Stavros Antifakos

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Research interests

Stavros Antifakos was working in the research field of ubiquitous computing. His main focus was on designing systems using a variety of simple sensors to perceive the actions in the world.

Stavros was engaged in the Smart-Its project.
His doctoral thesis can be downloaded from following links:
download pdf (~4MB)
Some of his research work:
Proactive Furniture Assembly
Sensors for Ubiquitous Computing
The Java Perception API
I2C version of Perception API to use with the Smart-Its Bluetooth node

Advisor: Bernt Schiele

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science at ETH

Dipl.-Informatik-Ing. ETH (M.Sc. in Computer Science)

ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 2001.

 

Experience

Goldman Sachs & Co Bank, Zurich, Switzerland  

Internship (November 2000 - January 2001)

Advisors: J. Allen and M. Nordeen

Project: Implementation of new Dividend Booking System to comply with new Tax Regulations  

ETH Zurich, Computer Graphics Lab, Zurich, Switzerland  

Assistant (Summer 1999)

Advisor: Thomas Sprenger

Project: Java front-end development for Ivory - a Framework for the Visualization of Multidimensional Data Relations  

Short Bio

Stavros Antifakos completed his doctoral thesis in December 2004. He is now working at a consulting and engineering company in Zurich.

September 2001, Stavros Antifakos started as a PhD student of Bernt Schiele in the Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision Group (PCCV), Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
His research interests are perceptual computing with a diverse set of sensors, collective perception using distributed sensor networks and applications for ubiquitous computing environments. He is working on the Smart-Its project.

Before starting his PhD, Stavros obtained a M.Sc. (Dipl.Ing.) in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2001. His master's thesis is titled Exploration of Perceptual Computing for Smart-Its and was conducted in the research group of Bernt Schiele at the ETH Zurich.

Publications

• A model for human interruptability: experimental evaluation and automatic estimation from wearable sensors.
  Nicky Kern, Stavros Antifakos, Bernt Schiele, and Adrian Schwaninger. In IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (in press) (Oct 31 - Nov 3 2004).

• Towards Distributed Awareness - An Artifact based Approach.
  Florian Michahelles,Stavros Antifakos, Albrecht Schmidt, Michael Beigl, and Bernt Schiele. In Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2004), Lake District, UK 2004.

• Evaluating the Effects of Displaying Uncertainty in Context-Aware Systems.
  Stavros Antifakos, Adrian Schwaninger, and Bernt Schiele. In Ubicomp'04, 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, September 2004.

• Towards Situation-Aware Affordances: An Experimental Study.
  Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles, and Bernt Schiele. In Pervasive'04 International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Vienna, April 2004.

• Building intelligent environments with Smart-Its
  Lars Erik Holmquist, Hans-Werner Gellersen, Gerd Kortuem, Albrecht Schmidt, Martin Strohbach, Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles, Bernt Schiele , Michael Beigl and Ramia Maze, In Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, Jan/Feb 2004, page 56 - 64, Volume: 24 , Issue: 1, ISSN: 0272-1716.

• The Role of Perception in Ubiquitous Interactive Systems,
  Stavros Antifakos, Jan Borchers, and Bernt Schiele. At the Crossroads: The Interaction of HCI and Systems Issues in UbiComp. Workshop at UbiComp 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2003.
• Instructions immersed into the real world How your Furniture Can Teach You,
  Florian Michahelles, Stavros Antifakos, Jani Boutellier, Albrecht Schmidt, and Bernt Schiele. Poster at UbiComp 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2003.
• LaughingLily: Using a Flower as a Real World Information Display,
  Stavros Antifakos and Bernt Schiele. Poster at UbiComp 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2003.
• Grouping Mechanisms for Smart Objects Based On Implicit Interaction and Context Proximity,
  Stavros Antifakos, Lars Erik Holmquist, and Bernt Schiele. Poster at UbiComp 2003, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2003.
• Designing Physical Interaction with Sensor Drawbacks in Mind,
  Stavros Antifakos, Jan Borchers, and Bernt Schiele, PI2003 Physical Interaction 2003 Workshop on Real World User Interfaces, Mobile HCI 2003 Fifth International Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Udine, Italy, September, 2003).
• Mobile Ad-hoc Communication Issues in Ubiquitous Computing: The Smart-Its Experimentation Platforms,
  Albrecht Schmidt, Frank Siegemund, Michael Beigl, Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles, and Hans-Werner Gellerson, In Project Presentation Personal Wireless Communication (PWC 03), September 2003, Venice, Italy.
• Bridging the Gap Between Virtual and Physical Games using Wearable Sensors ,
  Stavros Antifakos and Bernt Schiele, In The 6th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Seattle, Washington, USA, October 2002.
• Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly,
  Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles, and Bernt Schiele, In The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2002, Göteborg, September 2002.
• Beyond Position Awareness,
  Stavros Antifakos and Bernt Schiele,
  Extended version with more experiments. In Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Volume 6 Issue 5, Edited by Michael Beigl, 2002.
• Beyond Position Awareness,
  Bernt Schiele and Stavros Antifakos, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Location Modeling at UBICOMP 2001, Atlanta, 2001.
• Modeling and Recognizing a Proximity Hierarchy using Wireless Sensor Networks,
  Stavros Antifakos and Bernt Schiele, Technical report.
• Exploration of Perceptual Computing for Smart-Its,
  Stavros Antifakos. Diploma Thesis, Computer Science Department, ETH Zürich, June 2001.