Dana's Space

Since starting my professional career in 1999 with Nokia Research, I have been working in various projects related to ubiquitous computing and, more specifically, context aware computing. I have been always fascinated by what happens when computing systems become a bit more aware of user’s context and what are the various issues involved, starting with sensing and ending with privacy concerns and proper interaction paradigms.
My research work over the years can be roughly separated in middleware-focused and applications/services focused. Here are short descriptions of what I have been working on for through various projects and organizations.

Context-aware systems and environments

• Context-aware systems for supporting self-understanding (current work)
• Spiritual Computing
• Lifelogging
• Context-awareness in ad-hoc communities
• Affective and Context-aware Personal Assistant
• Agent-based Smart Environments

Enabling distributed context awareness

• Distributed context-aware middleware
• Sensing mobile-based middleware

Based on the work performed within these projects, over the years I have filed various patent applications in areas related to context awareness. Here you can find a list of applications and granted patents.