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Mr. Thomas Riisgaard Hansen
University of Aarhus
Ph.D.
Denmark
Thomas Riisgaard Hansen, Ph.D., is a researcher at University of Aarhus, Denmark where he works on how to design for, and interact, with pervasive and mobile devices and computers. He has been working with the S60 platform for more than four years and has developed a number of novel and innovative applications, which have been published and presented worldwide. The AwarePhone is e.g. a commercially available application designed for hospital work where doctors can follow the progress in different operating rooms and communicate with co-workers and key-locations. The Mixed Interaction Space suite of applications shows how computer vision can be optimized to run on mobile devices and demonstrates e.g. real time face tracking on mobile devices. His current research interest is especially focused on integrating mobile devices with existing nearby computer technology and with the emergent area of web technology for mobile devices.
Development Areas of Interest
Mobile platforms
S60, Linux platforms
Application categories
Medical applications, consumer applications
Programming languages
C++, Java, Python, Flash, Web technologies
Personal Competencies
Mobile competencies
Programming and developing mobile and pervasive distributed applications (all languages)
Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name
thomasrdk
Main Achievements
Applications
Information about developed and published applications can be found at: www.pervasive-interaction.org.
Books and other publications
Thesis and Dissertation- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, "Pervasive Interaction - Designing interactive pervasive systems for complex work environments" (2006), PhD Dissertation
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, "Technology support for the initiation of collaboration on a hospital ward explored through an experiment" (2000), Master Thesis
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Bardram, Jakob E., Soegaard, Mads, Moving out of the Laboratory: Deploying Pervasive Technologies in a Hospital, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue, July-September 2006 (Vol. 5, No. 3), 2006:24-31.
- Eriksson, Eva, Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Lykke-Olesen Andreas, Movement-Based Interaction in Camera Spaces – A Conceptual Framework, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Movement Based Design, To appear 2006.
- Eriksson, Eva, Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Lykke-Olesen Andreas, "Reclaiming Public Space - Designing for Public Interaction with Private Devices", in Proceedings of Tangible and Embedded Interaction '07, ACM Press 2007.
- Hansen, T. R. Strings of experiments: looking at the design process as a set of socio-technical experiments. In Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Participatory Design: Expanding Boundaries in Design - Volume 1 (Trento, Italy, August 01 - 05, 2006). PDC '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2006:1-10.
- Bardram, Jakob E., Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Soegaard, Mads, AwareMedia -- A Shared Interactive Display Supporting Social, Temporal, and Spatial Awareness in Surgery, To appear in Proceeding of Computer Supported Collaborative Work, ACM Press, 2006.
- Bardram, Jakob E., Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Mogensen, Martin, Soegaard, Mads, Experiences from Real-world Deployment of Context-Aware Technologies in a Hospital Environment, To appear in Proceedings of the UbiComp Conference 2006.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Eriksson, Eva, Lykke-Olesen Andreas, Mixed Interaction Space – Expanding the Interaction Space with Mobile Devices, People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture, Proceedings of British HCI, Springer 2005.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Bardram, Jakob E., ActiveTheatre - a Collaborative, Event-based Capture and Access System for the Operating Theatre. In Proceedings of UbiComp 2005, volume 3660 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Toyko, Japan, October 2005. Springer Verlag, 2005:375–392.
- Bardram, Jakob E., Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, The AWARE Architecture: Supporting Context-Mediated Social Awareness in Mobile Cooperation, Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press 2004: 192-201.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, "Swapper a self organizing automatic context visualization", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on DB and IS, Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University: 189 – 200 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=648170.750675, 2002.
- Hansen, T. R., Eriksson, E., and Lykke-Olesen, A. Use your head: exploring face tracking for mobile interaction. In CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 - 27, 2006). CHI '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 2006:845-850.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Lykke-Olesen Andreas, Mixed Interaction Spaces – Designing for Camera Based Interaction with Mobile Devices, Extended proceedings of CHI (2005)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, J. Mikael Eklund, Jonathan Sprinkle, Ruzena Bajcsy and Shankar Sastry, Using Smart Sensors and a Camera Phone to Detect and Verify the Fall of Elderly Persons, Published: 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) (2005)
- Eklund, J.M.; Sprinkle, J.; Sastry, S.; Hansen, T.R., Information Technology for Assisted Living at Home: building a wireless infrastructure for assisted living, Published: 27th Annual International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 01-04 Sept. 2005 Page(s):3931 – 3934.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, SpaceExplorer – A Ubiquitous Web Browser Extension for Spatial Web pages on Multiple Devices, Workshop on Multiple and Ubiquitous Interaction, Aarhus 2007.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Pervasive Mashups, Danish HCI Research Symposium, Aarhus, Denmark 2006.
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, "Parallel Objects of Interests within Hospitals - studying the relationship between a patient and the digital representation", Healthcare Workshop at the PDC Conference, Trento, Italy, (2006).
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Søgaard, Mads, Bardram, Jakob, Pervasive Interaction – Using movement and speech to interact with computers, CHI, Montreal, Canada (2006)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Context-Mediated Social Awareness and Some Future Challenges for Awareness Research Thomas Riisgaard Hansen Workshop: Awareness workshop, CHI Conference, Portland, US (2005)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Eriksson, Eva and Lykke-Olesen, Andreas, Movement and Space – Exploring the Space in Movement based Interaction, Approaches to Movement-based Interaction, Critical Computing Conference, Aarhus, Denmark (2005)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Interaction with multiple devices in hospitals, The Spaces in-between: Seamful vs. Seamless Interactions, UbiComp Conference, Tokyo, Japan (2005)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Interacting with computers that support clinical work, Healthcare workshop, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) Conference, Chicago, US (2004)
- Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard, Interaction without Keyboard and Mouse, UbiHealth workshop, Ubiquitous Computing Conference, Nottingham, UK (2004)
Speaking engagements
Selected list with focus on mobile technology
2006:
- “Healthcare for rural areas”, Presentation of the challenges for IT in Healthcare for rural areas for TDC, Middelfart, Denmark
- “iHospital and ImageCup”, a presentation of the iHospital at the Microsoft’s ImageCup competition, Oslo, Norway.
- “Face tracking with Mixed Interaction Spaces” Poster presentation at the Human factors in Computing (CHI 2006), Montreal, Canada.
- “Mixed Interaction Space”, Demonstration of the Mixed Interaction Technique, S60 summit (Nokia), Nice, France
- "ActiveTheatre – Capture and Access applications in the operating theatre", UbiComp conference, Tokyo, Japan.
- "Programming Mobile Phones", Chess Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, US.
- "Mixed Interaction spaces – using computer vision on mobile phones", CHI conference, Portland, US.
- "The AWARE Architecture", CSCW conference, Chicago, US.
- "Java for Mobility", JAOO Cannes, Cannes, France.
Awards
2007: Forum Nokia Champion
2006: Among the top six worldwide teams and finalist in Microsoft International competition ImageCup focusing on software development.
2001: Won the third prize in Sonofon’s international prize competition with a collection of essays concerning how to design technology with focus on the needs of the human user.
Hosted Web pages
http://www.daimi.au.dk/mobile
http://www.pervasive-interaction.org
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~thomasr
Contact Information
email address
thomasrATdaimi.au.dk
