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Rainer Wasinger

B.Sc., B.Eng. (Electrical) Hons., Dr.-Ing.,
Postdoctoral Researcher

Smart Services CRC

The School of Information Technologies
SIT Building J12, Room 327
Sydney University, NSW, 2006
Australia

Ph: +61 (2) 9036-9746 | Fax: +61 (2) 9351-3838
Email:    
Website: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~wasinger/
Personal: http://rainet.wasinet.com
Short Biography and Research Interests:

Graduating with Engineering and Science degrees from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2001, I worked in the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) department at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), in Saarbrücken, Germany, for 5 years. During this time, I also completed my doctorate titled "Multimodal Interaction with Mobile Devices" at Saarland University, with Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster as my supervisor. Upon returning to Australia at the end of 2006, and after successfully concluding a short 3 month project at Sydney University in the Smart Internet Technology (SIT) CRC, dealing with tabletop interaction, I took up the position of Research Fellow at the Centre for Language Technology (CLT), Macquarie University, Australia, led by Prof. Robert Dale. For the following year, I worked on the project "From Talking Heads to Thinking Heads", a joint ARC/NH&MRC Thinking Systems Special Initiative, tasked with building an embodied conversational agent. My role during this time was the implementation of a dialogue manager, based on the information-state-update approach, and using the Trindi framework as its basis.

I am currently working in the CHAI group at the School of Information Technologies, Sydney University, and in particular, on the Smart Services CRC project titled "Multi-Channel Content Delivery and Mobile Personalisation". This project has a strong focus on the themes: context awareness, content re-purposing, and mobile computing.

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction; intelligent user interfaces; artificial intelligence; mobile and ubiquitous computing; multimodal interaction; modality fusion; natural language processing; context adaptation; content re-purposing.

Research Activities:

Teaching Assistance:

Publications (Books, Book Chapters, Journals, Conferences, and Workshops):

Books:

[1] Rainer Wasinger,
"Multimodal Interaction with Mobile Devices: Fusing a Broad Spectrum of Modality Combinations", [BibTeX] [Link]
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka GmbH (ISBN: 3-89838-305-9 and ISBN: 1-58603-712-9), 2006.
 

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

[1] Antonio Krüger, Jörg Baus, Dominik Heckmann, Michael Kruppa, Rainer Wasinger,
"Adaptive Mobile Guides", [BibTeX] [Link]
Chapter in: Brusilovsky, P., Kobsa, A., Nejdl, W. (eds.): The Adaptive Web: Methods and Strategies of Web Personalization.
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer (ISBN: 978-3540720782), 2007, pp. 521-549.

[2] Rainer Wasinger, Wolfgang Wahlster,
"Multi-modal Human-Environment Interaction", [BibTeX] [Link]
Chapter in: E. Aarts and J. L. Encarnação (eds.): True Visions: The Emergence of Ambient Intelligence.
Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer (ISBN: 3-540-28972-0), 2006, pp. 291-306.

[3] Rainer Wasinger, Antonio Krüger,
"Multi-modal Interaction with Mobile Navigation Systems", [BibTeX] [Link]
In: W. Wahlster (ed.): Special Journal Issue "Conversational User Interfaces", it - Information Technology 46 (2004) 6,
München: Oldenbourg (ISSN 1611-2776), 2004, pp. 322-331.


Conference Papers (peer reviewed):

[1] Gerrit Kahl, Rainer Wasinger, Tim Schwartz, Lübomira Spassova,
"Three Output Planning Strategies for Use in Context-aware Computing Scenarios", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the AISB Symposium on Multimodal Output Generation (MOG), Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2008, pp. 46-49.

[2] Jörg Baus, Rainer Wasinger, Ilhan Aslan, Antonio Krüger, Andreas Maier, Tim Schwartz,
"Auditory Perceptible Landmarks in Mobile Navigation", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2007, pp. 302-304.

[3] Michael Schneider, Alexander Kröner, Rainer Wasinger,
"Augmenting Interaction in Intelligent Environments through Open Personal Memories", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE), Athens, Greece, 2006, pp. 407-416.

[4] Rainer Wasinger, Antonio Krüger,
"Modality Preferences in an Instrumented Environment", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sydney, Australia, 2006, pp. 336-338.

[5] Lübomira Spassova, Rainer Wasinger, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger,
"Product Associated Displays in a Shopping Scenario", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 4th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Vienna, Austria, 2005, pp. 210-211.

[6] Rainer Wasinger, Antonio Krüger, Oliver Jacobs,
"Integrating Intra and Extra Gestures into a Mobile and Multimodal Shopping Assistant", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive), Munich, Germany, 2005, pp. 297-314.

[7] Antonio Krüger, Andreas Butz, Christian Müller, Christoph Stahl, Rainer Wasinger, Karl-Ernst Steinberg, Andreas Dirschl,
"The Connected User Interface: Realizing a Personal Situated Navigation Service", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Madeira, Portugal, 2004, pp. 161-168.

[8] Rainer Wasinger, Christoph Stahl, Antonio Krüger,
 "M3I in a Pedestrian Navigation & Exploration System", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the Fifth International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices (Mobile HCI), Udine, Italy, 2003, pp. 481-485.

[9] Rainer Wasinger, Christoph Stahl, Antonio Krüger,
"Robust speech interaction in a mobile environment through the use of multiple and different media input types", [BibTeX]
Proc. of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech), Geneva, Switzerland, 2003, pp. 1049-1052.


Workshop Papers (peer reviewed):

[1] Rainer Wasinger, Antonio Krüger,
"Modality Preference - Learning from Users", [BibTeX]
Workshop on User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing (Experience) at Pervasive, Munich, Germany, 2005.

[2] Rainer Wasinger, Michael Schneider, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger,
"Multimodal Interactions with an Instrumented Shelf", [BibTeX]
Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS) at UbiComp, Nottingham, UK, 2004, pp. 36-43.

[3] Christoph Stahl, Jörg Baus, Antonio Krüger, Dominik Heckmann, Rainer Wasinger, Michael Schneider,
"REAL: Situated Dialogues in Instrumented Environments", [BibTeX]
Workshop on Invisible and Transparent Interfaces (ITI) at AVI, Gallipoli, Italy, 2004, pp. 10-15.

[4] Christian Kray, Rainer Wasinger, Gerd Kortuem,
"Concepts and issues in interfaces for multiple users and multiple devices", [BibTeX]
Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces (MU3I) at IUI/CADUI, Madeira, Portugal, 2004, pp. 7-12.

[5] Rainer Wasinger, Dominika Oliver, Dominik Heckmann, Bettina Braun, Boris Brandherm, Christoph Stahl,
"Adapting Spoken and Visual Output for a Pedestrian Navigation System, based on given Situational Statements", [BibTeX]
Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modelling in Interactive Software Systems (ABIS), 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany pp. 343-346.

[6] Rainer Wasinger, Christian Kray, Christoph Endres,
"Controlling multiple devices", [BibTeX]
Physical Interaction (PI03) Workshop on Real World User Interfaces at MobileHCI, Udine, Italy, 2003, pp. 60-63.

[7] Christian Müller, Rainer Wasinger,
"Adapting Multimodal Dialog for the Elderly", [BibTeX]
ABIS Workshop on Personalization for the Mobile World, Hannover, Germany, 2002, pp. 31-34.

[8] Antonio Krüger, Michael Kruppa, Christian Müller, Rainer Wasinger,
"Readapting Multimodal Presentations to Heterogenous User Groups", [BibTeX]
AAAI-Workshop on Intelligent Situation-Aware Media and Presentations (ISAMP), Alberta, Canada, 2002, pp. 46-54.

Media Coverage:
[1] TV, SR-1 Reportage on Zentrum für Sprachforschung, Aktueller Bericht, June 17, 2005.
Video (60MB, 3:11mins), Sprechende Regal, 1:23-1:55mins.

[2] Newspaper, Computer Zeitung, 35.Jahrgang Nr.10, 07.March.2005, Brennpunkt: Cebit - Leben und Arbeiten in der digitalen Welt, pg. 12.