RelateGateways: Using Spatial Context to
Identify and Interact with Pervasive Services
Our everyday life is surrounded by pervasive services such as those offered by printers, public displays, multimedia systems, workstations, etc. While on the run we should be able to use the mobile devices we carry along to interact with these services. Yet, a number of studies have shown that it is rather complicated for users to identify available services in an unknown context. The RelateGateways project extends the mobile desktop with a new kind of widget: the gateways. These components are arranged around the edge of the screen, pointing towards the co-located services. Once identified, a service can be consumed in a consistent manner by dragging-and-dropping an object on the gateway, without the need for the user to install, configure or learn how to use yet another system for each service.

Demonstration at the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Austria, September 2007

Demonstration at the 2nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2007), UK, October 2007.

RFID: Concepts, Application Domains and Implementation
Presenting the RFIDLocator framework and the SmartBadge Project.

At Jazoon'07 - The International Conference on Java Technology, June 24-28, Zurich, Switzerland.

Extending Mobile Devices with Spatially Arranged Gateways to Pervasive Services
Discovery and interaction with services is as much a user interface problem as a networking problem. In this paper we introduce a system in which mobile devices are seamlessly extended with Gateways to services in their environment. The gateways are realized as widgets that are arranged around the edge of the mobile device's user interface to indicate the direction of discovered services, thus providing the user with an overview of interaction opportunities. The gateways also afford direct access to services integrate with the device's interface, for example supporting drag-and-drop of objects to a gateway and through the gateway to the corresponding service.

3rd International Workshop on Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices (PERMID 2007) - Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices -
Workshop at the Pervasive 2007, Sunday May 13, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

In Mobile Spatial Interaction in conjunction with
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose CA, USA, CHI 2007 - Reach Beyond

Building a Smart Hospital using RFID technologies
Technologies of identification by radio frequencies (RFID) experience a fast development and healthcare is predicted to be one of its major growth areas. After briefly introducing the common terminology of the RFID field and its current standards,
this paper describes how this emerging technology can be used to build a smart hospital...

RoamBlog
RoamBlog is a mobile ubiquitous computing architecture that enables roaming internet users equipped with mobile networked devices such as Smartphones, PDAs and JavaPhones to continuously interact with geo-contextualized services. Within the RoamBlog architecture, we propose a novel user interface for mobile ubiquitous computing systems, the Kinetic User Interface (KUI), where physical motion along geographical locations is recognized as an "embodied" pointing device. We present a few usage scenarios for which applications have been designed on top of the RoamBlog architecture.

In Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tool (DART 06), The Future of Search Engines' Technologies, Italy.

Implementing Business Rules using Aspect Oriented Programming
This paper discusses the use of woven business rules for enterprise systems, focusing on the use of the Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) paradigm in order to inject rules into both legacy and new business architectures.
Keywords: AOP, Aspect Oriented Programming, Business Rules, Rules engines, JSR 94, Jess, SOA,Service Oriented Architectures.

In Proceedings of the Master Seminar - Advanced Software Engineering Topics: Aspect Oriented Programming, June 2006, Fribourg, Switzerland, Patrik Fuhrer; Jacques Pasquier (Eds.), pp. 53-76.

RFID: From Concepts to Concrete Implementation
P. Fuhrer, D. Guinard and O. Liechti.

In International Conference on Advances in the Internet, Processing, Systems and Interdisciplinary Research, IPSI - 2006 Marbella, February 10-13 2006, Marbella, Spain.

RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
Applications, Outils Logiciels et Vision Future:
The RFIDLocator, an RFID application for tracking assets within a predefined area (set of buildings, hospital, etc.)

Presented at: RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
Applications, Outils Logiciels et Vision Future, December 2 2005
University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

A demonstration of Sun Java System Portal Server:
The Rise Banking Portal.
This document is an overview of a project realized at Sun Microsystems Switzerland. The work consisted in the design and implementation of a portable Portal Server (JSR168 Compliant).

TUI and Media:
An article reflecting the disserting about the use of Tangible User Interfaces in the domain of Media (Multimedia) manipulation.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), The RFIDLocator:
Evaluation of the Technology Supporting the Development of an Assets Tracking Application.
Bachelor Thesis.