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Ricardo Baeza-Yates – Palo Alto, CA, United States

Bias and the Web
The Web is the most powerful communication medium and the largest public data repository that humankind has created. Its content ranges from great reference sources such as Wikipedia to ugly fake...
Distributed Web Search
In the ocean of Web data, Web search engines are the primary way to access content. As the data is on the order of petabytes, current search engines are very large centralized systems based on...
Web Data Mining
The Web continues to grow and evolve very fast, changing our daily lives. This activity represents the collaborative work of the millions of institutions and people that contribute content to the...

Brian A. Barsky – Berkeley, CA, United States

Computational Photography: Going Forward from an Historical Perspective
Computational photography is a nascent field that is rapidly gaining interest in various scientific and engineering research communities. This research is occurring in a context of a...

Steve D Benford – Nottingham, United Kingdom

Trajectories Through The User Experience
The idea of designing the ‘user journey’ is familiar to User Experience designers. However, the emergence of mobile interaction, followed by augmented reality and now the...
Uncomfortable User Experience
This is a provocative lecture that confronts our current thinking about how we design interactions with computers and instead makes a case for the deliberate engineering of discomfort as...

Stephen Brewster – Glasgow, United Kingdom

Designing new user interfaces for cars
In-car interactions are undergoing major changes as traditional physical buttons, dials and switchgear are replaced by touchscreens and...

Erik Brunvand – UT, United States

A Tale of Two Rendering Algorithms: Ray Tracing, Rasterization, and their Supporting Hardware
The desire for ever more complex and realistic graphics drives the computer graphics hardware industry. This interest in high-quality rendering spans the range of computer hardware from...
Technological Fluency through Circuit Bending
Electronic technology is pervasive in our modern world but how it actually works can be a mystery to many people. In 1999 and 2002 the National Research Council (NRC) released influential...

Tracy K Camp – CO, United States

An Overview of The Toilers: An Ad Hoc Networks Research Group
The Toilers are a unique group of staff, graduate students, and undergraduates who research ad hoc networks, specifically wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile ad hoc networks...
MANET Simulation Studies: The Incredibles
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community; however, while the use of simulation...
SMOOTH: A Simple and Realistic Way to Model Human Mobility
Simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the mobile ad hoc network (MANET) community; however, while the use of simulation has increased, the credibility of the simulation...

Alain Chesnais – Toronto, ON, Canada

3D Content For The Web
One of the most exciting developments in browser technology is the ability to present and interact with 3D assets in a web page. This talk will focus on the introduction of WebGL since 2011...
Managing Your ACM Chapter
Alain Chesnais will talk about his experience working in chapter leadership for the past 25 years. He started out his ACM experience volunteering to stuff envelopes for the Paris chapter in...
Real Time Predictive Analytics for Social Media
Social media has grown dramatically over the last decade, both in terms of adoption and in terms of volume of information shared. Such growth proses huge challenges for people looking to...

Luca Chittaro – Udine, Italy

Improving Mindfulness and Personal Resilience through Technology
Different activities that can be potentially embraced by almost any person such as physical exercise, deep and slow breathing or relaxation training have been shown to have beneficial effects on...
Mobile Persuasion for Health and Safety Promotion
Mobile apps are a very promising tool to promote attitude and behavior change in users. However, creating effective and successful mobile apps for health and safety promotion requires a wealth of...

Tassos Dimitriou – Athens, Greece

Cryptography and its Applications to Networking and e-Commerce
With the arrival of the Information Age, cryptography has grown to be an essential tool for a wide segment of networking and industry. It can be used to protect all forms of electronic...

Falko Dressler – Paderborn, Germany

Biologically-inspired and Nano-scale Communication and Networking
The developments in communication technologies have yielded many existing and envisioned information network architectures such as cognitive radio networks, sensor and actor networks, quantum...
Sensor Networks: From Theory to Tracking Bats in the Wild
With the development of new generations of micro controllers, the advances in miniaturization, and the increasing use of networked embedded systems, new research challenges emerged in...
Towards the Vehicular Cloud: From Connected Cars to Smart Cities
From an industry point of view, vehicular networking serves as one of the most important enabling technologies required to implement a myriad of applications related to vehicles, vehicle...
Vehicular Networking
Looking back at the last decade, one can observe enormous progress in the domain of vehicular networking. In this growing community, many ongoing activities focus on the design of...

Charlie Fink – New York, NY, United States

Why AR Is White Hot, and VR is not. Yet. - Web, Mobile and Multimedia Technologies
AR devices are likely to hit an inflection point before VR because they are already being integrated into apps we use every day. In five years, “augmented reality” will sound...

Marcus Foth – Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Connected Urbanism and Cohabitation in the Smart City
Ubiquitous computing, mobile devices, and big data come together to give rise to a new urban paradigm being celebrated by many technology corporations and municipalities alike: the smart...
Human-Computer & Human-Food Interactions: Beyond Nutritional Data and Educational Information
Raising people’s awareness of healthy and ecological food options with nutritional data and educational information does not foster a sustained practice towards a more environmentally...
Smart Cities beyond Fad and Hype: Connecting People, Place and Technology
Ubiquitous computing, mobile devices, and big data come together to give rise to a new urban paradigm being celebrated by many technology corporations and local governments alike: the smart...

Silvia Giordano – MANNO ,TI, Switzerland

Is the future mobile networking?
In the last decades, mobile ad hoc networking has been suggested as a technology for realizing the ubiquitous computing vision. However, after more than ten years of research in this field, this...

Jennifer Golbeck – College Park, MD, United States

Foretold Futures from Digital Footprints: Artificial Intelligence, Behavior Prediction, and Privacy
For a few years, we have been developing algorithms to predict individual attributes like personality traits, political preferences, and demographics. More recently, we have shown that AI combined...
The Human Side of Cyber Security
Security experts often claim that people are the most unreliable part of their systems. I argue that the problem is not people behaving insecurely, but security systems that are designed with no...

Qi Han – Golden, CO, United States

A Wireless Sensor Network Based Closed-loop System for Subsurface Contaminant Monitoring
Toxic chemicals and biological agents are released into the subsurface as a result of accidental spills, improper disposal, or intentional damage. These releases cause migrating plumes with...
Adaptive Voice Streaming over Low-power Wireless Networks
Low power wireless networks have become increasingly popular for mission-critical applications such as security surveillance and disaster response. In particular, emerging low power wireless...
Detection and Tracking of Dynamic Amorphous Events in Wireless Sensor Networks
In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been deployed for various applications such as environmental monitoring, structural health monitoring, and emergency responses. Using...
Dynamic Group Monitoring in Proximity-based Mobile Social Networks
Various forms of groups exist in social interactions. In recent years, due to the increasing popularity of mobile devices such as smartphones, these dynamic groups can be monitored by...
Pervasive Computing Systems Research: An Application-driven Approach
Pervasive and mobile computing is an emerging field of research that brings in revolutionary paradigms for computing models in the 21st century. The goal of pervasive computing is to create...
Taming the Uncertainty in Supporting Distributed Sensor Applications
With the advances in computational, communication, and sensing capabilities, large-scale sensor-based distributed environments are becoming a reality. However, the dynamic nature of wireless...

Vicki L Hanson – Dundee, United Kingdom

Inclusive Technologies

Nearly 1 of every 5 people either currently has a disability or will develop a one in their lifetime. For these...
The Age Wave

Are technology difficulties an inescapable fact of ageing? Or are there factors that can equip future generations of older adults with skills that will erase...

James A Hendler – Troy, NY, United States

Knowledge Representation in the Era of Deep Learning, Watson and the Semantic Web
A burst in optimism (and unwarranted fear) has grown around a number of technologies that are high impact and able to solve problems that have challenged AI researchers for years. The...
Social Machines: The Coming Collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity
As technology has increasingly brought computing off of the laptop and into our social domain, we see society more and more impacted by the interactions allowed by mobile technologies and...
The Semantic Web
For more than a decade now, the Semantic Web community has been listening to one critic after another explain why the technology will not work. The good news is that we have now exceeded the...

Kristina Höök – Stockholm, Sweden

Designing for Somaesthetics
In designing for bodily experiences, there has been a lack of theories that can provide the underpinnings we need to understand and deepen our design thinking. Despite all the work we have seen on...
The Mobile Life? An enjoyment society
The Mobile Life Centre, started in 2007, has grown to be about 45 researchers, exploring experiential, leisure and playful mobile and ubiquitous interactions. We do serious research on what we...

Seiji Isotani – Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil

Open Linked Data and Semantic Web: Towards the Web of Knowledge
What is open linked data? How is it connected with the future of the Web? In this talk, we will discuss the concept of open linked data and the advantages of creating an ecosystem for structuring,...
Understanding Ontologies and Ontology Engineering
Computer science borrows the term ontology from a branch of philosophy (metaphysics) that studies the nature of “being” and “existence.” For philosophers, ontology aims at...

Dharm Singh Jat – Windhoek, AR, Namibia

Evaluation of Video Quality of Service in Wireless Networks
Computer simulation is the research tool of choice for a majority of the wired and wireless network research community and these days most of research works on the network adopt computer...
Futuristic Wireless Networks for Multimedia Applications
Nowadays the IP video traffic over the wireless network is continuously growing due the advances in wireless network technologies and smart mobile communication devices. It is estimated that...

Joaquim A Jorge – Lisboa, Portugal

Adding More Than Two Dimensions to Tabletop Interfaces. Is Tony Stark home?
Work on interactive tabletops and surfaces has focused mostly on two-dimensional issues, such as multi-finger gestures and tangible interaction. Interesting as it is however, this picture is...
Full contact - Beyond 2D Interactive Surfaces
We live in a post-WIMP world. Indeed, more and more users access information, communicate with and operate on interactive surfaces foregoing the still common mouse and keyboard of yonder....
Game Over? New Approaches to Teaching Engineering Courses
Gamification has been explored recently as a way to promote content delivery in education, yielding promising results. However, little is known regarding how it helps different students...
The Future of Media Interfaces
We are living in a post-WIMP world. Indeed, more and more users access information, communicate and operate mobile information appliances foregoing the still common mouse and keyboard of yonder....

Fernando Koch – NY, United States

Social Applications and Sensible Societies
In this lecture, we will entice the audience to think of mobile media technologies as a tool to address urban social issues. The explanation will explore the potential of mobile devices,...

Anis Koubaa – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

The Internet-of-Drones: Integrating Drones into the Internet-of-Things and the Cloud
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - also known as Drones, are becoming increasingly popular. Although these have been around for already a few years, applications’ developers and...

Tsvi Kuflik – Haifa, Israel

Small group modeling in cultural heritage - modeling automatic detection of social behavior of museum visitor pairs
In many cases, visitors come to a museum in small groups. In these cases, the visitors’ social context has an impact on their museum visit experience. Knowing the social context may allow a...
The museum as a "living lab" exploring the potential contribution of novel technology in an instrumented cultural heritage site
In the framework of the PIL project, which I have directed at the University of Haifa as part of a long lasting set of Israeli-Italian collaboration projects, a “Living Lab” has...

Ashish Kundu – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Network Flow Security Analytics for IoT and Mobile Devices
Given that security threats and privacy breaches are commonplace today, it is an important problem for one to know whether their device(s) are in a "good state of...
Security and Compliance Issues in Blockchain
Blockchain is a paradigm shift in computing -- it enables computing among distributed untrusted peers without the need for any centralized trusted authority. Transaction...

Dongwon Lee – Fairfax, VA, United States

LIKEs-R-Us: Analyzing LIKEs in Social Media
The recent dramatic increase in the usage and prevalence of social media has led to the creation and sharing of a significant amount of information in various formats such as texts, photos, or...

Dirk Lewandowski – Hamburg, Germany

THE POWER OF SEARCH ENGINES
Search engines are the premier tools when it comes to finding information on the Internet. Newer technological developments show how search is changing from the query-results paradigm to...

Shipeng Li – Beijing, China

Virtualize Everything a Path to the Convergence of Cloud, Mobile and IoT Computing
With the rapid development of Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing and IoT Computing, there is an increasing need for an efficient and effective way to enable the collaborations between cloud,...

Yung-Hsiang Lu – West Lafayette, IN, United States

Mobile Computing in a Connected World
Mobile computers connected to the Internet allow users anywhere to create, share, and retrieve information. Despite the convenience, mobile computers have one critical disadvantage: the...
Opportunities and Challenges in Global Network Cameras
Millions of network cameras have been deployed. Many of these cameras provide publicly available data, continuously streaming live views of national parks, city halls, streets, highways,...
Power Management- A System View

Reducing power consumption is important for electronic systems due to many reasons. Battery-powered mobile systems and embedded systems are widely used today. Energy cost...

Aditi Majumder – Irvine, CA, United States

Imparting New Degrees of Freedom to Next Generation Displays and Cameras
We have seen a tremendous advancement in the past decade by which we will soon find cameras and projectors everywhere in diverse sizes, form factors and resolutions. More importantly, with...

Oge Marques – Boca Raton, FL, United States

Can you trust what you see? The magic of visual perception
This lecture presents and explains a diverse collection of visual perception phenomena that challenge our common knowledge of how well we detect, recognize, compare, measure, interpret, and make...
Image Processing and Computer Vision in iOS
This lecture provides directions for developers and researchers interested in developing iOS applications with image processing and computer vision capabilities. It is divided into three main...
Practical Image Processing and Computer Vision Using MATLAB
This lecture presents an overview of useful image processing and computer vision algorithms and demonstrates how to quickly use them to build practical solutions implemented with MATLAB. It...
Using games to solve challenging multimedia problems
This talk discusses how we can use human computation methods to supplement traditional content analysis techniques and assist in the solution of hard multimedia problems. There are many...
Visual information retrieval: advances, challenges and opportunities

This talk presents an overview of Visual information retrieval (VIR), an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and...

Laurence Nigay – Grenoble, France

Distant pointing in ubiquitous environment
Pointing to targets is an elementary task universally present in interfaces. In an ubiquitous environment, the need for distant pointing is frequent in several domains including...
Handheld Augmented Reality: Touch Interaction
Handheld Augmented Reality (AR), one type of mobile AR, relies on the spatial coupling between the real world and the on-screen augmented reality outputs. Such spatial coupling introduces...
Multimodal Interaction
Multimodal interaction supports multiple interaction techniques, which may be used sequentially or concurrently, and independently or combined synergistically. Specific interaction aspects...

Sharath Pankanti – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Actionable Video Content Summarization: Lessons from Practical Case Studies
For the first time in the history of universe, the video data generated by humans has exceeds all other forms of the data. While no one denies the utility of the information hidden within...
Multi-media Compliance: A practical paradigm for managing business integrity
In virtually every business context there is a need to establish some form of monitoring system to ensure that employees comply with business processes and policies. Compliance failures range from...
Public Sector Surveillance
Situation awareness is the key to security. Awareness requires information that spans multiple scales of space and time. The increasing need for sophisticated surveillance systems and the move to...
Retail video analytics
The retail industry grosses trillions of USD revenue annually worldwide and provides numerous opportunities for innovation to facilitate real-world business operations. Applications include: loss...

Fabio Paterno – Pisa, Italy

Design and Adaptation for Cross-Device, Context-dependent User Interfaces
This course aims to help user interface designers and developers to understand the issues involved in multi-device, context-dependent interactive applications, which can be accessed through...
End-User Development: an Emerging Field for Empowering People
End-User Development is a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as non-professional software developers, at some point to create, modify or...
Model-based User Interface Design: Where we are, Where we are headed
Model-based approaches represent the intersection between user interface design and more systematic approaches by providing designers with the means to represent and manipulate...
The role of automatic tool support in usability and accessibility evaluation of Web applications
Evaluation is an increasingly important part of the user interface design process. However, evaluation can be expensive in terms of time and human resources, and automation is therefore a...

Pearl Pu – Preverenges, Switzerland

Sensor-based Personalized Wellness Applications
The cost of health care is expected to grow enormously in the coming years. To keep these costs limited, we need better technological tools for self-monitoring and independent aging, and to...
Troubles in Deciding? How Recommender Technology Can Help Consumers Choose
As online stores offer practically an infinite shelf space, recommender systems are playing an increasingly important role in helping users search and discover items that they truly want....

Hanan Samet – College Park, MD, United States

Duking it out at the Smartphone Mobile App Mapping API Corral:Apple, Google, and the Competition
The recent introduction of the Apple iPhone 5 and the accompanying iOS6 software environment which, among other changes, replaced the use of the Google Maps API in iOS5 by Apple's own...

Leonel Sousa – INESC-ID, Rua Alves Redol, 9, Portugal

Cache-Aware Roofline Model: Performance, Power and Energy-Efficiency Limits of Multi-cores
In this talk, a set of fundamental Cache-aware Roofline Models (CARMs) are presented, which describe the performance, power, energy and energy-efficiency upper-bounds of parallel architectures,...
GHEVC: GPU-based HEVC decoder
For High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) decoders, a significant increase of the computational load is a limiting factor to accomplish real-time, especially for high definition video sequences...
Microprocessors, Microcontroller Units and the Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) refers to scenarios where different machines, such as objects, sensors and everyday items, are connected and require minimal human intervention – machine-to-machine...

David G. Stork – Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Computer vision in the study of art: New rigorous approaches to the study of paintings and drawings
New rigorous computer algorithms have been used to shed light on a number of recent controversies in the study of art. For example, illumination estimation and shape-from-shading methods...

Venkat Subramaniam – Broomfield, CO, United States

Functional Programming
Most of the mainstream languages have supported the imperative style of programming for a very long time. Functional programming has been around for a few decades but it's finally gaining...
Java 8 Lambda Expressions, the Pathway to Functional Style
Java 8 has been one of the most significant changes to the language. It is not simply the introduction of some new syntax, but a fundamental different way of thinking that we're used to when...
Let's Get Lazy: Explore the Real Power of Streams
When we hear functional programming we often hear about immutability and higher-order functions. They are definitely important, but the real power of functional programming is in function...
Reactive Programming
Why a new programming model? The computing platform and the demands on applications have significantly changed in the past few years. We can't be creating applications like we once did....
The Power and Perils of Parallel Streams
Java 8 makes it really easy to convert a stream to a parallel stream, to run tasks concurrently. When come thing is that easy we tend to ask "what's the catch" and that's a very...
Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less
The quality of the code we create has a significant impact on our ability to change the software in the future. As programmers succumb to time and deliver pressures, the quality of code may get...

André Tricot – Toulouse, France

The upward and downward links between credibility, trust and authority
The Internet and its main tools (Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Tweeter) deeply raise and renew fundamental questions, that everyone asks almost everyday: Is this information or content true? Can I...

Jean Vanderdonckt – Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

Multimodal web user interfaces.
Web applications are not limited to graphical interaction, they are now open to vocal, tactile, gestural, and multimodal interaction. This lecture provides an overview of these interaction...

Rakesh Verma – Houston, TX, United States

Talking to Computers - A Solved Problem?
Life would be so much easier if computers could read and understand our directions in English, talk to people, and perhaps also compose stories and poems for them. Siri and Cortana...
Wireless Sensor Networks: Security, Protocols and Countermeasures
Wireless Sensor Networks are increasingly being deployed in hazardous and hostile environments for numerous civil and military applications such as sensing the environment, biosensors, etc. They...

Arun Vishwanath – Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Net Neutrality and Internet Fast Lanes
Net neutrality and Internet fast lanes have been the subject of raging debates — in the he US and around the world — for several years now. Various view points have been put...

Ellen M Voorhees – Gaithersburg, MD, United States

Information Retrieval Challenge Problems
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is a series of workshops designed to advance the state-of-the-art in information retrieval by providing the infrastructure necessary for large-scale...
The Text REtrieval Conference
The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has created standard test sets and evaluation methodology to support the development of...

Wan Abdul Rahim Bin Wan Mohd Isa – Shah Alam, Malaysia

Incorporating the Cultural Dimensions into the Theoretical Framework of Website Information Architecture
Information Architecture (IA) has emerged as a discipline that is concerned with the development of systematic approaches to the presentation and organization of online information. The IA...
E-Inclusion Value Chain Framework
The absence of systematic rural informatics leads to a mismatch of capabilities and needs of specific target community. These ultimately resort to the issue of sustainability and under-utilization...
Engineering Rural Informatics using Agile User Centered Design
The applicability of agile user centered design had gained interests to engineer rural informatics for rural community. This is because rural communities have unique technological requirements and...
Usability Testing Research Framework
In general, there are five common usability testing characteristics that may lead to the best practices in the usability testing. The five characteristics are (i) specific goals for each test,...

Ingmar G Weber – Doha, Qatar

A Digital Socioscope
How can Twitter data be used to study individual-level human behavior and social interaction on a global scale? This talk introduces the audience to the methods, opportunities, and...
Introduction to Computational Social Science
Due to the increasing availability of large-scale data on human behavior collected on the social web, as well as advances in analyzing larger and larger data sets, interest in applying...
Using Social Media for Health Studies
Given that users share all kinds of minutiae on social media, can this noisy, crowd-sourced data be used for health studies? This talk presents a number of recent examples that show the...

Bebo White – San Francisco, CA, United States

Cybercurrencies and Blockchain (fiction, fallacy, fact, fun, and future)
Hardly a day goes by without a news story about Bitcoin or Ethereum, two of the best known and strongest cybercurrency technologies. Opinions run the spectrum, from those who view it as...
The Web: A Nostalgic View of the Past and Informed Hopes for the Future
This lecture draws upon the speaker’s 30-year love affair with WWW technology – from his first exposure at CERN in 1989 and the first US Web site at SLAC in 1991 to his current...

Tao Xie – Raleigh, IL, United States

Software Analytics: Data Analytics for Software Engineering
A huge wealth of various data exists in software life cycle, including source code, feature specifications, bug reports, test cases, execution traces/logs, and real-world user feedback, etc. Data...
Teaching and Learning Programming and Software Engineering via Interactive Gaming
Pex4Fun (http://www.pex4fun.com/) and Code Hunt (https://www.codehunt.com/), released by Microsoft Research, offer a web-based educational gaming platform for teaching and learning programming and...
Text Analytics for Mobile App Security and Beyond
Mobile apps are accompanied by a rich amount of natural language text: app descriptions, app user reviews, update/release notes, etc. Such natural language text is essential in conveying important...

Changsheng Xu – Beijing, China

User-Centric Social Multimedia Computing
Social multimedia has three fundamental elements of user, multimedia content and interaction. Social multimedia computing aims to connect user and multimedia content by analyzing the interaction,...

Moustafa A Youssef – New Borg Elarab City, Alexandria, Egypt

Device-free Localization: The future for Ubiquitous Sensing

WLAN Device-free Passive (DfP) localization is an emerging field in location determination enabling the localization of entities that neither carry any devices nor participate...
Indoor Geographic Information Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
Traditional Geographic Information Systems (GIS) focus on capturing and analyzing outdoor geographical data. However, there is no corresponding effort for indoor data and indoor GISs remain...
New Paradigms for Location Determination Technologies
In this talk, we explore two recent developments in localization systems: Device-free localization and and ubiquitous indoor localization. In the first part of the talk, we present the...
The GPS Challengers: New trends in Outdoor Localization
Location-based services (LBS) have become an integral part of our daily life with applications including car navigation, location-based social networks, and context-aware predication and...
Ubiquitous Indoor Localization: The Indoor Equivalent of GPS
Although GPS has been considered a ubiquitous outdoor localization technology, we are still far from a similar technology for indoor environments. While a number of technologies have been...

Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti – Nicosia, Cyprus

Internet-based Indoor Navigation Services
This talk presents the fundamental mobile data management concepts behind the realization of innovative indoor information services that deal with all aspects of handling indoor data as a...