Posters for UbiComp 2006 Accepted

My poster “Towards Design Strategies to Deal with Spatial Uncertainty in Location-Aware Systems” (Girardin, F., Nova, N., Blat, J.) has been accepted for UbiComp 2006 in Orange County, CA. Not surprisingly, the reviewer expect more preliminary insight or analysis. One feedback mentioned that I should relate my categories of reactions to spatial uncertainty according to the context and not the system.

In addition, Nicolas’ poster “Investigating How Automatic Disclosure of Partners’ Location Influences Mobile Coordination” (Nova, N., Girardin, F., Dillenbourg, P.) has also been accepted.

Relation to my thesis: An important milestone validating my first 10 months. One reviewer commented that he/she would like to see a submission of a full paper on the lessons learned and insight gained from the field study. I have the feeling this has mainly already been done by Benford et al. in Bridging the Physical and Digital in Pervasive Gaming and Can you See Me Now?. I might be writing such a paper with Mike Blackstock and Nicolas Nova on the lessons learned from the design and deployment of a pervasive game. The idea would be to coin the issues/challenges (constraints of location technologies, location awareness, spatial uncertainty) in performing a field study in form of a pervasive game as well as describing the impacts on the users and administrators.

Time now to learn how to analyze the CatchBob! data and think of a second experiment.