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Michael
Beigl
is Senior Researcher at the University of Karlsruhe, from where he obtained
both his MSc (1995) and PhD (Dr.-Ing)(2000) degrees in computing. His
PhD thesis about Ubiquitous Computing environments (Kommunikation in interaktiven
Räumen) received the FZI price for the best thesis of the year 2000.
He technical led the group’s Ubiquitous Computing effort until 2000,
was director of the TecO research group until early 2006. Michael was
guest professor at Hide
Tokuda Lab, Keio University, Japan in autum 2005 and is professor
at the Technische Universität
Braunschweig from March 1, 2006. He is co-founder and member of the
supervisory board of Particle
Computer, a award winning spin-off company for Ubicomp technology.
His research interests evolve around people at the center of communication
and information technology, with specific interest in embedded systems,
mobile and ubiquitous networks, novel information appliances and artefacts,
human-computer interaction, location models and systems, novel sensor
technology and in context awareness. Michael
is also strongly involved in Computer Science courses (Informatikstudium).
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My research
focuses on embedding of computing technology into artefacts and environments
with emphasis on ubiquitous computing, embedded systems and human-computer
interaction (HCI). The most interesting question that drives my research
is what implication ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) environments with many
non-intrusive interconnected devices (e.g. appliance networks and communication)
have to the way humans interact with computers and how can that be reflected
in system design (starting from hardware over software to human-computer
interface): how should such computer be integrated into the environment
and everyday objects (digital artefacts and embedded systems), how can all
these small human-computer interfaces work together (communication &
networks) and form one interface (HCI), how can they perceive their environment
(context awareness, new sensor hardware and perception algorithms), in what
way differs interaction in such environments from today known human-computer
interaction (e.g. implicit HCI and ambient systems) and what are then the
implication for an overall interface and for systems providing such an interface.
As my research is application centered I designed and build some experimental
applications and enabling technology (Particle
Computer/Smart-Its, Smart
Surroundings, UbicompBrowser, MediaCup,
Point&Click, ElectronicManual, AmbientTelepresence, SmartDoorPlate)
and are involved in projects looking at design and use of ambient intelligence
in applications as Supply Chain and Life-Cycle Management (e.g. COBIS,
DigiClip). Here the research focuses on engineering questions (hardware-software
co-design, design support and administration tools) and on special focus
problems (esp. ultra-low power networks based on new transmission schemes,
energy-aware and ultra-low-power design, wireless energy transmission, advanced
RFID technology, location systems (e.g. RELATE)).
Complementary I do
some research in operating ubiquitous computing system, in the area of
handheld computing, location and environment aware computing, mainly utilizing
the PalmPilot, infrared technology, novel location sensors and RFID technology.
An older research theme of mine was mobile computing with focus on mobile
aware middleware for applications.
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I am leading the TecO
as senior researcher and director. Additionally I am technically involved
in some of the TecO projects, currently COBIS (fundet by the EU under
framework 6), RELATE (EU, FP6), DigiClip (funded by SAP) and Smart Surroundings
(funded by the Dutch BSISK). I was technically leading the Smart-Its
and RELATE projects (both EU, FP5). The project is part of the European
initiative The Disappearing
Computer, and funded in part by the Commission of the European Union.
I am also responsible for the official Web virtual
library on Handheld Computing. Furthermore I am resposible for industrial
collaboration.
Older projects I was
responsible include projects with Microsoft including the Microsoft Microsoft Internet Beratung für Schulen (MIB),
the former ms-aic, the Mercado EU-project, a Multimedia Pilot
which is based on Digital´s Mikado
kiosk technology (shown at CeBIT´98). Other projects are the Microsoft
Internet Call Center ('95-'97) and the AltaVista
for T-Online project. In the AltaVista for T-Online project (a
cooperation between the TecO and Digital Equipment, CEC Karlsruhe) a full
text index service based on Digital's
AltaVista technology for the German
T-Online service (a prerelease was shown
at CeBIT HOME´96) was developed.
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- Member of the Editorial
Board of the Journal "Personal
and Ubiquitous Computing", Springer Verlag
- Member of the PC of
fifth anaual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing (PerCom) 2007, New York City March 26-30, 2007
- Member of the PC of the Tenth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October 11-14, 2006
- Member of the PC of the first Mobile and Embedded Interactive Systems (MEIS'06) Workshop at Informatik 2006
- Member of the PC of the 6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) 2006
- PC Chair of the "Third International
Conference on Networked Sensing Systems" (INSS) 2006, May 31-June
2 2006, Chicago, USA
- Member of the PC
of the Pervasive 2006, May
7-10 2006, Dublin, Ireland
- Member of the PC
of the ARCS 2006 Conference,
March 13-16 2006, Frankfurt, Germany
- Member of the PC
of the Perware 2006, March
13, 2006, Pisa, Italy
- Member of the PC
of the 3rd
Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (Comorea), March 13-17,
2006, Pisa, Italy
- Member of the PC
of the "Seventh
IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications"
(WMCSA), Santa Cruz, USA, 2006
- PC Co-Chair of
the Ubicomp 2005 Conference, September
11-14, Tokyo, Japan
- Member of the PC
of the Pervasive 2005 Conference,
8-12 May, 2005, Munich, Germany
- Member
of the PC of the 5th International
Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) on
the ICDCS 2005, June 10th, 2005, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Member of the PC
of the 2nd
EEE PerCom Workshop on Context Modeling and Reasoning (CoMoRea)
March 12th 2005, Hawaii
- PC Chair of the
ARCS 2005 Conference, March
14-17, 2005, Innsbruck, Austria
- Member of the PC
of the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling
and Using Context (CONTEXT-05),
Paris, France, July 5-8, 2005
- Member of the PC
of the IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, 28-29th
June 2005, University of Essex, UK
- Member of the PC
of the Ubicomp 2004 Conference,
Nottingham, UK
- Member of the PC
of the Organic Computing Workshop, Ulm, Germany, 2004
- Member of the PC
of the First International
Conference on Networked Sensing Systems 2004, Tokyo, Japan, June
22-23, 2004
- Member of the PC
of the Pervasive 2004 Conference,
Linz, Vienna, Linz / Vienna, Austria, April 19-23, 2004
- Workshop Chair
of the Ubicomp 2003 Conference,
October 12-15, 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Member of the PC
of the Middleware Support
for Pervasive Computing Workshop (Perware) 2004
- Member of the PC
of the International
Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems "Trends in Network
and Pervasive Computing" (ARCS), 2004, Augsburg
- Member
of the PC of the 4rd
International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing
(IWSAWC) on the ICDCS 2004, March 23 - 26, 2004, Tokyo, Japan
- Co-Editor of Special
Issue "Handheld Computing",
IEEE Computer, 2003
- Member of the PC
of the MDM 2004, 5th International
Conference on Mobile Data Management, Silicon Valley, California, USA,
January 2004
- Chair of the 3rd
International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing
(IWSAWC) on the ICDCS 2003, May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island
USA
- Member of the PC
of the "Fifth IEEE Workshop
on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications" (WMCSA), Santa
Cruz, USA, 2003
- Co-Editor of Special
Issue "Location
Modeling", Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Volume
6 Issue 5-6 , Springer Verlag, 2002
- Member of the program
commitee of the First International
Conference on Security in Pervasive Computing (SPC-2003) 2003, Boppard,
Germany
- Co-organizer of
the Workshop "Invisible Computing" at the IEEE International
Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid" (CCGrid'2002)
- Member of the program
commitee of the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management,
2003, Melbourne, Australia
- Member of the PC
of the International
Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems "Trends in Network
and Pervasive Computing" (ARCS), 2002, Karlsruhe
- Co-organizer of
the workshop Location Modeling
for Ubiquitous Computing at Ubicomp
2001
- Member of program
commitee of the International
Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems
Trends in Network and Pervasive Computing
- Member of the program
comittee of the 2nd
International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC)
2002 Vienna, Austria July 2nd, 2002
- Co-organizer of
the workshop Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
in allgegenwärtigen Informationssystemen (HCI in Ubiquitous
Computing) at the German HCI Conference 2001
- Member of Commissioning
Panel of PACCIT (People
At the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies, joint program
of the EPSRC/ESRC)
1999-2000
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