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Jakob E. Bardram
Professor

IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
DK-2300 Copenhagen S.

Phone: +45 7218 5311
bardram 'at' itu 'dot' dk

I am a Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. My research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, Object Oriented Software Architecture, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW); and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Broadly, I work at the intersection of HCI and systems research. My main application areas of this research is healthcare, especially Pervasive Healthcare, Biology, and Global Software Development.

I run the pIT Lab where you can find descriptions of the Research and Research Projects that we are engaged in. If you're a student in the Copenhagen metropolitan area and is interested in doing a MSc project, see my description of student projects for more information.

Currently, I'm on leave from ITU while working as an interim CEO (iCEO) for my company Cetrea A/S in Aarhus.

WEBLOG

• The Global Software Development Conference that we organized as part of the NeXGSD project was a huge success! Almost 150 participants signed up for the conference and we have a day filled with talk from academia and industry. The conference and our research was later covered in an article in Computer World' (in Danish).
• Dagens Medicin har en historie om vores MONARCA projekt, der fortæller om hvordan "Mobiltelefon skal forbedre behandling af bipolar lidelse". [in Danish]
• The Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Aarhus has made a story on the deployment of the eLabBench at the Micro-Biology lab.
  • The story is also in videnskab.dk, in Danish however.
• August - Vores projekt om "Activity-Based Computing" (ABC) er omtalt både i videnskab.dk, version2.dk, og DR, P4 Østjylland.
• August - Thomas Berglund & Michael Thomasen succesfully defended their master thesis on Non-anonymous user interaction on tabletop displays.
• August - I am participating in the Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages Workshop at AAAI 2011. The focus is on starting a standardization on activity-based computing.
• July - the Danish IT online magazine Version2 has an article on the eLabBench, which is made as part of the Mini-Grid project.
• May - the first patients are now using the MONARCA system that we have spend a year designing and implementing -- exciting to see how this pans out!
• May - Juan and Aurélien presented our paper GridOrbit: An infrastructure awareness system for increasing contribution in volunteer computing at the CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver. The article received an honorable mention award (top 5%).
• January - our paper on "Phase Recognition during Surgical Procedures using Embedded and Body-worn Sensors" was accepted for publication at the PerCom 2011 conference in Seattle, USA. This is research done in collaboration between the PIT lab and the Decision Optimization Lab at the IT University of Copenhagen based on a master's thesis project.
• January - Our paper on "GridOrbit – An Infrastructure Awareness System for Increasing Contribution in Volunteer Computing" has been accepted for publication at the ACM CHI 2011 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is research done as part of the Mini-Grid Project.

2010

• November - the Danish Strategic Research Council has granted us the project on Global Software Development. Over a 5 year period, we (Ali Babar, Pernille Bjørn, and me) together with Anne-Marie Søderberg at CBS are going to look into next generation technologies for global software development.
• November - the CSCW 2011 program committee meeting is over and our paper on Activity Analysis using Activity Theory was accepted.
• October - we have just learned that our Mari-Curie Training Network iCareNet has been granted. This is great news, since this is an excellent context for new PhD students to work with ubiquitous computing, context-awareness, and healthcare.
• September - the Ubicomp 2010 conference was well received and we did have a great week with a lot of good research and especially demos.
• September - I gave a presentation of our research and the "Global Interaction Research Initiative" (www.global-interaction.org) - GIRI - for the Danish Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation Ms. Charlotte Sahl-Madsen. I was talking about global interaction, the Mini-Grid project, and our research on IPv6, including the MANA project by Philippe Bonnet.
• August - the Pervasive Computing course on ITU is started. The first of its kind (here), and it is going to be great.
• April - Dagens Medicin har en artikel om Lægen følger med patienten helt hjem, som berører telemedicinsk behandling, herunder vores MONARCA projekt om monitorering af patienter med bipolær lidelser.
• April - Stuck in Atlanta... Back again ;-)
• April - presented my ToCHI paper on Activity-Based Computing at the ACM CHI 2010 conference.
  • The slide deck is availble from Slideshare.net.
• Februar - MONARCA projektet er omtalt i Ingeniøren.
• February - presented the paper on Why the Plan Doesn't Hold - a Study of Situated Planning, Articulation and Coordination Work in a Surgical Ward at the ACM CSCW 2010 Conference in Savannah, GA.
• February - attending the CSCW 2010 Workshop on RESEARCH IN HEALTHCARE: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE where I presented the position paper on Peri-operative Coordination and Communication Systems: A Case of CSCW in Medical Informatics.
• February - the CSCW 2011 web site is online - and you can read the Call for Participation for the Papers and Notes trac. Please distribute widely ...
• February - I have described the Contingency Management Framework (CMF) in an ITU Technical Report (TR-2009-121), which has uploaded at the PIT Lab Software Resources page.
• Januar - holder et oplæg omkring visioner for fremtidens sundheds-IT i Region H. Mit tale papir er tilgængelig her.
• January - the website for the Global Interaction Research Initiative is online.

2009

• September - The website for Ubicomp 2010 is available and the Call for Participation is posted. Please join us in Copenhagen next year!
• September - Jeg præsenterede mit arbejde om Pervasive Healthcare for en svensk deletation, der besøgte Danmark i regi af sundhedsITnet netværket.
• August - Two paper on the ABC project was presented at the INTERACT 2009 conference:
  • CLINICAL SURFACES -- Activity-Based Computing for Distributed Multi-Display Environments in Hospitals. Jakob E. Bardram, Jonathan Bunde-Pedersen, Afsaneh Doryab and Steffen S{\o}rensen. In Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2009, pages 704-717, 2009.
  • A Novel Approach for Creating Activity-Aware Applications in a Hospital Environment. Jakob E. Bardram. In Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2009, pages 731-744, 2009.
  • This last paper was awarded the The Brian Shackel Award for the best research contribution to the INTERACT conference this year.
• July 2009 - back from the ACM CSCW 2010 program committee meeting in Amsterdam.
• June 2009 - I've been asked to co-chair the the ACM CSCW 2011 papers & notes program committee. This is exciting, and I'm looking forward to that. CSCW 2011 is going to take place in China, which suits well with the GIRI initiative.
• June 2009 - The work on version 3 of the ABC Framework and Activity-Based Computing is published in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM ToCHI).
  • Bardram, J. E. 2009. Activity-based computing for medical work in hospitals. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 16, 2 (Jun. 2009), 1-36. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1534903.1534907 - PDF (4.21 MB)
• March 2009 - The Danish edition of Computer World has published an article about the Global Interaction Research Initiative.
• January 2009 - Back to work after the Xmas holidays, I have stated in a new position as a research director here at ITU. I will lead the Global Interaction Research Initiative - more on that will follow shortly.

2008

• November 2008 - I'm co-organizing the Doctoral Colloquium at the 2009 PERVASIVE Conference. If you're a PhD student within Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - hurry to submit a proposal up - we expect participation will be rather competitive.
• November 2008 - Participating in the the CSCW 2008 Conference in San Diego, CA. Have been discussing globally distributed team work in the workshop on Supporting Distributed Team Work. Is also part of the panel on Ubicomp's Role in CSCW. The slides from the presentation is available at SlideShare.
• September 2008 - Participating in the UbiComp 2008 conference in Seoul, Korea. Is presenting the paper "A Context-aware Patient Safety System for the Operating Room", which is based on the work on patient safety together with Cetrea and which is being developed as a product called Cetrea Safety.
• September 2008 - Tidsskriftet Dagens Medicins initiativpris Den Gyldne Skalpel blev 4. september overrakt af sundhedsminister Jakob Axel Nielsen til Det Interaktive Hospital i Horsens. Teknologien bag er udviklet som led i min forskning i Awareness teknologier da jeg kørte Center for Pervasive Healthcare på Aarhus Universtet. I dag udvikles og markedesføres teknologien af firmaet Cetrea under navnet Cetrea Surgical. En beskrivelse af systemet blev også bragt i Dagen Medicin.
• August 2008 - Jeg blev blev ringet op af en journalist fra Dagbladet Ingeniøren, som spugte hvilken ny teknologi indenfor mit forskningsfelt der snart ville komme ud i mere almindelig brug. Jeg foreslog "Multi-touch teknologi". Det kom der et par sjove artikel ud af - Det digitale kakkelbord vil ændre vores pc-liv og Virksomheder i kapløb om berøringsfølsomme skærme.
• August 2008 - The course schedule for BDSA 2008 is up. Making ready for the semester start.
• June 2008 - I was invited to give the opening keynote at the Context Awareness and Trust (CAT) 2008 workshop, taking place as part of the IFIPTM 2008 - Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, June 18-20, 2008, Trondheim, Norway. In this talk I was presenting my work on Security, Usability, and User Authentication.
• June 2008 - Gav en præsentation for Dansk Industri's ITEK netværk for sundheds-IT. Diskuterede mulighederne for etablering af Klinisk IT Forskning i et samarbejde mellem dansk sundheds-industri, sundhedsvæsnet, samt IT forskningen bl.a. på ITU.
• April 2008 - The Danish version of Computer World had a story on the C3A Medical system at Horsens Sygehus.
• April 2008 - I have the last couple of months been leading the UNIK application process at ITU. We have just handed it in.
• Jan. 2008 - I was invited to the Pervasive Health Conference to give a keynote talk. The slide are available from my Pervasive Healthcare page and at SlideShare.
• Jan. 2008 - The National Danish Broadcasting News (DR Nyhederne) has been reporting from our research on Context-aware Patient Safety in the Operating Room. The report was send Thursday January 24 at 18:30.

2007

• Nov. 2007 - Thomas Hildebrandt, Carsten Schürmann, me and people from DIKU have just received a grant from NABIIT for the TrustCare project. This project is going to create trustworthy systems for healthcare with a special focus on continuous care -- may indeed be relevant for Assisted Living. The project is part of a large grant to ITU related to healthcare IT research -- see the ITU Press Announcement.
• Nov. 2007 - Attending the Dagstuhl seminar on Ambient Assisted Living - quite interesting!
• Sep. 2007 - I gave a talk on The Art of Doing a PhD at the Doctoral Colloquium at UbiComp Conference this year.
• July 2007 - I'm giving a talk on the New Paradigms for Using Computers (NPUC) conference at the IBM Research center at Almaden. This year NPUC is about "The Healthcare Interface" and I'll be talking about my work on pervasive computing in hospitals.
• June 2007 - an article about the use of pervasive computing technology in hospitals were printed by the Danish Medical Association -- Ugeskrift for læger 2007;169(26):2502.
• 2/4-07 - 1-2 open PhD positions within the Collaborative Mini-Grid project are available -- see the job announcement.
• 12/2-07 - Indslag i DR Harddisken om Fremtidens operationsstue. In Danish.
• 7/2-07 - I'm co-organizing the Doctoral Colloquium at UbiComp Conference this year. If you're a PhD student within Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - hurry to sign up!
• 4/2-07 - An overview of the ABC Project is going to be published in the IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine - a pre-print is available here.
• 8/1-07 - 4 PhD positions available within the ABC and CMG projects - more information is here.

2006

• 5/12-06 - I have received funding from the NABIIT program to the Collaborative Mini-Grid Project. This project is done together with CLC Bio and the iNano Center at the University of Aarhus.
• 20/11-06 - The Pervasive Computing in Healthcare book has been published.