PROFILE:
Oliver Brdiczka
Oliver Brdiczka focuses on constructing models for human activity from various sensors -- ranging from PC desktop events to physical activity sensors -- by employing machine learning methods. The goal? To enable context-aware applications and services that understand human activity and anticipate human needs by leveraging derived intent and goals. As part of a Xerox-funded project incubated at PARC (www.meshstro.com) to increase the productivity of today's information workers, Oliver is developing methods for automatically constructing semantic models from people's work patterns using content, temporal patterns, and social relationships.
Oliver's background is in computer vision, situation modeling, and machine learning. Before joining PARC, he managed a research area on Ambient Collaborative Learning at Telecooperation Group at TU Darmstadt, Germany and, before that, he held a lecturer position at Universite Pierre Mendes France at Grenoble. Oliver's research has contributed to several European research projects including IST CAVIAR (Context Aware Vision using Image-based Active Recognition) and IP CHIL (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop), as well as the DARPA CALO project (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes).
Oliver received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.S. in Imagery, Vision, and Robotics from INP Grenoble; engineer's diploma from ENSIMAG, France; and Master's Degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker) from Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. Oliver has authored or co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of activity recognition, context modeling, machine learning, human-computer interaction, and e-learning, and also serves on numerous program committees for international conferences. He received the best Ph.D. thesis award from INP Grenoble (2007) as well as best paper awards from the IFIP conference on Artificial Intelligence, Applications, & Innovations (2006) and the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (2008).
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2010
Integral framework for acquiring and evolving situations in smart environments
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
April 2010
Temporal task footprinting: identifying routine tasks by their temporal patterns
IUI 2010
7 February 2010
2009
Detecting human behavior models from multimodal observation in a smart home
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
October 2009
User initiated learning for adaptive interfaces
IJCAI Workshop on Intelligence and Interaction 2009
13 July 2009
Guest editorial for special issue on Multimedia Technology for E-learning
Interactive Technology and Smart Education
June 2009
CoScribe: integrating paper with digital documents for collaborative learning
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
July 2009
Collaborative paper-based annotation of lecture slides
Educational Technology & Society Journal
April 2009
Using temporal patterns (T-Patterns) to derive stress factors of routine tasks
Extended Abstracts of CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Predicting shoppers' interest from social interactions using sociometric sensors
Extended Abstracts of CHI 2009
4 April 2009
Computers in the Human Interaction Loop (book), edited by Alex Waibel, Rainer Stiefelhagen
2009
Learning situation models in a smart home
IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, Cybernetics; special issue on Human-Centered Computing
February 2009
2008
Cross-media linking and tagging support for learning groups
2008 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia
December 2008
Paper-centric interaction concepts for collaborative learning
Mensch & Computer (MuC) Conference
7 September 2008
CoScribe: using paper for collaborative annotations in lectures
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
July 2008
Paper-centric structuring in learning processes
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
1 July 2008
related focus areas
- Context-Aware Computing & Mobile Interaction
- Information & Communication Technologies
- Information Visualization & Sensemaking
events
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The case for activity models
20 June 2010 | HI
Learning situation models in smart spaces
12 February 2010 | Hong Kong
Temporal task footprinting: identifying routine tasks by their temporal patterns
7 February 2010 - 10 February 2010 | Hong Kong
