Workshop date: 19 March 2012
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Opening remarks
Alessio Vecchio
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
Keynote speech: Mobility in Socio-Technical Urban Organisms: from Sensing to Steering
Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Coffee break
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Session 1: Opportunistic Communication and Human Mobility
Chair: Alessio Vecchio (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Mobility and Service Discovery in Opportunistic Networks Mikko Pitkänen (Aalto University, Finland); Teemu Kärkkäinen (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland); Joerg Ott (Aalto University & Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland)
- Lobby Influence: Opportunistic forwarding algorithm based on Human social relationship patterns Sardar Kashif Ashraf Khan (Mirpur University of Science and Technology, United Kingdom); Raul Mondragon (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom); Laurissa Tokarchuk (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom)
- You are where you eat: Foursquare checkins as indicators of human mobility and behaviour Gualtiero Colombo (University of Cardiff, United Kingdom); Martin J Chorley (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Matthew Williams (Cardiff University, United Kingdom); Stuart Allen (University of Cardiff, United Kingdom); Roger Whitaker (University of Cardiff, United Kingdom)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Session 2: Making Sense of Human Activity
Chair: Mikko Pitkänen (Aalto University, Finland)
- People Get Together on Special Events: discovering happenings in the city via cell network analysis Laura Ferrari (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Marco Mamei (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy); Massimo Colonna (Telecom Italia, Italy)
- Practical Automated Activity Recognition Using Standard Smartphones Victoria Stewart (Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Robin Ferguson (The Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Jian-Xun Peng (Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom); Karen Rafferty (Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom)
- A Method of Simultaneously Displaying a Passing Person and His/Her Message on the Same Screen Space Kazumasa Takami (Soka University, Japan)
3:00 PM – 3:30 AM
Coffee break
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Session 3: Localization
Chair: Daniele Puccinelli (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland)
- Enhanced Localization Solution Michela Papandrea (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland Switzerland (SUPSI), Switzerland); Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Science – SUPSI, Switzerland)
- MCMC-based indoor localization with a smart phone and sparse WiFi access points Yan Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Qiang Wang (Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Junbin Liu (Queensland University of Technology & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organisation, Australia); Tim Wark (CSIRO, Australia)
- Comm2Sense: Detecting Proximity Through Smartphones Iacopo Carreras (Create-Net, Italy); Aleksandar Matic (Create-net, Italy); Piret Saar (CREATE-NET, Italy); Venet Osmani (Create-Net, Italy)
- Situation-Aware Choice of the Most Accurate Positioning System Daniel Schön (University of Mannheim, Germany); Hendrik Lemelson (University of Mannheim, Germany); Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)