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SUMMARY:AWARE: Human & Social Context For Wellbeing - Denzil Ferreira (Uni
 versity of Oulu)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:Mobile phones have an increasing spectrum of built-in sensors\
 , such as motion\, light\, atmospheric pressure. These sensors are primari
 ly used to enhance the user experience with the device\, such as detecting
  the screen orientation. More important for scientists\, these sensors off
 er the potential to sense and reason about the user’s environment\, or i
 n other words\, the user’s context. Mobile phones are the most widesprea
 d personal sensing device and provide an exciting opportunity for wider cr
 oss-disciplinary research to attain a better understanding of human behavi
 our by analysing the users’ unique context.\n\nYet the biggest challenge
  in conducting user studies is the scientists’ need to build software an
 d logging tools from scratch\, often without proper development experience
 \, over and over again. More critically\, multidisciplinary research becom
 es increasingly challenging due to the diversity of applications and envir
 onments. Researchers have no infrastructure support for exchanging their e
 xpertise and to collaborate locally or remotely. AWARE focuses on an infra
 structure for sensing behavioural and social context from mobile phones se
 nsors\, to enable a better understanding of human and social behaviour\, a
 nd to improve users’ understanding of their own quality of life. More im
 portantly\, it is a platform that supports reuse and sharing of mobile-bas
 ed behavioural and social context and researchers’ expertise.\n\nBio: Fe
 rreira's research is on leveraging mobile technologies to improve people
 ’s lives\, understanding people’s frustrations and fix them! He is col
 laborating with Centre of Environmental Respiratory Health at the Institut
 e of Health Sciences\, in Oulu\, Finland and the World Health Organization
  to develop and evaluate tools for better understanding how mobility and s
 ocial context affects your wellbeing and others. He is a member of COMAG (
 http://comag.oulu.fi) research group at the Department of Computer Science
  & Engineering in University of Oulu\, and also a member of UbicompLab res
 earch group at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon
  University.\n\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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