Pervasive 2010 conference

Here are couple of selected papers from Pervasive 2010 conference held in May, Helsinki, Finland

• Supporting Energy-Efficient Uploading Strategies for Continuous Sensing Applications on Mobile Phones a novel strategy for continuous data sensor uploading
• Virtual Compass: Relative Positioning to Sense Mobile Social Interactions a peer-based relative positioning system that relies solely on the hardware and operating system support available on commodity mobile handhelds
• Object-Based Activity Recognition with Heterogeneous Sensors on Wrist extracting characteristic colors of daily activities for doing activity recognition using an interesting device prototype mounted on the wrist
• Common Sense Community: Scaffolding Mobile Sensing and Analysis for Novice Users (best paper) more information can be find here
• Aided Eyes: Eye Activity Sensing for Daily Life (best video award) real-time measurement of eye movement for human memory enhancement
• GasSense: Appliance-Level, Single-Point Sensing of Gas Activity in the Home using a microphone sensor for monitoring ans sensing gas activity in the home
• My 2 cents - sharing comments about retail products on Twitter (best poster)
• 12Pixels: Exploring Social Drawing on Mobile Phones (best paper presentation)a novel application and social web service that allows people to create and share drawings directly from a regular mobile phone

Make an eyetracker by yourself

Here are couple of useful links for those who are interested in building an eye tracker by themselves:

http://code.google.com/p/eyewriter/downloads/list
http://www.eyewriter.org
http://www.instructables.com/id/The-EyeWriter/

If you know any other links please add it to the comment. Thanks in advance.

Revue: Microsoft SenseCam is now commercially available

SenseCam a sensor augmented wearable camera from Microsoft Research Center is now commercially available at ViconRevue. The camera is designed to capture a digital record of the wearer’s day, by recording a series of images and capturing a log of sensor data.