligence in Mobile System

In conjunction with ECAI 2002
July 22nd, 2002
Lyon, France

Today's information technology is rapidly moving small computerised consumer devices and hi-tech personal appliances from the desks of research labs into sales shelves and our daily life. Various platforms from low performance PDA, embedded computers in cameras, cars, or mobile phones, up to high performance wearable computers will become essential tools in many situations for private and professional use.

Lyon by night :-) These systems require new interaction metaphors and methods of control. Well-known interaction devices, such as mouse and keyboard are not necessarily available, rendering user interfaces that rely on them inappropriate. Other resources such as power or networking bandwidth may be limited or unreliable depending on time and location. Moreover, the physical environment and context are changing rapidly and must be taken into account appropriately. In the future the focus will shift from single users, using single services on single artifacts towards groups of users collaborating using a combination of different services in physical spaces equipped with personal as well as public dynamically configured artifacts (ubiquitous computing or ambient technology).

Therefore, the main challenge for the success of mobile systems is the design of smart user interfaces and software that allows ubiquitous and easy access to personal information and that is flexible enough to handle changes in user context and availability of resources. Artificial intelligence has investigated the problems of making user interfaces smart and cooperative for many years and is attacking the challenges of explicitly dealing with limited resources lately. AI methods provide a range of solutions for those problems and currently seem to be the most promising tools for building location and situation aware mobile systems that support users at their best and behave cooperatively in unobtrusive ways.

AIMS 2002 will be the third workshop in a row as a successor of AIMS 2000 (with ECAI 2000, Berlin) and AIMS 2001 (with IJCAI 01, Seattle) organised by the same persons and institutions.

Scope

In the AIMS 2002 workshop we intend to bring together researchers working in the sub-fields of AI described above and those working with the design of mobile applications and devices (wearable as well as environmental). The scope of interest includes but is not limited to:

Location awareness
Context awareness
Interaction metaphors and interaction devices for mobile /ubiquitous systems
Smart user interfaces for mobile /ubiquitous systems
Multi-modal interfaces for mobile /ubiquitous systems
Situation adapted user interfaces
Adaptation to limited resources
Fault tolerance
Service discovery, service description languages and standards

We encourage submissions from researchers and practitioners in academia,
industry, government, and consulting. Students, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers (max. 8 pages) describing original, novel, and inspirational work. The submissions will be reviewed by an international group of researchers and practitioners.

Submissions should be sent by March 22, 2002
to Antonio Krüger (krueger@cs.uni-sb.de).

Important dates

March 22, 2002: Deadline for submissions to AIMS 2002
April 12, 2002: Notification of acceptance to authors
May 2, 2002: Deadline for camera-ready copies
July 22, 2002: AIMS 2002 workshop at ECAI 02

Organising and Program committee

Organising Committee:

Derek Jacoby (Microsoft Research, USA)
Antonio Krüger (Saarland University, Germany)
Rainer Malaka (European Media Lab)

Program Committe:

Mark Billinghurst (Univeristy of Washington, USA)
Andreas Butz (Eyeled GmbH, Germany)
Keith Cheverst (Lancaster University, UK)
Yun Ding (European Media Lab, Germany)
Tobias Höllerer (Columbia University, USA)
Christian Kray (DFKI, Germany)
Blair MacIntyre (Georgia Tech, USA)
Thomas Rist (DFKI, Germany)
Georg Schneider (University of Trier, Germany)
Sharon Oviatt (Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, USA)
Massimo Zancanaro (IRST, Italy)
Alex Zipf (European Media Lab, Germany)

Call for papers

Location

AIMS 2002 will be held in conjuction with ECAI 2002 the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (July 21-26,2002) that will take place at Lyon, France. More information about the venue can be obtained from the ECAI 2002 webpages

Workshop Programm (pdf)

9:15-10:00	Session 1: Adapting to Limited Technical Resources	Page
09:15	Introductory Remarks
09:30	Resource-adaptive video-streaming for Mobility	1
	Yun Ding, Dennis Pfisterer, Ulrich Walther
09:30	Using Distributed Resources to Enable Smart Mobile Clients	9
	Derek Jacoby
10:00-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:30	Session 2: Context modelling and Intelligent Agents
10:30	Context Shadow: An Infrastructure for Context Aware Computing	16
	Martin Jonsson
11:00	Context Awareness in Systems with Limited Resources	21
	Ozan Cakmakci, Joelle Coutaz , Kristof Van Laerhofen, Hans-Werner Gellersen
11:30	Agents for distributed context-aware interaction	29
	Augusto Celentano, Daniela Fogli, Piero Mussio, Fabio Pittarello
12:00	mIVA : Why to use Mobile Agents in Virtual Environments and Wireless Devices	37
	Pedro Perez Rodriguez, Gonzalo Mendez Pozo, Angelica de Antonio Jimenez
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-15:30	Session 3: Mobile User Interfaces 1
14:00	Adaptive Information through Mobile Devices, Does it Help?	44
	Dina Goren-Bar
14:30	Harnessing Context to Support Proactive Behaviours	50
	Hee EonByun, Keith Cheverst
15:00	Towards User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing	58
	Dominik Heckmann
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:30	Session 4: Mobile User Interfaces 2
16:00	Flexible Multimodal Human-Machine Interaction in Mobile Environments	66
	Dirk Bühler,Wolfgang Minker, Jochen Häußler, Sven Krüger
16:30	Location Dependent Generation of Sketches for Mobile Indoor Route Descriptions	71
	Christoph Stahl, Antonio Krüger, Jörg Baus
17:00	Personalized Mobile Speech Ticker	80
	Georg Schneider, Rene Oestges
17:30	Final Discussion and Conclusion
18:00	End of the Workshop

Workshop Participants

Dennis Pfisterer	European Media Lab, Germany
Martin Jonsson	KTH, Sweden
Ozan Cakmakci	University of Joseph Fourier, France
Kristof Van Laerhoven	University of Lancaster, UK
Pedro Perez Rodriguez	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Daniela Fogli	Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy
Hee EonByun	University of Lancaster, UK
Keith Cheverst	University of Lancaster, UK
Dominik Heckmann	Saarland University, Germany
Dirk Bühler	Daimler Chrysler Research, Germany
Christoph Stahl	Saarland University, Germany
Georg Schneider	University of applied Sciences Trier, Germany
Nadine Richard	ENST - INFRES, Paris, France
Jörg Cassens	NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Johanna Törnquist	BTH, Sweden
Philippe Vranken	Belgium
Larry Henesey	BTH, Sweden
Antonio Krüger	Saarland University, Germany

Photos

Some of the picutres that participants took during the workshop can be found here . If you want to contribute too, please let me know (krueger@cs.uni-sb.de)