Vlad Trifa
Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich,
SAP Research Switzerland, and
MIT SENSEable City Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Vlad is a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich at the Institute for Pervasive Computing and a Research Associate SAP Research Zurich. He holds a MS degree in Computer Science from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and bio-inspired computing. His thesis project was done at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), with Prof. Charles Taylor at the Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution, jointly with Prof. Deborah Estrin at the Center of Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), where he developed a framework framework for detection, localization, and recognition of bird songs using sensor network, in order to study the influence of environmental factors upon the evolution of bird songs in various environments. After graduation, he spent a year as researcher at the Humanoid Robotics and Computational Neuroscience Laboratories at the ATR Research Center near Kyoto, Japan, where he worked on multimodal human-robot interaction.
Karmen Franinovic
IAD Interaction Design, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zero-Th Association
Karmen is a lecturer in Interaction Design program (IAD) at Zurich University of the Arts. Her research gravitates around the areas of sonic interaction design and responsive environments. The focus is on physical interfaces that engage bodily knowledge in interaction, mainly through non-visual senses using sonic and haptic response. Karmen explores those social and embodied aspects of interactivity within Zero-Th Association, which she cofounded together with Yon Visell in 2003. Previously, she worked as an architect on large public buildings with AltenArchitekten, ArchA, and Arup. Her projects have been presented at and commissioned by Ircam/Centre Pompidou (Paris), SF Camerawork (San Francisco), Fondazione Sandretto (Torino), Miami Bienal, MoMA (Ljubljana), FEIDAD (Taipei), DEAF (Rotterdam), The Junction (Cambridge) and others. Karmen holds the Laurea degree with Honours in Architecture (IUAV, Venice) and the Master's degree (IDII, Ivrea). She is a PhD candidate at University of Plymouth at School of Computing, Communications and Electronics.
Kristian Kloeckl
MIT SENSEable City Lab, Cambridge, USA, and University Iuav of Venice
Kristian Kloeckl leads the real-time city research initiative within the MIT SENSEable City Lab and teaches design at the IUAV University of Venice. Having conducted his studies in Austria and England, he graduated in Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano and holds a PhD in Design Sciences. Kristian has been working as industrial designer in Venice after collaborations with the studios of Giulio Ceppi and Antonio Citterio in Milan. His projects have been exhibited at the MoMA (2008), the Venice architecture Biennale (2008) as well as the Vienna MAK (2009).
Dominique Guinard
Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich, SAP Research Switzerland, and MIT Mobile Experience Lab
Dominique Guinard is a visiting researcher at the MIT Mobile
Experience Lab, a doctoral student at the Department of Computer
Science of ETH Zurich, a Research Associate for SAP Research and a
member of the Auto-ID labs. He was formerly a researcher at the
Information Management group of ETH working on mobile interactions
with the Internet of Things for Nokia Research. Before this, he was a
scientific collaborator at the University of Fribourg where he worked
on scalable software architectures for the Internet of Things together
with SUN Microsystems Switzerland. He received his MSc in Computer
Science from University of Fribourg and the Ubicomp lab of Lancaster
University (UK), where he worked with Prof. Hans Gellersen on using
sensor networks to support mobile spontaneous interactions with the
physical world. Dominique is the co-founder of the webofthings.com
initiative. His research interest is in Web-inspired and lightweight
architectures for a global Web of Things.
program committee
- Carlo Ratti, MIT SENSEable City Lab, USA
- Assaf Bidermann, MIT SENSEable City Lab, USA
- Federico Casalegno, MIT Mobile Exprience Lab, USA
- Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Jerôme Maye, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Patrick Hoffmann, Google, Australia
- Vipul Gupta, SUN Labs, USA
- Yasuo Matsuo, SAP, Japan
- Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Jaz Choi, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Usman Haque, Pachube, UK
- Erik Wilde, University of California Berkeley, USA
- Inaki Vazquez, University of Deusto, Spain
- Gerhard M. Buurman, ZHdK, Interaction Design, Switzerland
- Nicolas Nova, Lift Lab, Switzerland
- Fabien Girardin, Lift Lab, Switzerland
- Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
- Diego Lopez de Ipina, University of Deusto, Spain
- Rob Van Kranenburg, The Internet of Things Council, Belgium
- Tim Kindberg, matter 2 media, UK
- Mark Meagher, Media and Design Lab, EPFL, Switzerland