Keynote Speaker

Mr. Robert Gilmore
Vice President, Engineering
QUALCOMM, Inc.

Rob Gilmore serves as Vice President, ASIC Engineering in QUALCOMM's Corporate Research and Development having re-joined QUALCOMM in March, 2008. Mr. Gilmore has more than 30 years experience in engineering, communication systems design and development. Mr. Gilmore joined QUALCOMM as the ninth employee in October, 1985. His experience includes Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering where he was responsible for the OmniTRACS production system, early testing of the CDMA cellular system, the Globalstar ground segment including gateways, phones and system engineering, and served as Senior Vice President of Engineering for the Consumer Products Division. From 2000-2008 Rob worked at Mobilian Corporation, Via Technology and Nextwave Inc. He worked at Linkabit Corporation from 1978 until 1984 and was a founder and employee of ComStream Corporation from 1984 – 1985. Mr. Gilmore began his career as a co-op student at Bell Laboratories, where he worked both in digital radio and in satellite research. He earned his BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Each talk will be 15 minutes in length followed by some paper-specific Q&A. At the end of each session, there will be a discussion chaired by the session chair that will solicit deeper thoughts about the session topic.

Day One: Tuesday, February 28th

08:00 Registration Open
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30 Opening Session
Opening Remarks
Keynote
Your Life on a Smartphone
Robert Gilmore
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session 1: Advertising
Session chair: Landon Cox
Mitigating the True Cost of Advertisement-Supported "Free" Mobile Applications
Azeem Khan, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, and Archan Misra (Singapore Management University) and Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Full paper
Don't kill my ads! Balancing Privacy in an Ad-Supported Mobile Application Market
Ilias Leontiadis and Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge), Marco Picone (University of Parma), and Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)
Full paper
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 2: Infrastructure & Tools Support + Doct. Consort. Talks
Session chair: Nigel Davies
Crowd (Soft) Control: Moving Beyond Opportunistic Sensing
John Rula and Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University)
Full paper
Code In The Air: Simplifying Sensing and Coordination Tasks on Smartphones
Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, and Samuel Madden (MIT)
Full paper
Doctoral Consortium
Exploiting mobile computing to support healthy living through strength training
Igor Pernek (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Supporting More Efficient Communications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks with New Constructs Based on a Virtualization Layer
Jack Fernando Bravo-Torres (Salesian Polytechnic University, Ecuador)
Audio-WiFi: Audio Channel Assisted WiFi Network for Smart Phones
Mostafa Abdulla Uddin (Old Dominion University, USA)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Session 3: Applications
Session chair: Roy Want
WalkSafe: A Pedestrian Safety App for Mobile Phone Users Who Walk and Talk While Crossing Roads
Tianyu Wang (Computer Science Dartmouth College), Giuseppe Cardone and Antonio Corradi (University of Bologna), and Lorenzo Torresani and Andrew T. Campbell (Computer Science Dartmouth College)
Full paper
EyeGuardian: A Framework of Eye Tracking and Blink Detection for Mobile Device Users
Sungwon Yang, Seongwon Han, Jihyoung Kim, and Mario Gerla (UCLA)
Full paper
16:30 – 17:00Primer for Demo & Poster Session
Session chair: Janne Lindqvist
17:30 – 19:00 Demo & Poster Session
19:00 – 21:00 Banquet / Outrageous Opinions Session

Day Two: Wednesday, February 29th

08:00 Registration Open
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00 Session 4: Vision
Session chair: Robin Kravets
An Amulet for trustworthy wearable mHealth
Jacob Sorber (Dartmouth College), Minho Shin (Myongji University), and Ronald Peterson, Cory Cornelius, Shrirang Mare, Aarathi Prasad, Zachary Marois, Emma Smithayer, and David Kotz (Dartmouth College)
Full paper
Sixth Sense Transport: Challenges in Supporting Flexible Time Travel
Nigel Davies and Manfred Lau (Lancaster University), Chris Speed (Edinburgh University), Tom Cherrett (Southampton University), Janet Dickinson (Bournemouth University), and Sarah Norgate (Salford University)
Full paper
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Session 5 : Security & Networking
Session chair: Sharad Agarwal
ACCessory: Keystroke Inference using Accelerometers on Smartphones
Emmanuel Owusu, Jun Han, Sauvik Das, Adrian Perrig, and Joy Zhang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Full paper
Celleration: Loss-Resilient Traffic Redundancy Elimination for Cellular Data
Eyal Zohar, Israel Cidon (Technion), and Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn (Tel Aviv Academic College)
Full paper
United We Find: Enabling Mobile Devices to Cooperate for Efficient Neighbor Discovery
Mehedi Bakht, John Carlson, Alexander Loeb, and Robin Kravets (UIUC)
Full paper
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 Session 6: Location
Session chair: Gaetano Borriello
SpinLoc: Spin Once to Know Your Location
Souvik Sen and Romit Roy Choudhury (Duke University) and Srihari Nelakuditi (University of South Carolina)
Full paper
Towards Fine-Grained Radio-Based Indoor Location
Jie Xiong and Kyle Jamieson (University College London)
Full paper
Polaris: Getting Accurate Indoor Orientations for Mobile Devices Using Ubiquitous Visual Patterns on Ceilings
Zheng Sun and Aveek Purohit (CMU), Shijia Pan (University of Science and Technology of China), Frank Mokaya (CMU), Raja Bose (Nokia Research Center), and Pei Zhang (CMU)
Full paper
15:00 – 15:30 Closing Break