Student teams (of at least 2 students) are invited to describe their vision of a future office environment, in a written document and a short video.
Selected teams will be nominated for prizes and will be invited to participate in the EUSAI 2004 programme.

At EUSAI 2004, a panel of experts will select the winning teams out of the nominated entries.
The criteria for the selection will be: Innovation, Originality, Clarity and Quality of the presentation in the video and written forms (see submission guidelines).
Wild, “out of the box” ideas are welcome. All rights to the submitted ideas automatically become property of Océ Technologies B.V.

Prizes:
1st prize: 2500 Euro
2nd prize: 1500 Euro
3rd prize: 1000 Euro
For more information, please visit the Oce Student Competition’s web site available at: http://competition.oce.com.
A [PDF] version of the call for participation is also available.

List of Five Nominees
After a hard time selecting the bests candidates for the award, we have chose 5 out of the 8 projects received. The nominees are:

* Smart Office Space – User System Interaction programme, IPO department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Anke Eyck, Kelvin Geerlings, Dina Karimova, Bernt Meerbeek, Lu Wang
* Personal Emotional Tool – Dipartamento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Sienna, Italy
Team members: A. Agueci, A. Fedeli, S. Guastaldi, D. Spigolon, M. Valentini
* The Cube: One Office Many Faces – Industrial Design department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Loes Smits, Liane Wester, Ivo Stuyfzand, Maarten Brugmans, Jussuf Kopalit, Ingmar Hendriks
* Interficium – Department of Social Psychology of IT and Communication, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
Team members: Marcin Bober, Piotr Haltof
* The Pervasive Office – User System Interaction programme, IPO department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Alia Amin, Barbaros Metin, Jutta Schneider, Olga Kulyk

1. [s] Tom Broens and Stanislav Pokraev. Context-aware, ontology-based, service discovery
2. [s] Bob Hulsebosch, Alfons Salden and Mortaza Bargh. Context-based Service Access for Train Travelers
3. [s] S.H. Kalisvaart, E.M.C. Garcia Lechner and F.J. Lefeber.System for Monitoring and Coaching of Sportsmen
4. [s] Andrés Lucero, Tatiana Lashina, Elmo Diederiks. From Imagination to Experience: The Role of Feasibility Studies in Gathering Requirements for Ambient Intelligent Products

1. [L] Elise van den Hoven and Berry Eggen. Tangible Computing in Everyday Life: Extending Current Frameworks for Tangible User Interfaces with Personal Objects
2. [L] Marianne Graves Petersen and Kaj Grønbæk. Shaping the Ambience of Homes with Domestic Hypermedia
3. [s] J.W.Frens, J.P.Djajadiningrat, C.J.Overbeeke. Rich Interaction: Issues

1. [L] Zhang Lei, Wang Xuehui, Dou Wenhua. A Fair Energy Conserving Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
2. [L] Kjeld H. Mortensen, Kari S. F. Schougaard, Ulrik P. Schultz. Distance-Based Access Modifiers Applied to Safety in Home Networks
3. [s] Jan Petzold, Faruk Bagci, Wolfgang Trumler, and Theo Ungerer. Confidence Estimation of the State-Predictor-Method

1. [L] João Nuno Silva and Paulo Ferreira. Remote code execution on ubiquitous mobile applications
2. [s] Christos Goumopoulos, Eleni Christopoulou, Nikos Drossos and Achilles Kameas. The PLANTS System: Enabling Mixed Societies of Communicating Plants and Artefacts
3. [s] Ben Salem, Matthias Rauterberg. Multiple User Profile Merging

1. [L] E Homayounvala, A.H Aghvami. Performance Evaluation of Personal Agent Migration Policies in an Ambient Use Case Scenario
2. [L] Martin Strohbach, Gerd Kortuem, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Christian Kray. Using Cooperative Artefacts as Basis for Activity Recognition
3. [L] Wim F.J. Verhaegh, Aukje E.M. van Duijnhoven, Pim Tuyls, and Jan Korst. Privacy protection in memory-based collaborative filtering

1. [L] Oguz Icoglu, Klaus A. Brunner, Ardeshir Mahdavi, and Georg Suter. Location Sensing for Self-updating Building Models
2. [L] Teresa Ko and Nina Berry. Distributed Feature Extraction for Event Identification
3. [L] Frank Siegemund and Tobias Krauer. Integrating Handhelds into Environments of Cooperating Smart Everyday Objects

1. [L] G.M.P. O’Hare, S. Keegan & M.J. O’Grady. Realizing the Ambient Intelligence Vision through the Deployment of Mobile, Intentional Agents
2. [L] Kostas Stathis and Francesca Toni. Ambient Intelligence using KGP Agents

1. [L] Florian Block, Albrecht Schmidt, Nicolas Villar, Hans W. Gellersen. Towards a Playful User Interface for Home Entertainment Systems
2. [L] Martens, Aliakseyeu & de Pijper. VIEWs: Visual Interaction Enriched Window

1. [L] Eleni Christopoulou, Achilles Kameas. Using ontologies to address key issues in ubiquitous computing systems
2. [L] Juergen Bohn, Friedemann Mattern. Super-Distributed RFID Tag Infrastructures
3. [L] Sang-Hee Park, Hye-Soo Kim, Chun-Su Park, Kyunghun Jang, and Sung-Jea Ko. QoS Provision Using Dual RF Modules in Wireless LAN

1. [L] Sérgio A. T. Barretto, Miguel Mira da Silva. Using Integration Frameworks for Developing Context-Aware Applications
2. [L] Michael Hellenschmidt, Thomas Kirste. A Generic Topology for Ambient Intelligence
3. [L] Davy Preuveneers, Jan Van den Bergh, Dennis Wagelaar, Andy Georges, Peter Rigole, Tim Clerckx, Yolande Berbers, Karin Coninx, Viviane Jonckers, Koen De Bosschere. Towards an extensible context ontology for Ambient Intelligence

1. [L] L. Balme, A. Demeure, N. Barralon, J. Coutaz, G. Calvary. ETHYLENE-RT: a Software Architecture ReferenceModel for Distributed, Migratable, and Plastic UserInterfaces
2. [L] Hans Myrhaug, Nik Whitehead, Ayse Goker, Tor Erlend Faegri and Christopher Till Lech. AmbieSense – A System and Reference Architecture for Personalised Context-Sensitive Information Services for Mobile Users
3. [s] Patrícia Dockhorn Costa, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen and Diego Rios. A Services Platform for Context-Aware Applications

1. [L] Markopoulos, P., Mavromatti, I., Kameas, A.. End-User Configuration of Ambient Intelligence Environments: Feasibility from a User Perspective
2. [s] Antti Pirhonen. From Metaphors to Simulations to Idioms: Supporting the Conceptualisation Process
3. [s] Meghan Deutscher, Phillip Jeffrey, Nelson Siu. Information Capture Devices for Social Environments
4. [s] Manasawee Kaenampornpan and Eamonn O’Neill. Modelling Context: an Activity Theory Approach

Program Chairs
Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Berry Eggen (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Emile Aarts (Philips Research)
James Crowley (INP Grenoble)

Tutorials Chair
Boris de Ruyter (Philips Research)

Workshops Chair
Ian McClelland (Philips PDSL)

Demonstrations Chair
Kristof van Laerhoven (Lancaster University)
Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University)

Posters Chair
Wijnand IJsselsteijn (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Treasurer
Harm van Essen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Communications and Venue
Elise van den Hoven (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Evelien Perik (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Press Liaison
Franka van Neerven – van den Broek (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Conference System Management
Natalia Romero (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Boris de Ruyter (Philips Research)
Andres Lucero (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Design
Andres Lucero (Eindhoven University of Technology)