The following organizations will host an exhibit at MobileHCI 2008:

• Amsterdam Innovation Motor
• Noldus Information Technology
• Tobii Technology
• Freeband A-muse, AWARENESS and Xensor

Amsterdam Innovation Motor

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Noldus Information Technology

Noldus Information Technology develops, markets, and supports professional software and instrumentation for research on human or animal behavior. Our products enable the collection, analysis, management, and presentation of behavioral data. Scientists, engineers, and practitioners use our products to study behavioral processes, automate measurements, improve the quality of their data, increase productivity, and make optimal use of human or animal resources.

Our product range includes a number of products developed for usability research, such as The Observer, Pocket Observer, Theme, FaceReader, and uLog. In addition, we offer accessories to complete the experimental set-up, such as keyboard solutions, eye trackers, mobile device cameras, and spectacles cameras. Next to that, we can provide integrated data acquisition and data analysis systems, including PCs and various sorts of audiovisual equipment, as well as complete stationary or portable observational laboratories.

We naturally provide our customers with professional consulting, demonstration, and rental services, technical support, and training if needed. Next to our headquarters in The Netherlands, we operate from several regional offices in the USA and Europe, as well as through a worldwide network of distributors and agents. Visit Noldus Information Technology for more information.

Tobii Technology

Tobii Technology is the world leader in hardware and software solutions for eye tracking, enabling a computer to tell exactly where a person is looking and thereby offering new powerful ways to understand user behaviour. Products are widely used in usability studies of websites, software, computer games, interactive TV, e-mail campaigns, mobile devices and other physical products.

The company is based in Stockholm, Sweden, with offices in the US, Germany and Japan. Products are sold directly and through resellers and partners worldwide. Visit www.tobii.com for more information.

Freeband

A-Muse: Model-Driven Development of Android Applications

AndroMate has been developed in response to Google's Android Developer Challenge. It is an environment for model-driven development of Android applications. AndroMate stands for Android Automate, because it automates the development of Android applications. AndroMate consists of the Android Modeller, which can be used to graphically model Android applications, and the Android Code Generator, which can be used to generate the Android code from such a model. Visit Freeband A-Muse for more information.

AWARENESS: Context AWARE mobile NEtworks and ServiceS

An increasing number of mobile devices, sensors and consumer electronics are equipped with wireless) networking capabilities. These devices communicate via different types of networks, and together enable a complete new generation of applications: context aware and pro-active applications. These applications make use of the context of their users, i.e., are able to react on changes in the end-user’s context, such as available network resources, user preferences, user environment and situation. These applications are pro-active because of their ability to timely react on (predicted) changes in the context of the end-user. The AWARENESS project focuses on an infrastructure that enables rapid and easy development of context-aware and pro-active applications in a secure and privacy-conscious manner. For validation purposes particular attention is paid to mobile health applications for tele-monitoring and tele-treatment, but the AWARENESS infrastructure can also support applications in other domains.

During the AWARENESS exhibit several results of the project will be presented and demonstrated. Visit AWARENESS for more information.

Xensor: Using Smartphones to Study User Experience in Context

The Xensor System turns mobile devices into instruments that collect data about human behavior in the field. Running on a smartphone carried by a human subject, Xensor is an extensible system that can sample subjective user experiences and capture objective data about (social) context and application usage, at any time and in any location where subjects go. You are invited to visit the exhibit to check out whether the Xensor System is something you can use in your own field studies. The Xensor System is one of the results of the Freeband FRUX project and will soon be released open source.