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Fourth International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services

October 11–12, 2012 | Seattle, Washington, United States

MobiCASE 2012 Program Schedule



Thursday, October 11, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Opening Remarks
Keynote Address

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 1: Mobile Application Development

  • mConcAppt: A Method for the Conception of Mobile Business Applications
    Steffen Hess (Fraunhofer IESE)
    Ralf Carbon (Fraunhofer IESE)
    Felix Kiefer (Fraunhofer IESE)
    Andreas Maier (Fraunhofer IESE)

  • Mapping Objective-C API to Java
    Arno Puder (San Francisco State University)
    Spoorthi D'Silva (San Francisco State University)

  • A Reference Architecture for Group-Context-Aware Mobile Applications
    Grace Lewis (CMU Software Engineering Institute)
    Marc Novakouski (CMU Software Engineering Institute)
    Enrique Sanchez (CMU Software Engineering Institute)

  • Mobile Apps Development: A Framework for Technology Decision Making
    Emiliano Masi (FIZ Karlsruhe)
    Giovanni Cantone (DICII, University of Roma Tor Vergata)
    Giuseppe Calavaro (IBM Italia SpA)
    Paolo Subiaco (IBM Italia SpA)
    Manuel Mastrofini (DICII, University of Roma Tor Vergata)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

Session 2: Multi-Dimensional Interactions

  • "TactiGlove" - A Guidance System to Effectively Find Hidden Spots in 3D Space
    Georg Stevenson (Johannes Kepler University Linz)
    Andreas Riener (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

  • Towards Multimodal 3D Tabletop Interaction using Sensor Equipped Mobile Devices
    Florian Klompmaker (University of Paderborn, C-LAB)
    Karsten Nebe (Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences)
    Julien Eschenlohr (University of Paderborn)

  • Multimodal Mobile Collaboration Prototype used in a Find, Fix, and Tag Scenario
    Gregory Burnett (Air Force Research Laboratory)
    Thomas Wischgoll (Wright State University)
    Victor Finomore (Air Force Research Laboratory)
    Andres Calvo (Ball Aerospace Corp.)

  • Metric Based Automatic Event Segmentation
    Yuwen Zhuang (The Ohio State University)
    Mikhail Belkin (The Ohio State University)
    Simon J. Dennis (The Ohio State University)
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM Demo / Poster session
6:00PM - 8:30 PM Dinner
Friday, October 12, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Speaker Panel
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Session: System Support and Architecture

  • Visage: A Face Interpretation Engine for Smartphone Applications
    Xiaochao Yang (Dartmouth College)
    Chuang-Wen You (Dartmouth College)
    Hong Lu (Intel Lab)
    Mu Lin (Dartmouth College)
    Nicholas D. Lane (Microsoft Research Asia)
    Andrew Campbell (Dartmouth College)

  • Multilevel and Secure Services on a Fleet of Mobile Phones: the Multilevel Secured Messaging Application (MuSMA)
    Jonathan Ouoba (LaBRI/University of Bordeaux)
    Serge Chaumette (LaBRI/University of Bordeaux)

  • vUPS: Virtually Unifying Personal Storage for Fast and Pervasive Data Accesses
    Mohammed Hassan (George Mason University)
    Kshitiz Bhattarai (George Mason University)
    Songqing Chen (George Mason University)
10:45 PM - 11:15 PM Break
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Session 4: Mobile Applications

  • LineKing: Crowdsourced Line Wait-Time Estimation using Smartphones
    Muhammed Fatih Bulut (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
    Yavuz Selim (Yilmaz University at Buffalo, SUNY)
    Murat Demirbas (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
    Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu (THK University)
    Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Bilkent University)

  • Zoowey: A Mobile Application for Riyadh Zoo
    Aise Zulal Sevkli (King Saud University)
    Lama Al-meshkhas (King Saud University)

  • FlexiSketch: A Mobile Sketching and Modeling Tool
    Dustin Wueest (University of Zurich)
    Norbert Seyff (University of Zurich)
    Martin Glinz (University of Zurich)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Session 5: Mobile Services

  • Achieving Targeted Mobile Advertisements while Respecting Privacy
    Elia Palme (ETH Zurich)
    Basil Hess (ETH Zurich)
    Juliana Sutanto (ETH Zurich)

  • Towards Timely and Efficient Semantic Reasoning for the Networked Society
    Bo Xing (Ericsson Research, USA)
    Johan Hjelm (Ericsson Research, Japan)
    Takeshi Matsumura (Ericsson Research, Japan)
    Shingo Murakami (Ericsson Research, Japan)
    Toshikane Oda (Ericsson Research, Japan)
    Andrew Ton (Ericsson Research, USA)

  • A Reference Architecture for Mobile Code Offload in Hostile Environments
    Kiryong Ha (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)
    Soumya Simanta (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
    Grace Lewis (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
    Ed Morris (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University)
    Mahadev Satyanarayanan (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)

  • Nihao: A Predictive Smartphone Application Launcher
    Chunhui Zhang (UMass Lowell)
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Closing remarks, Keynote, Awards
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Cocktails