Mobile, Locative and Collaborative

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Mobile, Locative and Collaborative

• Fabien Girardin
• EPFL http//people.epfl.ch/Fabien.Girardin
• Blog http//www.girardin.org/fabien/blog/

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My Background

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, (Biel
  School of Engineering)
• Distributed Systems (Borland Corp.)
• e/mLearning (University of Geneva, EPFL)
• Mobile Technologies (EPFL)

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My Interests

• Mobile and Pervasive Technologies
• CSCW
• HCI
• Distributed Systems

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Radio Frequency Scanning
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Indoor Positioning
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CatchBob!
understand the role of space and location
awareness on collaborative processes http//crafts
rv1.epfl.ch/research/catchbob/

• Analyse how people make use of location
  information
• Understand the role of space and location
  awarneness on collaborative processes
• 2 conditions with or without others positions
• In this context, automatically knowing where the
  others are did not facilitate task performance

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ShoutSpace
a geographical messaging system http//craftsrv1.e
pfl.ch/research/stamps/

• Shared knowledge construction
• Better comprehension of how people make
  inferences
• Relation space and communication

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ShoutSpace
a geographical messaging system
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Topics

• Managing the uncertainty
• Engaging technology
• Self vs. Automatic positioning
• Spatial annotation
• ...