Program

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2 and Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD Larry Smarr became founding director in 2000 of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a University of California San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. He holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Jacobs School’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. For the previous 15 years as founding director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Smarr helped drive major developments in the planetary information infrastructure: the Internet, the Web, scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence. Smarr serves as PI on the NSF’s OptIPuter and the Moore Foundation’s CAMERA microbial metagenomics projects. Smarr was a member of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee for President Clinton and served until 2005 on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the NASA Advisory Council. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he received the IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for his lifetime achievements in distributed computing systems.

Dr. Vernor Vinge, Novelist & Retired Professor of Computer Science, San Diego State University Vernor Vinge holds a PhD(Math) from University of California, San Diego. From 1972 to 2000 he taught in the Department of Math and Computer Sciences at San Diego State University. He has now retired from SDSU in order to write science-fiction full time. In 1982, at a panel for AAAI-82, he proposed that in the near future technology would accelerate the evolution of intelligence leading to a kind of "singularity" beyond which merely human extrapolation was essentially impossible. In the 1980s and 1990s, he elaborated on this theme, both in his science fiction and nonfiction. Vinge sold his first science-fiction story in 1964. His novella "True Names" (1981), is one of the earliest stories about cyberspace. His most recent novel, "Rainbows End" (2006), looks at the impact of wearable computing and smart environments on issues of entertainment, privacy, and terror. Vinge has won five Hugos, including three for best novel.

Advance Program

January 25

14:00 -

Registration

15:00 - 15:15

Opening

15:15 - 16:15

Keynote Talk

Experiments in Living in the Virtual/Physical World

Dr. Larry Smarr

17:00 -

Reception

January 26

9:00 - 10:30

Paper Presentation: Programming

Splish: A Visual Programming Environment for Arduino to Accelarate Physical Computing Experiences

Yoshiharu Kato

CodeTalk-Conversations About Code

Bastian Steinert, Marcel Taeumel, Jens Lincke, Tobias Pape and Robert Hirschfeld

The Collaboration Platform: a Cooperative Course Case-Study

Luís Duarte and Luís Carriço

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:30

Paper Presentation: Support for Understanding

Effects of All-for-one-type Support in Multilingual Conference Support System

Mai Miyabe and Takashi Yoshino

Using Zuzie2 to Exchange Viewpoints for a Broader Outlook

Koji Yokokawa and Takeshi Sunaga

Activity-aware chat system based on a study of distributed collaborative learning

Tomoo Inoue

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch Break

14:30 - 15:30

Keynote Talk

Technology and New Populisms

Dr. Vernor Vinge:

15:30 - 16:00

Break

16:00 - 17:00

Lab Tour (4K Auditorium, StarCAVE, VirtuLab, HIPerSpace)

January 27

9:00 - 10:30

Paper Presentation: Insight into Collaboration

An Agent-Based Approach to Evaluation of Workflow Support Systems

Hiroki Saito, Tetsuya Abe, Kenji Ohira, Kokolo Ikeda, Mikihiko Mori, Tetsutaro Uehara and Hajime Kita

A Comparison of Four Post-Cognitive Theories in Collaboration Context

George Mathew

The Unconventional Interaction Library: Tackling the Use of Physiological Interaction Modalities

Luís Duarte and Luís Carriço

10:30 - 11:00

Break

11:00 - 12:00

Paper Presentation: Mobile Ad-hoc Collaboration

A Serverless Instant Messaging Protocol for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

Anthony Urso

Overseer: A Mobile Context-Aware Collaboration and Task Management System for Disaster Response

Faisal Luqman and Martin Griss

12:00 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

Lightning Sessions

15:00 - 16:00

Lab Tour (4K Auditorium, StarCAVE, VirtuLab, HIPerSpace)

16:00 - 16:30

Closing