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Welcome to the iBRUSSELS workshop

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Unplanned, unexpected but important

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ETTERBEEKOndes Wifi manif. Ce jeudi 30 avril de 12 h 30 à 13 h 30 les ASBL Teslabel et Beperk de Straling manifesteront près de la VUB et de la gare d’Etterbeek. Elles protesteront contre les futurs développements et applications des technologies sans fil. Cette action est motivée par la conférence Wireless iBrussels que la VUB organise Lors de cette conférence chercheurs entrepreneurs et décideurs vont examiner comment les technologies sans fil peuvent continuer à se développer déplorent les associations.La Capitale 29.04.2009 AuxiPress,

…. Taken from a BELGA press release

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Apart from the workshop program …. Demo’s

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Ongoing project: start 15 February 2009

Core Partners: • IBBT: iLab.o The user studies group of IBBT• VUB: SMIT: Studies in Media and Information Technology• VUB:ETRO: Informatics and Electronics

In collaboration with:• Several communities of the Campus, • Specialized departments in application area’s• Technical and logistics departments of VUB

Supported and funded by:• BhG (CIBG)

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AirGraffiti (Kristof Michiels)

  Context aware urban mobile service

  - Provides a highly personalized city experience, tailored to specific interests, expectations and situation

  - Allows for dynamic in- & outdoor trails  - Uses GPS, QR-codes, RFID-tags  - Use cases: city trajectories, museum

guides, mobile quests, urban story telling

  - Today: Poster + limited demo on req.

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Mobileizer – Oyble (Kristof Michiels)

Multimodal group communication hub  - A platform that allows any group to stay

connected through a computer and/or a mobile phone

  - Uses SMS, e-mail, the web, an API and screen scraping

  - Embeddable widget allows subscription on every web site

  - Use cases: Student bodies organizing activities, Teachers sending students last-minute notices, communities keeping each other up to date

  - Today: Poster + demo at the boot

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Wayfinding 2.0 (Kristof Michiels)

  Sensor-based navigation experiment on the campus

  - Uses active nodes on the campus: displays + RFID readers attached.

  - Users navigate the campus with a passive RFID tag

  - Each node provides a visual queue & info on how to get to the next node

  - Dynamic trails with minimal configuration. Use cases: future events on the campus

  - Today: Poster (currently in early development)

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Mind The Step (Bart Jansen or Kristof Michiels)

  Community website for stimulating a healthy lifestyle.

  Diet is monitored through simple questionnaires.

  Physical activity is automatically monitored through a smart sensor.

  Will the community aspect improve compliance?

  We are targeting large employers to launch a competition among different departments.

  Today: Poster + sensor demo

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Mobile Museum Guide (Frederik Temmermans)

• A Museum Guide Platform that brings multimedia content to mobile devices.

• A solution for content management and distribution for museums.

• VUB-ETRO develops technology that allows querying the database with a picture of a painting.

• In October 2009 an exposition of artworks selected from the VUB art collection will be organized to demonstrate the framework and the recognition and retrieval functionality.

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QuTi - Mobile application for queue-sensitive events (Olga De Troyer)

What:• Real-time info about

waiting times and availability of products for queue-sensitive events

How:• Generic framework using:

Sensor technology for monitoring the traffic

Internet for communication Web as well as mobile

technology for consultation

Configurable per event

Demo application for the VUB restaurant

in October 2009

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Digiles: the lecture capture systemof the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Patrick Steen)

• Installation and exploitation of an automated system for digitalisation of all lecture aspects.

• Digital content is made available from the existing learning platform in diverse fromats, adapted to portable and fixed equipments

• Today: demo just before the start of the afternoon session – announcement will be made after lunch

  Capturing, editing, processing, hosting, playback

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Panopto CourseCast

SprekerHoofdschermNotities en zoekscherm (ook online wireless!)

Slides

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Time to start …

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First session:International Status Questionis