Project's end (and continuation)

After 3 years of successful work, the HYDROSYS project has ended! Nonetheless, we will keep you up to date, in particular refreshing our publication list at our main website, and announcing key results... here at the blog. To all those that have read the blog regularly - thanks a lot!

Join us at the ACM CHI conference!

For everyone attending the CHI conference in Vancouver (May 7-12) - feel free to join us in our booth in the exhibition hall, where will show the latest (and coolest) mobile interaction stuff for environmental monitoring. Expect cool things concerning navigation of complex data, mobile sensors, and more....

WiFi bridge

With growing external interest on our used WiFi bridge infrastructure, more detailed information can now be found at the following website. Click here. (thanks Nick!)

Davos celebration big success

The Davos celebration and HYDROSYS event has been a big success! Great weather, lots of visitors (around 1500), the day has been splendid...

HYDROSYS at CHI2011

The HYDROSYS consortium is proud to announce that it is hosting a booth at the premier international conference of human-computer interaction, ACM CHI2011, in May this year. If you are coming to Vancouver to attend the conference, make sure to visit our booth number 6! We will be showing exciting demos of our mobile systems, and explaining the general working of the whole system architecture. Expect some cool novelties to be shown on interactive technology, augmented reality, and mobile systems!
More information can be found here. Hope to see you there!

Join us at the SLF celebration!

HYDROSYS is celebrating! As part of the anniversary of one of our partners, SLF, we are part of a big event hosted in Davos at Sunday March 20. If you are around, be sure to check it out - we are showing many demos and systems.... Location: Davos, Bundawiese, 10 - 16h.

ENVIP: cross project work

HYDROSYS is now involved inside the ENVIP network of projects, related to Environmental Information Infrastructures and Platforms

Check out the website here for more info!

W2GIS article accepted!

Yet another publication is accepted!
Nurminen, A., Kruijff, E., Veas, E. HYDROSYS - A mixed reality platform for on-site visualization of environmental data. To appear in Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011.
Check out the conference at: http://www.w2gis.org/

Paper accepted at ACM MUM2010

After some hectic weeks, here a new post: we are proud to announce that our paper on handheld platforms got selected for ACM MUM2010. Check out the presentation if you attend!

More info at www.mum2010.org

Andermatt

While preparing for the upcoming review, a quick update on the deployments - on the picture you can see the wall inclination sensor sockets in Andermatt getting installed and connected to the handheld. With the system we can provide extremely accurate inclination measurements of walls, to check for structural changes over time.

Wifi hotspot provided in La Fouly

The La Fouly catchment lies on the border between Switzerland and Italy and has no mobile phone network coverage from either country. To enable the Hydrosys network to work, it was necessary to provide internet access in the valley.

This week, we have proven a wireless hotspot which is capable of accessing the mobile phone network on the mountain top and providing a wireless internet hotspot covering the entire 3km length of the valley. This hotspot can be set up in a matter of minutes from reaching the peak and will eventually be solar powered and completely autonomous.

Publication accepted!

Our publication on perceptual issues in augmented reality got accepted for IEEE ISMAR this year! We are very glad about it, considering the high competitiveness and quality of the conference: this year, the conference had an acceptance rate of 22.4%. The paper deals with a classification of perceptual issues that are prevalent in augmented reality, and possible ways of solving the issues.

Final publication will be made available soon:
Kruijff, E., Swan II, E., Feiner, S. Perceptual Issues in Augmented Reality Revisited. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2010.

Field experiments in Andermatt and La Fouly (Switzerland)

We are very excited to announce that new deployments will be taken next week in Andermatt (on wall inclination sensing and effects of permafrost on building structures) and La Fouly (on flooding related issues). Furthermore, the blimp will be taken for a second test and data recording session. More information on results will follow soon!

(on the picture: a Sensorscope station in La Fouly).

Blimp test

Going through the archives, we noticed this nice video - it shows the first operation of the blimp with full equipment (normal and thermal cams) during an operation in Davos, March 2010.

Isophotes to enhance perception

Here you can see some new developments we are working on: using isophotes to enhance perception of the display content. Enjoy.

Presenting at SMARTGRAPHICS

Erick Mendez will present the latest results on the saliency techniques (visual techniques to draw the attention of a user) at the ACM/EG SMARTGRAPHICS conference this week. Check it out if you are around, or check the publication here.

Expert interviews

As part of the user-centered design, we will be gathering end-user feedback from experts. If you believe you have a good input that may help us further, please contact the partners at EFLUM.

Graz quarterly meeting

Well, it's time for a quarterly meeting again! Graz will be hosting the two-day meeting at June 23 and 24. Focus: planning for the final year, updating and finalizing the design and integration of the system, and giving out our latest research prototypes for on-site usage. Exciting....

Range of publications submitted

The HYDROSYS consortium has just submitted several publications on the latest research outcomes of the project to a major conference. We can't tell you more, but hey, let's keep our fingers crossed!

Presenting at GI

Alessandro Mulloni will present our great paper on multi-camera navigation today at GI2010. Go check it out if you are attending the conference!