9th Workshop in Speckled Computing

9th Workshop in Speckled Computing

This took place on 24 and 25 November 2010 in the Ground Floor, School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.

24 November 2010

Session 1: Speckled Interactions

08:15 Registration and coffee in the Café


08:45 Welcome and Introduction

D K Arvind (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

09:00 Spatial Reasoning about Human-Robot Interactions” (PDF)

Aris Valtazanos (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)

09:30 Validation of a Distributed Estimation Algorithm for Mobile Gait Analysis using Specknet”

Alexander Pappe (Otto Bock Gmbh, Duderstadt, Germany)

10:00 “Experimental Measurement of Dynamic Loads of Structures Induced by Groups and Crowds”

Vitomir Racic (Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, University of

Sheffield)


10:30 Refreshments in the Café


11:00 “Interactive Music Systems and Sensor Technologies

Marc Leman (IPEM, Ghent University, Belgium)

11:30 “Body-Based Gestures and Social Acceptability” (PDF)

Stephen Brewster (School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow)


12:00 Lunch in the Café and the Atrium


13:00 “Speckled Flamenco Dancer”

Mariza Dima (Edinburgh College of Art)


13:15 Welcome and opening of the Centre for Speckled Computing

Sir Timothy O’Shea (Principal, The University of Edinburgh)

Session 2: Thematic Talks

13:30 “Better Monitoring of the Acutely Ill Patient” (PDF)

Gordon Drummond (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh)

14:00 “Using Specknets to Understand Land-Atmosphere Interactions at

Multiple Scales”(PDF)

Mathew Williams (School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh)

14:30 “Anticipating Behaviour” (PDF)

Alan Murray (Edinburgh College of Art)


15:00 Refreshments in the Café

Session 3: Speckled Healthcare

15:30 “COPD and Activity Monitoring” (PDF)

William McNee (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh) & Roberto Rabinovich (The

Queen’s Medical Research Institute)

16:00 “Remote monitoring in COPD - What's Missing?”(PDF)

Brian McKinstry (Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of

Edinburgh) & Janet Hanley (NHS Lothian)

16:30  “The Use of Specks in Gait Analysis” (PDF)

Alison Richardson & Jennifer Walsh (Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh)

17:00 “Alarming Seizures” (PDF)

Kamath Tallur (Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh)

17:30 “Applications of Speckled Computing in Sleep Disorders

Renata Riha (Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh)


18:00 Canapé Reception in the Café and the Atrium

25 November 2010

Session 4: Monitoring in the Natural Environment

08:15 Registration and coffee in the Café


09:00 “The Need for Real-Time REDOX Measurement in Freshwater Ecology” (PDF)

Bryan Spears & Bernard Dudley (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Edinburgh)

09:30 “Development of a Real-Time, in situ REDOX Sensor for Monitoring

Microbial Sediment Processes” (PDF)

Andrew Free (School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

10:00 Using Specknets to Measure Crop Stress and Forecast Disease” (PDF)

Simon Oxley (Scottish Agricultural College)

10:30 “Linking Soil Carbon Distribution and Physicochemical Conditions in a

Heterogeneous Arctic Landscape”(PDF)

Audrey Wayolle (University of Stirling)


11:00 Refreshments in the Café

SLIP Students’ Showcase (Level 3, AppletonTower)

11:20 “Mesh” (PDF)

Marco Elver & Harry Wagstaff

11:30 “Flexible Environmental Monitoring of Buildings” (PDF)

Nicky Ellakirk, Marco Elver, Ivan Konstantinov, Peter Nock & Marciej Soczka

12:00 “On-body Indoor Navigational Assistance for the Visually-impaired” (PDF)

Igor Czerwinski, Dimo Iliev, James McKeown & Tsveta Stoyanova

12:30 “Awesomegotchi – Proximity Gaming for Social Networking” (PDF)

Marcin Bot, Mateusz Byczkowski, Ross Hamilton, Andrew Sogokon & Harry Wagstaff


13:00 Lunch in the Café and the Atrium


13:30 “Aerodynamic Speech Database – the New Questions” (PDF)

Didier Demolin (GIPSA Laboratory, Grenoble, France)

Session 5: Monitoring in the Built Environment

14:00 “Crowd Flow Modelling and the Future Benefits of Speckled Computing

David Brocklehurst (Buro Happold)

14:30 Video Tracking of Human Activity and Voice Recognition Co-combined in Augmented Interactive Performance Environments” (PDF)

Simon Biggs (Edinburgh College of Art)

15:00 “Tales of Things and other Ghost Stories

Chris Speed (Edinburgh College of Art)


15:30 Refreshments in the Café


16:00Evaluating the Performance of Occupied Buildings – An

Opportunity for Specks?” (PDF)

Zack Gill, Buro Happold

16:30 “Tacit Knowledge to Embodied Interaction: Specks in ‘Research by

Design’

Mark Wright (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh

College of Art)

17:00 “Algorithmic Challenges for Sensor Networks in Environmental

Monitoring” (PDF)

Sotiris Nikoletseas (Computing Technology Institute, University of Patras)


17:30 Canapé Reception in the Café and the Atrium