Location: Embedded System trackTime: 2007-11-13 16.20Level: Intermediate
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Prof. Boris Magnusson, Lund University, SwedenBoris Magnusson is a professor of Computer Science at LundUniversity. His research interests include Object-oriented programming, realtime systems, distributed systems, configuration management and Agile development methods such as XP. He has been active in many research projects, both at the national and international scene and active in organizing international conferences. He is currently the head of LUCAS, a centre at LTH for coordinating software research in collaboration with industry.
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PalCom - getting devices to talkAs computing technologies become an ever more ‘invisible´ and powerful part of our lives, it is crucial that people are supported in understanding what these technologies are doing and what they could do for them. The European research project PalCom develops the concept of ‘palpability´ for IT-design that fits the information age. By ‘palpable´ we mean ‘noticeable´ and ‘understandable´. Palpability is not a property of technology itself, but an effect of people's engagement with technologies, objects, and environments. For designers of pervasive computing, this means that they cannot design palpability into technologies. But they can design for palpability, to support people in making computing palpable. PalCom, short for ‘palpable computing´, is a European research project devoted to examine these challenges and designing for palpability. PalCom embraces ubiquitous computing - that is computing available in the environment and a multitude of everyday devices, connected, and partially automated - to be used for work and play. PalCom´s researchers develop prototypes of future palpable ubiquitous devices and services in collaboration with a number of users in different domains: healthcare, landscape architecture, emergency response. These prototypes run on (and inform the design of) a software architecture that seeks to increase interoperability and support for making computing palpable. (http://www.ist-palcom.org/ )
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