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# Ambient Information Systems 2008

### Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Ambient Information Systems
Colocated at Ubicomp 2008
Seoul, South Korea, September 21, 2008.

Edited by

### William R. Hazlewood, School of Informatics, Indiana University @ Bloomington, USA
Lorcan Coyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Zachary Pousman, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Youn-kyung Lim, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, South Korea.

## Table of Contents

- Ambient Information Systems 2008 - Introduction
  William R. Hazlewood, Lorcan Coyle, Zachary Pousman, and Youn-kyung Lim

1. Ambient interface design for a Mobile Browsing Experience (AMBE)
   Rosaleen Hegarty, Tom Lunney, Kevin Curran, and Maurice Mulvenna
2. Ambient Life: Interrupted Permanent Tactile Life-like Actuation as a Status Display in Mobile Phones
   Fabian Hemmert
3. Stay-in-touch: a System for Ambient Social Reminders
   Eugene Kenny, Ross Shannon, and Aaron Quigley
4. User Generated Ambient Presence
   Germán Lado Insua, Mike Bennett, Paddy Nixon, and Lorcan Coyle
5. InfoPulse: a Wristworn Ambient Display
   Eric Migicovsky
6. The Invisible Display - Design Strategies for Ambient Media in the Urban Context
   Dietmar Offenhuber
7. Ambient Displays in Academic Settings: Avoiding their Underutilization
   Umar Rashid and Aaron Quigley
8. A Notification System for a Landmine Detector Using Distributed Cognition
   Silvia Torsi and Antonio Rizzo
9. Ambient Façades
   Bernhard Wally and Alois Ferscha

## Bibtex files

The proceedings can be cited using the workshop bibtex file.

The proceedings are usually cited as follows:

      William R. Hazlewood, Lorcan Coyle, Zachary Pousman and Youn-kyung Lim (eds.): Proc. of 2nd Workshop on
      Ambient Information Systems. Colocated with Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, South Korea, September 21, 2008,
      CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-402/.

A paper in CEUR-WS.org should be cited using its online URL, e.g.,

       Rosaleen Hegarty, Tom Lunney, Kevin Curran, and Maurice Mulvenna: Ambient interface design for a Mobile Browsing Experience (AMBE).
       Proc. of 2nd Workshop on Ambient Information Systems. Colocated with Ubicomp 2008, Seoul, South Korea, September 21, 2008,
       CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-402/paper01.pdf

13-Oct-2008: submitted by Lorcan Coyle
13-Oct-2008: published on CEUR-WS.org