UbiCollab project
UbiCollab (Ubiquitous Collaboration) vision is about supporting natural collaboration using mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies. UbiCollab provides a unique opportunity to you as a student to perform your master's thesis in a vibrant and dynamic research and development environment. UbiCollab is a platform in constant development, and you can be part of it. UbiCollab code is provided as open source and is used in a number of national and international projects. This means you as a participant in UbiCollab will get in touch with top researchers in Europe and elsewhere. UbiCollab is being implemented in Java programming language using state-of-the-art technologies such as OSGi, JXTA, XML, distributed computing, and awareness technologies. Read more....
New paper on resource management accepted to AmI 2010 conference
Simone and Babak have been co-authoring a paper which is accepted for publication at the AmI 2010 conference in Málaga, Spain.
Waqas and Yngvar have delivered!
This summer both Yngvar and Waqas delivered their theses and are now free men. We congratulate both of them and wish them good luck with new challenges.
UbiCollab @ MIT Seanseable City Lab
Hello!
As part of my visit at MIT, I got the opportunity to attend a Pecha-Kucha session at Senseable City lab!
If you don't know what a Pecha-Kucha just think on a fast run of talks about ideas, designs and concepts where each presentation consists in 20 slides in a row showed for 20 seconds per slide! Read more....
UbiCollab at the UBI Summer School, Oulu (Finland)
Hello!
I'm just back from Finland where I was a participant at the 1st UBI Summer School.
Together with over 70 young researcher from 20 countries, I attended hands-on workshops held by 7 high-skilled professors and researchers in the Ubiquitous Computing, Context-awareness and Urban Interactions fields. Read more....
Simone made it!
Simone Mora did an excellent defence of his thesis at Bergamo University in Italy, scoring 10/10 on his defence and a total score of 103/110 for his Master's degree. Congratulations from the UbiCollab Team! Read more....
Waqas Hussain Siddiqui to work on space management module in UbiCollab
Waqas has done his autumn project in the area of location-based services. He will now work more specifically on the space management module in UbiCollab. The goal is to deliver a prototype that will be demonstrated together with Yngvar's service management modules. Welcome Waqas!
Yngvar Kristiansen to work on service management in UbiCollab
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ngvar is taking up the work done by Kim and Simone, and will work on a project task to produce a complete version of the Service Domain Manager. Yngvar has worked with location technologies and has done iPhone development in his earlier project. We welcome Yngvar as a team member and looking forward to more demo's!
Simone Mora has finalized his diploma work
We congratulate Simone for the nice job! After some hectic late night working and finishing, the thesis is delivered. Read more....
UbiCollab video is now available from our media page.
I have now uploaded the famous UbiCollab video from 2004 to our media page. After almost 5 years it is still quite impressive!
This video shows how a meeting is set up from a PDA, and people invited. It then shows how two of the meeting participants connect to devices in a meeting room, invite a third person who is actually traveling, how a presentation is shared among the three.
The version demonstrated in the video is now replaced with the OSGi-based version we are currently developing. Read more....
