Program Ubicomp/ISWC 2018 Doctoral Colloquium

Ubicomp/ISWC 2018 Doctoral Colloquium


Participating PhD Students and Topics


09:00 - 10:30 Morning Session #1 (Pervasive/collaborative)

  • Peer-ceived Well-Being: Exploring the Value of Peers for Human Stress Assessment in-Situ
  • Allan Berrocal (University of Geneva)
  • Situational Impairments during Mobile Interaction
  • Zhanna Sarsenbayeva (The University of Melbourne)
  • Toward Pervasive Interaction: Empowering and Enriching Interactions on Resource-constrained Devices
  • Tengxiang Zhang (Tsinghua University)
  • Automated Collaboration Coach for Video-conferencing based Group Discussions
  • Samiha Samrose (University of Rochester)

10:30 - 11:00 : Coffee break 1


11:00 - 12:30 Morning Session #2 (Health/caregiving)

  • Designing for Diagnostic Self-Tracking
  • Ravi Karkar (University of Washington)
  • Accessible Human-Error Interactions in AI Applications for the Blind
  • Jonggi Hong (University of Maryland, College Park)
  • Emotion-Aware Systems for Promoting Human Well-being
  • Elena Di Lascio (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI))
  • User-Friendly Design of Caregiving Support System
  • Ryosuke Onose (Nagoya University)

12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch


13:30 - 15:00 Afternoon Session #1 (Recognition/identification)

  • Uncovering the potential of the foot as a source of user information
  • Mr Don Samitha Elvitigala (The University of Auckland)
  • Unobtrusive Recognition of Socio-Affective Dynamics During Human Interactions Using Wearables and Smartphones
  • Shkurta Gashi (Università della Svizzera italiana)
  • Multi-Task Ensemble Learning for Affect Recognition
  • Martin Gjoreski Gjoreski (Jozef Stefan Institute)
  • Unobtrusive Identification of Cognitive States for Improved Knowledge Acquisition
  • Benjamin Tag (Keio University)

15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee break 2


15:30 - 17:00 Afternoon Session #2 (Wearable/AR)

  • Development and Characterization of an Electrical Contact Method of Measuring Body and Skin Contact with Wearable Systems
  • Crystal Compton (University of Minnesota)
  • Delocalizing Strain in an Interconnected Solder Joint on a Textile Substrate
  • Mary Ellen Berglund (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities)
  • Dynamic Compression in Affective Haptics
  • Esther W Foo (University of Minnesota- Twin Cities)
  • Projection-based Localization and Control Method of Robot Swarms for Swarm User Interfaces
  • Takefumi Hiraki (The University of Tokyo)