Institute for Pervasive Computing IPC
Johannes Kepler University Linz
The IPC is among the first research institutions worldwide to address the research issues arising from networked embedded systems being integrated into objects and environments of everyday life systematically and from different angles of perspective. Headed by Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alois Ferscha since his start at the JKU in the year 2000, now more than 15 permanent researchers contribute to the lines of research at the department, ranging from Networked Embedded Systems and Architectures to Coordination and Interaction, to Distributed and Embedded Systems SW, to Parallel and Distributed (Interactive) Simulations and (more recently) to Human-Computer-Confluence and Cognitive ICT. The department has also focused research activities within the Pervasive Computing domain aligned along Context/Awareness, Attention/Cognition, Intelligence, Smart Appliances, Natural Interfaces and Software Architecture. The research initiative of the department has led to a consolidated research program also at the level of the whole University - the 'Exzellenzinititative Pervasive Computing' (under the leadership of A. Ferscha), by pooling the competencies of about 12 departments at the Science and Engineering school. DI Dr. Andreas Riener is a post-doctoral researcher at IPC, focusing on subliminal information exchange and workload reduction in cognitive ICT systems.
Institute for Pervasive Computing - IPC
Pervasive Computing Application PCA
Research Studios Austria
The PCA studio has been an active contributor to application oriented research on a national and international scale and has developed several systems and devices interfacing humans with machines. PCA is closely related to IPC regarding its R&D agenda, but focuses on applied research and projects/solutions for specific industrial partners in the (mainly) Austrian market. DI Benedikt Gollan, works as researcher in the field of human-computer-interaction and is specialized in Automated Human Attention Recognition using ICT systems. He is developing approaches and especially realizations, which show that ICT based Attention recognition appears to be feasible and reliable enough for further exploration.
Pervasive Computing Applications - PCA
