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SESSION: Keynote speaker
Emotion technology, wearables, and surprises
Rosalind Picard
SESSION: Activity recognition
Unsupervised recognition of interleaved activities of daily living through ontological and probabilistic reasoning
Daniele Riboni
Timo Sztyler
Gabriele Civitarese
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Learning from less for better: semi-supervised activity recognition via shared structure discovery
Lina Yao
Feiping Nie
Quan Z. Sheng
Tao Gu
Xue Li
Sen Wang
Human respiration detection with commodity wifi devices: do user location and body orientation matter?
Hao Wang
Daqing Zhang
Junyi Ma
Yasha Wang
Yuxiang Wang
Dan Wu
Tao Gu
Bing Xie
A weakly supervised activity recognition framework for real-time synthetic biology laboratory assistance
Chandrashekhar Lavania
Sunil Thulasidasan
Anthony LaMarca
Jeffrey Scofield
Jeff Bilmes
SESSION: Supporting the visually and motor impaired
UniPass: design and evaluation of a smart device-based password manager for visually impaired users
Natã M. Barbosa
Jordan Hayes
Yang Wang
Finding a store, searching for a product: a study of daily challenges of low vision people
Sarit Szpiro
Yuhang Zhao
Shiri Azenkot
CueSee: exploring visual cues for people with low vision to facilitate a visual search task
Yuhang Zhao
Sarit Szpiro
Jonathan Knighten
Shiri Azenkot
Situational impairments to mobile interaction in cold environments
Zhanna Sarsenbayeva
Jorge Goncalves
Juan García
Simon Klakegg
Sirkka Rissanen
Hannu Rintamäki
Jari Hannu
Vassilis Kostakos
SESSION: Living in smart homes
Selecting home appliances with smart glass based on contextual information
Quan Kong
Takuya Maekawa
Taiki Miyanishi
Takayuki Suyama
AirSense: an intelligent home-based sensing system for indoor air quality analytics
Biyi Fang
Qiumin Xu
Taiwoo Park
Mi Zhang
"It's like living with a friendly stranger": perceptions of personality traits in a smart home
Sarah Mennicken
Oliver Zihler
Frida Juldaschewa
Veronika Molnar
David Aggeler
Elaine May Huang
TableTalk: integrating personal devices and content for commensal experiences at the family dinner table
Hasan Shahid Ferdous
Bernd Ploderer
Hilary Davis
Frank Vetere
Kenton O'Hara
Geremy Farr-Wharton
Rob Comber
SESSION: Unobstrusive sensing and feedback
Exploring the design space of glanceable feedback for physical activity trackers
Rúben Gouveia
Fábio Pereira
Evangelos Karapanos
Sean A. Munson
Marc Hassenzahl
Verifiable smart packaging with passive RFID
Ge Wang
Chen Qian
Jinsong Han
Wei Xi
Han Ding
Zhiping Jiang
Jizhong Zhao
Device-free detection of approach and departure behaviors using backscatter communication
Han Ding
Chen Qian
Jinsong Han
Ge Wang
Zhiping Jiang
Jizhong Zhao
Wei Xi
Cognitive rhythms: unobtrusive and continuous sensing of alertness using a mobile phone
Saeed Abdullah
Elizabeth L. Murnane
Mark Matthews
Matthew Kay
Julie A. Kientz
Geri Gay
Tanzeem Choudhury
Passive and contactless epidermal pressure sensor printed with silver nano-particle ink
Takahiro Hashizume
Takuya Sasatani
Koya Narumi
Yoshiaki Narusue
Yoshihiro Kawahara
Tohru Asami
SESSION: Indoor localisation
Dynamic-MUSIC: accurate device-free indoor localization
Xiang Li
Shengjie Li
Daqing Zhang
Jie Xiong
Yasha Wang
Hong Mei
Indoor localization via multi-modal sensing on smartphones
Han Xu
Zheng Yang
Zimu Zhou
Longfei Shangguan
Ke Yi
Yunhao Liu
Predicting location semantics combining active and passive sensing with environment-independent classifier
Masaya Tachikawa
Takuya Maekawa
Yasuyuki Matsushita
Towards area classification for large-scale fingerprint-based system
Suining He
Jiajie Tan
S.-H. Gary Chan
Efficient calibration for rssi-based indoor localization by bayesian experimental design on multi-task classification
Masamichi Shimosaka
Osamu Saisho
SESSION: Interacting using the hands and eyes
WiFinger: talk to your smart devices with finger-grained gesture
Hong Li
Wei Yang
Jianxin Wang
Yang Xu
Liusheng Huang
Accuracy of interpreting pointing gestures in egocentric view
Deepak Akkil
Poika Isokoski
TextPursuits: using text for pursuits-based interaction and calibration on public displays
Mohamed Khamis
Ozan Saltuk
Alina Hang
Katharina Stolz
Andreas Bulling
Florian Alt
UbiTouch: ubiquitous smartphone touchpads using built-in proximity and ambient light sensors
Elliott Wen
Winston Seah
Bryan Ng
Xuefeng Liu
Jiannong Cao
TraceMatch: a computer vision technique for user input by tracing of animated controls
Christopher Clarke
Alessio Bellino
Augusto Esteves>
Eduardo Velloso
Hans Gellersen
SESSION: UbiComp in education
TalkLIME: mobile system intervention to improve parent-child interaction for children with language delay
Seokwoo Song
Seungho Kim
John Kim
Wonjeong Park
Dongsun Yim
EDUM: classroom education measurements via large-scale WiFi networks
Mengyu Zhou
Minghua Ma
Yangkun Zhang
Kaixin SuiA
Dan Pei
Thomas Moscibroda
Collective use of a fabric-based interactive surface to support early development in toddler classrooms
Franceli L. Cibrian
Nadir Weibel
Monica Tentori
Apps to measure motor skills of vocational workers
Bhanu Pratap Singh
Varun Aggarwal
SESSION: Sensing walking
WiDir: walking direction estimation using wireless signals
Dan Wu
Daqing Zhang
Chenren Xu
Yasha Wang
Hao Wang
Gait recognition using wifi signals
Wei Wang
Alex X. Liu
Muhammad Shahzad
Exploiting cyclic features of walking for pedestrian dead reckoning with unconstrained smartphones
Baoqi Huang
Guodong Qi
Xiaokun Yang
Long Zhao
Han Zou
iKneeBraces: knee adduction moment evaluation measured by motion sensors in gait detection
Hsin-Ruey Tsai
Shih-Yao Wei
Jui-Chun Hsiao
Ting-Wei Chiu
Yi-Ping Lo
Chi-Feng Keng
Yi-Ping Hung
Jin-Jong Chen
SESSION: Leveraging the crowd
TASKer: behavioral insights via campus-based experimental mobile crowd-sourcing
Thivya Kandappu
Nikita Jaiman
Randy Tandriansyah
Archan Misra
Shih-Fen Cheng
Cen Chen
Hoong Chuin Lau
Deepthi Chander
Koustuv Dasgupta
TaskMe: multi-task allocation in mobile crowd sensing
Yan Liu
Bin Guo
Yang Wang
Wenle Wu
Zhiwen Yu
Daqing Zhang
Sensus: a cross-platform, general-purpose system for mobile crowdsensing in human-subject studies
Haoyi Xiong
Yu Huang
Laura E. Barnes
Matthew S. Gerber
The night is young: urban crowdsourcing of nightlife patterns
Darshan Santani
Joan-Isaac Biel
Florian Labhart
Jasmine Truong
Sara Landolt
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Daniel Gatica-Perez
SESSION: Sound and audio
WalkieLokie: sensing relative positions of surrounding presenters by acoustic signals
Wenchao Huang
Xiang-Yang Li
Yan Xiong
Panlong Yang
Yiqing Hu
Xufei Mao
Fuyou Miao
Baohua Zhao
Jumin Zhao
Automated estimation of food type and amount consumed from body-worn audio and motion sensors
Mark Mirtchouk
Christopher Merck
Samantha Kleinberg
WritingHacker: audio based eavesdropping of handwriting via mobile devices
Tuo Yu
Haiming Jin
Klara Nahrstedt
AudioGest: enabling fine-grained hand gesture detection by decoding echo signal
Wenjie Ruan
Quan Z. Sheng
Lei Yang
Tao Gu
Peipei Xu
Longfei Shangguan
SESSION: User and behavior modeling and prediction I
Modelling smartphone usage: a markov state transition model
Vassilis Kostakos
Denzil Ferreira
Jorge Goncalves
Simo Hosio
Discovering different kinds of smartphone users through their application usage behaviors
Sha Zhao
Julian Ramos
Jianrong Tao
Ziwen Jiang
Shijian Li
Zhaohui Wu
Gang Pan
Anind K. Dey
The potential of physical motion cues: changing people's perception of robots' performance
Pedro Garcia Garcia
Enrico Costanza
Sarvapali D. Ramchurn
Jhim Kiel M. Verame
Differentiating smartphone users by app usage
Pascal Welke
Ionut Andone
Konrad Blaszkiewicz
Alexander Markowetz
SESSION: Security and privacy I
Privacy-friendly photo capturing and sharing system
Lan Zhang
Kebin Liu
Xiang-Yang Li
Cihang Liu
Xuan Ding
Yunhao Liu
Loca: a location-oblivious co-location attack in crowds
Roberto Pasqua
Matthieu Roy
Gilles Tredan
PrivCheck: privacy-preserving check-in data publishing for personalized location based services
Dingqi Yang
Daqing Zhang
Bingqing Qu
Philippe Cudré-Mauroux
A data hiding approach for sensitive smartphone data
Chu Luo
Angelos Fylakis
Juha Partala
Simon Klakegg
Jorge Goncalves
Kaitai Liang
Tapio Seppänen
Vassilis Kostakos
SESSION: Health I
Design and learnability of vortex whistles for managing chronic lung function via smartphones
Spencer Kaiser
Ashley Parks
Patrick Leopard
Charlie Albright
Jake Carlson
Mayank Goel
Damoun Nassehi
Eric C. Larson
Exploring glass as a novel method for hands-free data entry in flexible cystoscopy
Charles Templeman
Francisco Javier Ordóñez
Andrew Symes
Daniel Roggen
HemaApp: noninvasive blood screening of hemoglobin using smartphone cameras
Edward Jay Wang
William Li
Doug Hawkins
Terry Gernsheimer
Colette Norby-Slycord
Shwetak N. Patel
LumiO: a plaque-aware toothbrush
Takuma Yoshitani
Masa Ogata
Koji Yatani
Using passively collected sedentary behavior to predict hospital readmission
Sangwon Bae
Anind K. Dey
Carissa A. Low
SESSION: User and behavior modeling and prediction II
Engagement-aware computing: modelling user engagement from mobile contexts
Akhil Mathur
Nicholas D. Lane
Fahim Kawsar
Why would you do that? predicting the uses and gratifications behind smartphone-usage behaviors
Alexis Hiniker
Shwetak N. Patel
Tadayoshi Kohno
Julie A. Kientz
Cooperative
phoneotypes
: exploring phone-based behavioral markers of cooperation
Vivek K. Singh
Rishav R. Agarwal
Exploring space syntax on entrepreneurial opportunities with Wi-Fi analytics
Afra Mashhadi
Utku Günay Acer
Aidan Boran
Philipp M. Scholl
Claudio Forlivesi
Geert Vanderhulst
Fahim Kawsar
SESSION: Security and privacy II
Touch-and-guard: secure pairing through hand resonance
Wei Wang
Lin Yang
Qian Zhang
PERUIM: understanding mobile application privacy with permission-UI mapping
Yuanchun Li
Yao Guo
Xiangqun Chen
Location privacy for crowdsourcing applications
Ioannis Boutsis
Vana Kalogeraki
mSieve: differential behavioral privacy in time series of mobile sensor data
Nazir Saleheen
Supriyo Chakraborty
Nasir Ali
Md Mahbubur Rahman
Syed Monowar Hossain
Rummana Bari
Eugene Buder
Mani Srivastava
Santosh Kumar
SESSION: UbiComp in transportation
CityCoupling: bridging intercity human mobility
Zipei Fan
Xuan Song
Ryosuke Shibasaki
Tao Li
Hodaka Kaneda
DESTPRE: a data-driven approach to destination prediction for taxi rides
Mengwen Xu
Dong Wang
Jian Li
Is only one gps position sufficient to locate you to the road network accurately?
Hao Wu
Weiwei Sun
Baihua Zheng
CityProphet: city-scale irregularity prediction using transit app logs
Tatsuya Konishi
Mikiya Maruyama
Kota Tsubouchi
Masamichi Shimosaka
SESSION: Sensing and using emotion
EmotionCheck: leveraging bodily signals and false feedback to regulate our emotions
Jean Costa
Alexander T. Adams
Malte F. Jung
François Guimbetière
Tanzeem Choudhury
Learning from the ubiquitous language: an empirical analysis of emoji usage of smartphone users
Xuan Lu
Wei Ai
Xuanzhe Liu
Qian Li
Ning Wang
Gang Huang
Qiaozhu Mei
An affect detection technique using mobile commodity sensors in the wild
Aske Mottelson
Kasper Hornbæk
Shining (blue) light on creative ability
Saeed Abdullah
Mary Czerwinski
Gloria Mark
Paul Johns
SESSION: Supporting physically active lifestyle
Exploring user experiences of active workstations: a case study of under desk elliptical trainers
Woohyeok Choi
Aejin Song
Darren Edge
Masaaki Fukumoto
Uichin Lee
Technology meets adventure: learnings from an earthquake-interrupted Mt. everest expedition
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Sarah Jane Pell
Reconsidering the device in the drawer: lapses as a design opportunity in personal informatics
Daniel A. Epstein
Jennifer H. Kang
Laura R. Pina
James Fogarty
Sean A. Munson
Dynamic cluster-based over-demand prediction in bike sharing systems
Longbiao Chen
Daqing Zhang
Leye Wang
Dingqi Yang
Xiaojuan Ma
Shijian Li
Zhaohui Wu
Gang Pan
Thi-Mai-Trang Nguyen
Jérémie Jakubowicz
SESSION: Health II
Spotting prejudice with nonverbal behaviours
Andrea Palazzi
Simone Calderara
Nicola Bicocchi
Loris Vezzali
Gian Antonio di Bernardo
Franco Zambonelli
Rita Cucchiara
mCrave: continuous estimation of craving during smoking cessation
Soujanya Chatterjee
Karen Hovsepian
Hillol Sarker
Nazir Saleheen
Mustafa al'Absi
Gowtham Atluri
Emre Ertin
Cho Lam
Andrine Lemieux
Motohiro Nakajima
Bonnie Spring
David W. Wetter
Santosh Kumar
Domain adaptation methods for improving lab-to-field generalization of cocaine detection using wearable ECG
Annamalai Natarajan
Gustavo Angarita
Edward Gaiser
Robert Malison
Deepak Ganesan
Benjamin M. Marlin
CrossCheck: toward passive sensing and detection of mental health changes in people with schizophrenia
Rui Wang
Min S. H. Aung
Saeed Abdullah
Rachel Brian
Andrew T. Campbell
Tanzeem Choudhury
Marta Hauser
John Kane
Michael Merrill
Emily A. Scherer
Vincent W. S. Tseng
Dror Ben-Zeev
Assessing social anxiety using gps trajectories and point-of-interest data
Yu Huang
Haoyi Xiong
Kevin Leach
Yuyan Zhang
Philip Chow
Karl Fua
Bethany A. Teachman
Laura E. Barnes
SESSION: Images, videos and AR
ARTcode: preserve art and code in any image
Zhe Yang
Yuting Bao
Chuhao Luo
Xingya Zhao
Siyu Zhu
Chunyi Peng
Yunxin Liu
Xinbing Wang
Tell me what i see: recognize RFID tagged objects in augmented reality systems
Lei Xie
Jianqiang Sun
Qingliang Cai
Chuyu Wang
Jie Wu
Sanglu Lu
ROC comment: automated descriptive and subjective captioning of behavioral videos
Mohammad Rafayet Ali
Facundo Ciancio
Ru Zhao
Iftekhar Naim
Mohammed (Ehsan) Hoque
Interactive worker assistance: comparing the effects of in-situ projection, head-mounted displays, tablet, and paper instructions
Markus Funk
Thomas Kosch
Albrecht Schmidt
SpotGarbage: smartphone app to detect garbage using deep learning
Gaurav Mittal
Kaushal B. Yagnik
Mohit Garg
Narayanan C. Krishnan
SESSION: Power saving techniques for mobile computing
PADA: power-aware development assistant for mobile sensing applications
Chulhong Min
Seungchul Lee
Changhun Lee
Youngki Lee
Seungwoo Kang
Seungpyo Choi
Wonjung Kim
Junehwa Song
Crowdsensing-based smartphone use guide for battery life extension
Yohan Chon
GwangMin Lee
Rhan Ha
Hojung Cha
GreenTouch: transparent energy management for cellular data radios
Shravan Aras
Chris Gniady
AFV: enabling application function virtualization and scheduling in wearable networks
Harini Kolamunna
Yining Hu
Diego Perino
Kanchana Thilakarathna
Dwight Makaroff
Xinlong Guan
Aruna Seneviratne
SESSION: Predictive analytics
Test time feature ordering with FOCUS: interactive predictions with minimal user burden
Kirstin Early
Stephen E. Fienberg
Jennifer Mankoff
Looking back on the current day: interruptibility prediction using daily behavioral features
Minsoo Choy
Daehoon Kim
Jae-Gil Lee
Heeyoung Kim
Hiroshi Motoda
Predicting room occupancy with a single passive infrared (PIR) sensor through behavior extraction
Yordan P. Raykov
Emre Ozer
Ganesh Dasika
Alexis Boukouvalas
Max A. Little
Predicting user error for ambient systems by integrating model-based UI development and cognitive modeling
Marc Halbrügge
Michael Quade
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht
Sebastian Möller
Sahin Albayrak
SESSION: Urban sensing
Urban sensing based on human mobility
Shenggong Ji
Yu Zheng
Tianrui Li
Characterizing the life cycle of point of interests using human mobility patterns
Xinjiang Lu
Zhiwen Yu
Leilei Sun
Chuanren Liu
Hui Xiong
Chu Guan
Context-aware real-time population estimation for metropolis
Fengli Xu
Pengyu Zhang
Yong Li
Spatially fine-grained urban air quality estimation using ensemble semi-supervised learning and pruning
Ling Chen
Yaya Cai
Yifang Ding
Mingqi Lv
Cuili Yuan
Gencai Chen
SESSION: Sensing with smartphones and wearables
Toward practical factory activity recognition: unsupervised understanding of repetitive assembly work in a factory
Takuya Maekawa
Daisuke Nakai
Kazuya Ohara
Yasuo Namioka
Enabling on-body transmissions with commodity devices
Mehrdad Hessar
Vikram Iyer
Shyamnath Gollakota
Wearable sensor based multimodal human activity recognition exploiting the diversity of classifier ensemble
Haodong Guo
Ling Chen
Liangying Peng
Gencai Chen
μEMA: Microinteraction-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) using a smartwatch
Stephen Intille
Caitlin Haynes
Dharam Maniar
Aditya Ponnada
Justin Manjourides
SESSION: Real-world navigation and exploration
Lets not stare at smartphones while walking: memorable route recommendation by detecting effective landmarks
Shoko Wakamiya
Hiroshi Kawasaki
Yukiko Kawai
Adam Jatowt
Eiji Aramaki
Toyokazu Akiyama
ALPS: accurate landmark positioning at city scales
Yitao Hu
Xiaochen Liu
Suman Nath
Ramesh Govindan
AutoLabel: labeling places from pictures and websites
Rufeng Meng
Sheng Shen
Romit Roy Choudhury
Srihari Nelakuditi
Probing the interconnections between geo-exploration and information exploration behavior
Dongho Choi
Chirag Shah
Vivek Singh
SESSION: Sustainable ubicomp
How does eco-coaching help to save energy? assessing a recommendation system for energy-efficient thermostat scheduling
Rayoung Yang
Devika Pisharoty
Soodeh Montazeri
Kamin Whitehouse
Mark W. Newman
FORCES: feedback and control for occupants to refine comfort and energy savings
Daniel A. Winkler
Alex Beltran
Niloufar P. Esfahani
Paul P. Maglio
Alberto E. Cerpa
Genie: a longitudinal study comparing physical and software thermostats in office buildings
Bharathan Balaji
Jason Koh
Nadir Weibel
Yuvraj Agarwal
ThermalSense: determining dynamic thermal comfort preferences using thermographic imaging
Juhi Ranjan
James Scott
SESSION: Notifcations and scheduling
PrefMiner: mining user's preferences for intelligent mobile notification management
Abhinav Mehrotra
Robert Hendley
Mirco Musolesi
Context-aware application scheduling in mobile systems: what will users do and not do next?
Joohyun Lee
Kyunghan Lee
Euijin Jeong
Jaemin Jo
Ness B. Shroff
A contextual collaborative approach for app usage forecasting
Yingzi Wang
Nicholas Jing Yuan
Yu Sun
Fuzheng Zhang
Xing Xie
Qi Liu
Enhong Chen
In-situ investigation of notifications in multi-device environments
Dominik Weber
Alexandra Voit
Philipp Kratzer
Niels Henze