Now your mobile phone can act as your personal guide in the airport - se our demonstration the 11th November 16.00-18.30 hours at the IT-University, Rued Langgaardsvej 7, 2300 København S, Auditorium 4.

The experiences from the SPOPOS-project show, that the newest technology on the area of indoor positioning offers the customers security and a comprehensive view when moving about in the airport. On your mobile phone you can get information concerning where you are and how far away from your gate you are located. Accordingly your stay in the airport becomes more relaxed, since you know you will always have updates about changes and about how to navigate to the gate from your location.

Programme & entry

Please notice that the event is in danish as well as the following programme

SPOPOS: Sporingsteknologiske person og opertørservices- et forskningsprojekt om den intelligente lufthavn

16:00 Velkomst v. Christian Poulsen, IT-Direktør, Københavns Lufthavne

16:05 Præsentation af SPOPOS projektet v. John Paulin Hansen, forsker, ITU

16:20 Teknisk setup af sporingsplatformen i CPH  v. Alexandre Alapetite, forsker, DTU

16:30 RFID sporing v. Lyngsoe Systems A/S

16:40 Bluetooth sporing v. BLIP Systems A/S

16:50 Kaffepause og udstilling

17:10 Forretningsmuligheder med indendørs sporingsteknologi, Henrik Bjørner Søe, centerdirektør, Fisketorvet

17:30 Flyselskabers fordele ved et gatecaller-koncept, Hans-Henrik Spangenberg, direktør, SAS ground services.

17.45 Invitation til netværk om indendørs positionering

17:50 Indvielse af Gatecaller: En prototype på fremtidens lokalitetsbestemte servicesystemer

18:00 Sandwich, mulighed for at netværke og hands-on på indendørs sporing i IT Universitetes bygning

18.30 Tak for i dag

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Questions

If you have any quistions please contact Camilla Simonsen: camilla.simonsen@alexandra.dk

The theme of the INTERACT 2009 conference was Research and Practice, addresses the issue of continuity between theory and practice in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. The main focus was on research that is reflected in real-world applications.

Download Lone Malmborgs presentation here (.pdf)

Read the paper behind the presentation here

Learn more about Interact 2009 here

The interestgroup will gather companies and researchers who whish to be a step ahead concerning innovation on the area of positioning and tracking, and will offer the possibility of participating in relevant theme- and networkingevents etc.

Membership in the interestgroup is free of charge, but it is necessary to join the interestgroup to be invited to it's events - you can join it by senden an e-mail to Camilla Simonsen: camilla.simonsen@alexandra.dk

InfinIT: http://www.infinit.dk/dk/infinit_in_english/

The Alexandra Institute, InfinIT, and Crossroads Copenhagen invited to MobileMonday Copenhagen on June the 8th at The IT-University in Copenhagen, where SPOPOS was presented

Taking the questions of how it can be possible to:

• deliver relevant positionbased information and services
• optimize the arrangement of shopping areas
• avoid bottlenecks and queues

as his point of departure Associate Professor John Paulin presented SPOPOS and the various services that are already a part of SPOPOS as well as he pointed out the services that might be coming in the near future.

Succeding John Paulin Head of Research and Innovation at The Alexandra Institute Andy Drysdale reported on the possibilities and recent initiatives on the areau of pervasive positioning in Denmark and invited to cooperation in new development projects.

Following him Manager Fabio Cujino from Safari Development presented the Company Talking Letters' postcard with a built in RFID for reading on the mobile phone.

Finaly Network Manager Rikke Koch from the network InfinIT collected participators for a special interest group on the area of positioning and tracking. Contact: Rikke Koch, rikke.koch@alexandra.dk

Media on the Move addresses people working with the development of mobile services and experiences, and also simply people who are using mobile applicationshttp://www.mediaonmove.com/danmark/da-dk/menu/konference/forside-media-on-move.htm.

On the conference John Paulin presented the GateCaller - view slides here (.ppt); while Peter Knudsen presented the BlipAnalyzer, view slides here (.pdf)

Read more about the survey:
Attitudes to the Gatecaller

Survey carried out in two rounds

Read more about how you can try out SPOPOS