Thomas Pederson Associate Professor
Pervasive Interaction Technology Lab & Interaction Design Research Group
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark		 tped /at/ itu.dk
http://www.itu.dk/people/tped/
phone: +45 7218 5335
fax: +45 7218 5001
office: 3D02
Research agenda

To create systems that facilitate individual and collaborative everyday physical-virtual activities (Pederson, 2006). This implies to explore the technological possibilities of decreasing the gap between the physical (real) and the virtual (computational) world (Pederson, 2003) using methods and technologies from within the area of Ubiquitous Computing. It also means to explore the possibilities for mobile computer support for non-office real-world activities.

Projects

2011-: iCareNet
- Context-Aware systems for healthcare, wellness, and assisted living

2009: EASE
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering

2006-2008: easyADL
- Independent life despite dementia

2006-2008:
- Cultural Heritage fruition & e-learning applications of new Advanced (multimodal) Technologies

2004-2005:
- Blending the physical and the virtual in Human-Computer Interaction

2000-2003: Magic Touch - keeping track of things in the office. 6 mins narrated demo clip (50 MB, WMV format)
Degrees PhD in Computing Science 2003; M.Sc. in Computing Science 1997. Both degrees from Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå University, Sweden.

Full C.V. available on request.
     

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ACM Press

 Selected publications
Mardanbegi, D., Witzner Hansen, D., & Pederson, T. (2012). Eye-based head gestures. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 139- 146. DOI=10.1145/2168556.2168578 (***Best paper award***) [PDF]  
Bardram, J. E., Bjørn, P., Glenstrup, A. J. & Pederson, T. (2011). The Global Interaction Research Initiative at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Hangzhou, China, ACM Press, pp. 489-496. [PDF]  
Pederson, T., Janlert, L.-E. & Surie, D. (2010). Towards a model for egocentric interaction with physical and virtual objects. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries. ACM Press, pp. 755-758. [PDF]  
Costabile, M. F., De Angeli, A., Lanzilotti, R., Ardito, C., Buono, P., Pederson, T. (2008). Explore! Possibilities and Challenges of Mobile Learning. In Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM Press, pp. 145-154. [PDF]  
Ardito, C., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R., Pederson, T. (2007). Making Dead History Come Alive Through Mobile Game-Play. In Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI 2007 Conference, ACM Press, pp. 2249-2254. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2004). Magic Touch. In Video Proceedings of UBICOMP2004, Nottingham, UK, ACM Press. 6 mins narrated video
(50 MB, WMV format)
Proceedings paper (PDF)		  
Battarbee, K., Baerten, N., Hinfelaar, M., Irvine, P., Loeber, S., Munro, A., & Pederson, T. (2002). Pools and Satellites -- Intimacy in the City. In Proceedings of ACM DIS2002 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM Press, pp. 237-245.
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Pederson, T. (2000). Human Hands as a Link between Physical and Virtual. In Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing Augmented Reality Environments, ACM Press, 153-154.
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Elsevier    
Surie, D., Janlert, L-E., Pederson, T., Roy, D. (2012). Egocentric interaction as a tool for designing ambient ecologies -- The case of the easy ADL ecology. Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Special Issue on Ambient Ecologies, Elsevier, Vol. 8, Issue 4, pp. 597-613, (2012).
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IEEE Press    
Surie, D., Pederson, T., Janlert, L-E. (2012). A Smart Home Experience using Egocentric Interaction Design Principles. IEEE 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, Paphos, Cyprus, pp. 656-665. [PDF]  
Pederson, T., Janlert, L.-E., Surie, D. (2011). A Situative Space Model for Mobile Mixed-Reality Computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 73-83, Oct. 2011. [PDF]  
Surie, D., Jaeckel, F., Janlert, L. & Pederson, T. (2010). Situative Space Tracking within Smart Environments. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments. IEEE Press, pp. 152-157. [PDF]  
Ardito, C., Buono, P., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R., Pederson, T., Piccinno, A. (2008). Experiencing the Past through the Senses: An M-Learning Game at Archaeological Parks. IEEE Multimedia, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 76-81, Oct.-Dec. 2008. [PDF]  
Surie, D., Laguionie, O., Pederson, T. (2008). Wireless Sensor Networking of Everyday Objects in a Smart Home Environment. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2008), IEEE Press, pp. 189-194. [PDF]  
Ardito, C., Buono, P., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R., Pederson, T. (2007). Mobile games to foster the learning of history at archaeological sites. In Proceedings of IEEE VL/HCC 2007 Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, IEEE Press, pp. 81-84. [PDF]  
     
IOS Press    
Surie, D., Pederson, T. & Janlert, L. (2010). The easy ADL home: A physical-virtual approach to domestic living. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Volume 2 Issue 3, August 2010, IOS Press, pp. 287-310. [PDF]  
     
Springer    

Pederson, T., Ardito, C., Bottoni, P., Costabile, M. F. (2008). A General-Purpose Context Modeling Architecture for Adaptive Mobile Services. In Proceedings of the ER Workshops 2008, Section M2AS: First International Workshop on Modeling Mobile Applications and Services: Mobile Systems and Architecture. Springer LNCS 5232, pp. 208-217.

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Pederson, T., Surie, D. (2007). Towards an Activity-Aware Wearable Computing Platform Based on an Egocentric Interaction Model. In Proceedings of IFIP UCS 2007 Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Springer LNCS 4836, pp. 211–227. [PDF]  
Surie, D., Lagriffoul, F., Pederson, T., Sjölie, D. (2007). Activity Recognition based on Intra and Extra Manipulation of Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of IFIP UCS 2007 Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Systems, Springer LNCS 4836, pp. 196-210. [PDF]  
Surie, D., Pederson, T. (2007). An Activity-Centered Wearable Computing Infrastructure for Intelligent Environment Applications. In Proceedings of IFIP EUC 2007 Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer LNCS 4808, pp. 456-465. [PDF]  
Ardito, C., Buono, P., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R., Pederson, T. (2007). Re-experiencing History in Archaeological Parks by Playing a Mobile Augmented Reality Game. In Proceedings of the OTM MONET’07 Workshop, Springer LNCS 4805, pp. 357-366. [PDF]  
Surie, D., Pederson, T., Lagriffoul, F., Janlert, L.-E., & Sjölie, D. (2007). Activity Recognition using an Egocentric Perspective of Everyday Objects. In Proceedings of IFIP UIC 2007 Conference on Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing, Springer LNCS 4611, pp. 246-257. *** Best Paper Award *** [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2001). Magic Touch: A Simple Object Location Tracking System Enabling the Development of Physical-Virtual Artefacts in Office Environments. Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5:54-57. Springer Verlag, February 2001. [PDF]  
     
Other    
Pederson, T., Witzner Hansen, D., Mardanbeigi, D. (2011). Investigations of the Role of Gaze in Mixed-Reality Personal Computing. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human Machine Interaction held at IUI'2011, Stanford, February 13. http://www.ci.seikei.ac.jp/nakano/GAZEWS_IUI2011/ [PDF] [poster]  
Pederson, T., Shaer, O. & Wakkary, R. (2010). Welcome to the TEI'10 Proceedings, Program Chairs' Intro. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Coelho, M., Zigelbaum, J., Ishii, H., Jacob, R. J. K., Maes, P., Pederson, T., Shaer, O. & Wakkary, R. (eds.). Cambridge, Massachusetts, ACM Press, p. iv. 1 p. [PDF]  
Kindberg, T., Pederson, T. & Sukthankar, R. (2010). Guest Editors' Introduction: Labeling the World. IEEE Pervasive Computing. Vol 9, Issue 2, pp. 8-10. IEEE Press. [PDF]  
Pederson, T., Piccinno, A., Surie, D., Ardito, C., Caporusso, N., Janlert, L.-E. (2008). Framing the Next-Generation ‘Desktop’ using Proximity and Human Perception. Unpublished manuscript presented at the ACM CHI 2008 Conference Workshop on User Interface Description Languages for Next-Generation User Interfaces. 4 pages. [PDF]  

Pederson T. (2007). Can Tangible User Interface Concepts be used for Describing Everyday Object Manipulation? In Online Proceedings of the ACM CHI 2007 Workshop on Tangible User Interfaces in Context and Theory. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/conference/tangibleinterfaces/

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Pederson T., Pinto H., Schmitz M., Stahl C., and Terrenghi L. (Eds.), SFB 378 – Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes, Memo Nr. 86: Modelling and Designing User Assistance in Intelligent Environments (MODIE 2006) Workshop in Conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (ACM MobileHCI 2006), ISSN 0944-7822, Saarland University, 2006. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2006). Egocentric Interaction. Workshop on What is the Next Generation of Human-Computer Interaction? CHI2006, April 22-23, Montréal, Canada. In Technical Report 2006-3, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Mass. pp77-80.
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/tr/techreps/TR-2006-3		 [PDF]  
Pederson T., Lanzilotti R., Montinaro F., and Costabile M .F., Thinking out of the box – user experience as viewed from an egocentric interaction perspective. In Online Proceedings of the ACM NordiCHI 2006 / COST Action 294: MAUSE Workshop on User Experience – Towards a unified view, pp. 45–50.
http://cost294.org/upload/408.pdf
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Ardito C., Pederson T., and Costabile M. F. (2006). CHAT – Towards a general-purpose infrastructure for multimodal situation-adaptive user assistance. In Proceedings of ACM MobileHCI Workshop on Modelling and Designing User Assistance in Intelligent Environments (MODIE 2006). Published as SFB 378 – Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes, Memo Nr. 86: Pederson T., Pinto H., Schmitz M., Stahl C., Terrenghi L. (Eds.): MODIE 2006, ISSN 0944-7822, Saarland University, pp. 27–31. [PDF]  
Ardito, C., Pederson, T., Costabile, M. F., Lanzilotti, R. (2006). Providing multimodal context-sensitive services to mobile users. In the Online Proceedings of the Italian National Event on Virtual Mobile Guides 2006, Turin, Italy, October 18 2006.
http://mobileguide06.di.unito.it/pdf/Ardito&al.pdf.		 [PDF]  
Backman, A., Bodin, K., Bucht, G., Janlert, L.-E., Maxhall, M., Pederson, T., Sjölie, D., Sondell, B., & Surie, D. (2006). easyADL – Wearable Support System for Independent Life despite Dementia. Workshop on Designing Technology for People with Cognitive Impairments, CHI2006, April 22-23, Montréal, Canada. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2005). Egocentric Interaction — A Design and Modelling Framework for Situative Physical-Virtual Applications. Workshop on User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing, PERVASIVE2005, May 11, Munich, Germany. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2004). Using Causality to Close the Physical-Virtual Gap. Workshop on Invisible & Transparent Interfaces, AVI2004, May 25, Gallipoli, Italy. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2004). Designing for Physical-Virtual Activities. Workshop on Computer Support for Human Tasks and Activities, PERVASIVE2004, April 20, Vienna, Austria. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2003). Towards a Unified Model of Simple Physical and Virtual Environments. In Proceedings of HCI International 2003, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1096-1100.
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Pederson, T. (2001). Physical-Virtual Knowledge Work Environments — First Steps. In Proceedings of HCI International 2001, Lawrence Erlbaum, 693-697. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2001). Object Location Modeling in Office Environments — First Steps. Workshop on Location Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing, UBICOMP 2001, September 30, Atlanta, USA. [PDF]  
Broberg, A., & Pederson, T. (2001). Some Thoughts on Using Context Awareness for Enhancing Knowledge Work Environments. Workshop on User Modeling for Context-Aware Applications, UM2001, July 13, Sonthofen, Germany.
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Pederson, T. (2000). Magic Touch: A Simple Object Location Tracking System Enabling the Development of Physical-Virtual Artefacts in Office Environments. Workshop on Situated Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing, CHI2000, April 3, The Hague, The Netherlands. [PDF]  
Milrad, M., Broberg, A., & Pederson, T. (1999). Challenges for Design: Seeing Learners as Knowledge Workers Acting in Physical-Virtual Environments. Journal of Courseware Engineering, 2:22-33. [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (1999). Physical-Virtual instead of Physical or Virtual — Designing Artefacts for Future Knowledge Work Environments. In Proceedings of HCI International’99, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1070-1074. [PDF]  
     
Technical reports    

Pederson, T. Surie, D. (2008). A Situative Space Model for Multimodal Interaction. Presented at NordiCHI2008 workshop on Future Mobile Experiences. Umeå University technical report UMINF 08.11, 5 pages.
http://www.cs.umu.se/research/uminf/index.cgi?year=2008&number=11

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Surie, D., Pederson, T., Lagriffoul, F., Janlert, L. –E., Sjölie, D. (2007). Activity Recognition using an Egocentric Perspective of Everyday Objects. Umeå University technical report UMINF-107.01, 2007, 15 pages.
http://www.cs.umu.se/research/reports/show.cgi?year=2007&nr=001		 [PDF]  
Pederson, T. (2003). From Conceptual Links to Causal Relations — Physical-Virtual Artefacts in Mixed-Reality Space. PhD thesis, Dept. of Computing Science, Umeå university, report UMINF-03.14, ISSN 0348-0542, ISBN 91-7305-556-5. Permanent URL:
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137
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Pederson, T. (1999). Integrating Physical and Virtual Knowledge Work Environments using Physical-Virtual Artefacts — A Proposal. Umeå University report UMINF 99.15.
http://www.cs.umu.se/research/reports/show.cgi?year=1999&nr=015
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Pederson, T. (1997). A Cup of Tea & a Piece of Cake — Integration of Virtual Information Workspaces Inspired by the Way We May Think. MSc thesis, Ericsson Media Lab. Umeå University report UMNAD 182.97. [PDF] [movie clip 57MB]