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EIS 2007 paper accepted!

Yesterday, we were informed that the paper we submitted for Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 was accepted. It’s also my first publication where I’m the first author

The paper describes a way to augment semantic service descriptions with high-level user interface models. The resulting service description is called a service-interaction description. This approach allows a service to present a suitable user interface (for interacting with it) on a wide variety of target platforms. We also introduce a semantic network built on top of the UIML vocabulary. More on that in a later post.

More details about the paper can be found at my publications page.

EDM News

It’s been a while since my last post, so this is a quick update of what’s been happening lately.

On Monday and Tuesday the TAMODIA 2006 workshop was hosted at our institute. I joined a few interesting sessions. It was nice to meet again a lot of people I saw earlier this year at CADUI 2006. We also had an interesting keynote by Joëlle Coutaz.

Yesterday, my office mate Jan succesfully defended his dissertation, titled High-Level User Interface Models for Model-Driven Design of Context-Sensitive User Interfaces. So we can call him dr. Jan now

Johan Nulens joined the EDM team as well, and is now working in the Computer Graphics group.

Fridays talks kickoff

Today Lode will give the first of a series of internal talks at our group. He will talk about multimodal interaction in virtual environments.

I’m looking forward to it, as these talks should be interesting to start some discussion.

My own talk will introduce semantic web technologies, and is due on September 8.

CADUI 2006

This week, I was in Bucharest for CADUI 2006. I presented the demo paper Kris, Kristof and I submitted for the conference (A Generic Approach for Multi-Device User Interface Rendering with UIML). Actually I am still in Bucharest at the moment, tomorrow I’m flying back to Belgium.

CADUI was the first conference I ever attended. At first, I didn’t really know what to expect, but it turned out to be a very pleasant experience. I met a lot of nice people, and saw interesting talks. CADUI is a very friendly conference, which resulted in a comfortable atmosphere that only further fueled the interaction.

After the last presentation today, there were books handed out from Springer-Verlag for the best paper and best talk, and also a lottery giving away another four books amongst the participants of the conference. The best paper was A Generic Approach for Pen-based User Interface Development by S. Mancé and E. Anquetil, which describes a pretty impressive system.

First I won a book from the lottery, and then I also got the best talk award! So my backpack is going to be a bit heavier on the way back I guess

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