Mobisys is a conference targetted towards mobile computing applications and systems in the pervasive and mobile environment. It's sponsored by ACM Sigmobile. The schedule for the conference is here. Rick Rashid from Microsoft Research is giving a keynote on "Bridging the Quality of Life Gap through Ubiquitous Connectivity and Services". What he says in this keynote is true, there is this huge gap in the quality of life due to the access to information and services. Lots of people in the world still do not have decent Internet access. The Internet is still not as ubiquitous as we think that it is.
"A Systems Architecture for Ubiquitous Video" seems to be an interesting topic. So also is "Cracking the Bluetooth PIN", that's the PIN number that Bluetooth devices have for security. So if you want to connect to a Bluetooth device, you need to enter the PIN number if that Bluetooth device has security enabled. There's also a list of posters here. Some interesting poster topics are "The inHand System for Ubiquitous Personalized Interactive Content", "Robot Couriers: Implementing Mobility in a Mobile Wireless Testbed" (David Johnson is the one who created DSR routing). The one I am really interested in related to my research is "Profile Blog: Blog-based Life Log Viewer Capable of Profile Associations" by Masaru Honjo, Daisuke Morikawa, Akira Yamaguchi, and Masayoshi Ohashi, KDDI Corporation, Japan.
Apparently, there is a U of T submission for the poster which is "L-ToPSS: Constraint Processing System for Supporting Efficient Location-based Services" by Zhengdao Xu and Hans-Arno Jacobsen. I had a poster last year at Mobisys 2004 of which I went to in Boston.
There's a demo at the poster and demo session tonight called "SoulPad: Make Any PC Your PC", this seems related to ISR (Internet Suspend/Resume) kind of. Another interesting demo is "A Relative Positioning System for Co-located Mobile Devices", of how you can use peer devices near you to determine where you are located, instead of having to rely on centralized location systems like GPS. "A System to Investigate the Use of Digital Image Capture and Object Recognition in Mobile Tour Guides" also seems very interesting and relevant for people who go to a new place and need to have a tour. A really cool demo that I would love to see and has many uses is "MStream: Position-aware Mobile Music Streaming", which it looks like that depending on where you are, you will get music streamed to you that is tailored to your location. For example, if you are near the Mamma Mia performance, then you'll get Mamma Mia music streamed to you. Location-aware systems are hot in research right now, because they have direct applicability to consumers. And this will increase revenues for the carriers because then they'll get money for using this service provided by the carrier through the cell phone.
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