Research:
In my current activities, I am addressing the research question of the diversity of location-detection approaches and mechanisms available in ubiquitous environments these days viewed from a frequently moving user's perspective. Given the imprecise and uncertain nature of spatial information, the highly dynamic, as well as demanding, nature of ubiquitous environments, and the inevitable fact of the presence of positioning errors, a major focus of my ongoing research is to find a means to present this variability to the user in the most convenient way in order to lower their frustration and confusion that come from frequent changes and to keep their satisfaction at a high level.
Besides, since location is a truly broad topic, I'm also interested in addressing the variability of (run-time) location information within different domains and problems where knowing about it turns out to be helpful.
Publications:
- O brother, where art thou located?: Raising awareness of variability in location tracking for users of location-based pervasive applications
Petr Aksenov, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Journal of Location Based Services
JLBS, ?(?), pp. 1-23, ISSN 1748–9725 print/ISSN 1748–9733 online, 2012.
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- A Unified Approach to Uncertainty-Aware Ubiquitous Localisation of Mobile Users
Petr Aksenov, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
IJITWE, 6(4), pp. 20-34, ISSN 1554-1045, EISSN 1554-1053, October-December 2011.
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Preceded by
A Unified Scalable Model of User Localisation with Uncertainty Awareness for Large-scale Pervasive EnvironmentsPetr Aksenov, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Proc. of the 5th Int. Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies
NGMAST 2011, pp. 212-217, ISBN 978-0-7695-4496-0, September 2011
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Best Paper Award
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- Geo-Social Interaction: Context-Aware Help in Large Scale Public Spaces
Nasim Mahmud, Petr Aksenov, Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Davy Preuveneers, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx, Yolande Berbers
Proc. of the 1st Int. Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence
AmI 2010, LNCS 6439, pp. 107-116, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-16916-8, November 2010
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- Location-driven Adaptation of User Interfaces in Pervasive Environments
Petr Aksenov
Doctoral Colloquium
Pervasive 2010, 8 pages, May 2010
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- Coping with Variability of Location Sensing in Largescale Ubicomp Environments
Petr Aksenov, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Proc. of the 1st Int. Workshop on Sensing and Acting in Ubiquitous Environments
SEACUBE 2009, pp. 1-5, ISBN 978-1-4244-3942-3, October 2009
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- Ambient Compass: One Approach to Model Spatial Relations
Petr Aksenov, Geert Vanderhulst, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Proc. of the 13th Int. Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
HCI International 2009, LNCS 5620, pp. 183-191, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-02808-3, July 2009
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- Reasoning Over Spatial Relations for Context-Aware Distributed User Interfaces
Petr Aksenov, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx
Proc. of the 5th Int. Workshop on Modeling and Reasoning in Context
MRC 2008, pp. 37-50, ISBN 978-2-908849-22-6, June 2008
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You might also want to take a look at my master's thesis devoted to the problem of applying genetic algorithms to computer chess:
- Genetic algorithms for optimising chess position scoring
Petr Aksenov
MSc thesis, University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finalnd, 2004
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