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Dates

Monday March 30th to Thursday April 2nd 2009

Venue

The Park Inn, Nottingham - a venue just outside Nottingham city centre, with excellent bus links into the city. Participants enjoyed sole-occupancy en-suite accommodation and leisure facilities (gym, swimming pool, jacuzzi, steam room and sauna) plus plenty of good food!

Spring School Content

The Spring School covered all aspects of ubiquitous computing through tutorial sessions, practical workshops, poster sessions, evening social events and networking opportunities - participants included PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and research assistants, plus one or two professors! The final version of the programme can be found here.

The Director of the Spring School was Tom Rodden (Nottingham, UK).

Where appropriate, some sessions were run at the University of Nottingham, with all transportation between venues provided.

Tutorials included:

Yvonne Rogers (Open University, UK) - Introduction to Human Computer Interaction

Derek McAuley (Cambridge, UK) - Case Studies in UbiComp Commercialisation

Kay Connelly (Indiana University, USA) - Pervasive Healthcare User Methods

Albrecht Schmidt (Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - User Interface Engineering for UbiComp

Andy Crabtree and Peter Tolmie (Nottingham, UK) - Ethnography and UbiComp

Paddy Nixon (University College Dublin/TRIL, Ireland) - Systems Software for UbiComp

Matt Jones (Swansea, UK) - Mobile Interaction Design

Chris Baber (Birmingham, UK) - Wearable Computing

Claire O'Malley (Nottingham, UK) - Ethics and User Studies in UbiComp

Robin Milner (Cambridge, UK) - Bigraphs for UbiComp

Practical sessions included:

Dan Chalmers (Sussex, UK) - Phidget Interface Kits

Andy Crabtree and Peter Tolmie (Nottingham, UK) - Doing Ethnography

Albrecht Schmidt (Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Prototyping Novel User Interfaces

Eamonn O'Neill (Bath, UK), Tom Rodden (Nottingham, UK), Marina Jirotka (Oxford, UK) - Practical elements of ethics and user studies

Mark Kattenbelt (Oxford, UK) - Verifying reliability, security and the performance of distributed systems with PRISM

Duncan Rowland, Martin Flintham (Nottingham, UK) - Introduction to Locative Game Authoring

The final version of the programme can be found here.