Ambi-sys 2011 Program

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Thursday 24th March 2011

8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00-10.30 Special Session (Part I)
  • Advanced Materials and Creative Design Thinking for Ambient Intelligence
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.30 Special Session (Part II)
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.00
  • Keynote Speech:
    Prof. Dieter Rombach
15.00-16.00 Paper Session I
  • A Physical Basis for Ambient Intelligence (F)
    Raymond Oliver, Anne Toomey
  • Service Composition and Advanced User Interfaces in the Home of Tomorrow: the SM4All Approach (F)
    Tiziana Catarci, Claudio Di Ciccio, Vincenzo Forte, Ettore Iacomussi, Massimo Mecella, Giuseppe Santucci, Giuseppe Tino
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Paper Session II
  • Wireless Sensor Network Deployment for Building Environmental Monitoring and Control (F)
    Essa Jafer, Rostislav Spinar, Paul Stack, Cian O'Mathuna, Dirk Pesch
  • Design and Evaluation of a Fall Detection Algorithm on Mobile Phone Platform (F)
    Manuel Silva, Pedro M. Teixeira, Filipe Abrantes, Filipe Sousa
19.30 Social Dinner

Friday 25th March 2011

9.00-10.30 Paper Session III
  • System performance of an LTE MIMO downlink in various fading environments (F)
    Constantinos T. Angelis, Spyridon K. Chronopoulos
  • Development of Computer Vision Algorithm for Surgical Skill Assessment (F)
    Gazi Islam, Kanav Kahol, John Ferrara, Richard Gray
  • Open architecture to raise awareness of energy consumption for the home environment(F)
    Antonio Rodrigues, Carlos Resende, Filipe Sousa
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
11.00-12.00 Paper Session IV
  • RFID-based System for Tracking People: Approaches to Tagging Demented Patients (S)
    Aleksandar Matic, Venet Osmani, Oscar Mayora
  • Processing Location Data for Ambient Intelligence Applications (S)
    Samuel del Bello, Sofia Oliveira, Jared Hawkey, Olivier Perriquet, Nuno Correia
  • Interactive Haptic Virtual Collaborative Training Simulator to Retain CPR Skills (F)
    Prabal Khanal, Kanav Kahol
12.00-13.00 Panel Session
13.00-13.30 Conference Closure