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P ro f. Dr . Bea t S i gn er
PERSONAL DETAILS
Surname
First Name
Nationality
Web
Email
Phone
Fax
Signer
Beat
Swiss
www.beatsigner.com
[email protected]
+32 2 629 12 39
+32 2 629 35 25
MAILING ADDRESS
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Department of Computer Science
Pleinlaan 2
1050 Brussels
Belgium
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
August 2005
PhD in Computer Science, ETH Zurich
October 1999
Dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH ( equivalent to a n MSc)
EMPLOYMENT
January 2014 - pr esent
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, Vr ije Universiteit Brussel
February 2009 - December 2013
Assistant Professor (tenure since 1.1.2012 )
Department of Computer Science, Vr ije Universiteit Brussel
October 2007 - Januar y 2009
Senior Resear cher
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich
September 2005 - September 2007
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich
October 1999 - August 2005
Research and Teaching A ssistant
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich
January 1995 - pr esent
Partner and member of the managing board of Tenera AG
Tenera AG, Frick, Switzerland
November 1996 - Mar ch 1997
Industry placement, software engineering for real -time systems
Oerlikon Contraves, Zurich, Switzerland
August 1993 - October 1993
PC software/hardwar e installations and support
Teleprint tdc SA, Baden -Dättwil, Switzerland
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LANGUAGES
German (mother tongue), English (CEFR C1 certificate ), Dutch (advanced),
French (basic), Italian (basic)
REFEREES
Prof. Moira C. Norrie
Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Christian Heath
Interaction and T echnology Research Group, King's College London , UK
Prof. em. David Brailsford
School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Jean Vanderd onckt
Louvain Inter action L aboratory (LILab), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Prof. Brygg Ullmer
Department of Computer Science , LSU, Baton Rouge, USA
Prof. Paul Luff
Interaction and T echnology Research Group, King's College London , UK
Dr. Abigail Sellen
Socio-Digital Systems G roup, Microsoft Research , Cambridge, UK
Prof. Morten Fjeld
Interaction Design Group, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg , Sweden
Prof. Andreas Dengel
German R esear ch Center for Artificial Intelligence ( DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures (CISA), Human-I nformation
Interaction, Ubiquitous and T angible C omputing, Interactive Paper and Augmented
Reality, Multimodal and Multi-Touch Inter action , Personal Information M anagement,
Document Engineer ing, Web Information Systems
EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS
January 2015 - Decem ber 2018 (Promoter)
Towards a Unified Framework for Personal Cross -Media Information
Management
Financing: IWT PhD Scholarship (Sandr a Trullemans)
January 2013 - May 2014 (Promoter)
Towards Context - aware Implicit Multimodal Human -Computer Interaction
Financing: IWT PhD Scholarship (Brecht De Rooms)
October 2012 - September 2016 (Promoter)
Extensible and Scalable Authoring for Open Cross-Media Infor mation Spaces
Financing: VUB -OZR PhD Scholarship (Ahmed A.O. T ayeh)
January 2012 - Novem ber 2015 (Co-Promoter)
New Possibilities for P rint Media and Packaging - Combining Pr int w ith Digital
Financing: EU FPS COST Action FP1104
August 2012 (Promoter)
Next Generation User Interfaces
Budget: €6979.32, Financing: VUB -Onder wijsfonds
February 2011 - January 2014 (Co-Promoter)
MobiCraNT - Second Generation Mobile Cross -media Applications: Scalability,
Heterogeneity and Legacy
Budget: €330 978, Financing: Innoviris ICT I mpluse Programme 2010
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January 2011 - December 2014 (Promoter)
Software Engineering Technologie s for Applications with Multimodal
Interaction
Financing: IWT PhD Scholarship (Lode Hoste)
January 2011 - December 2014 (Co-Promoter)
Toward Cognitive Adaptive Edu -games
Budget: €320 000, Financing: VUB-OZR Horizontal Activity (HOA)
January 2009 - now
iRead
Initiative to improve teaching aids (e.g. inter active paper) for rural areas of India in
collabor ation with the bj institu te (Bruno Jehle)
October 2007 - September 2009 (Work Package Leader )
Query by Sketching ( QbS)
SNF Project, Project Partners: University of Basel, ETH Zurich
April 2005 - March 2008 (Work Package Leader )
PaperWorks: Interweaving Paper and Digital Documents
EU STREP (FP6- 516895), Project Partners: King’s College London, ETH Zurich,
University of Brunel, University of M almo, Anoto, Acreo, Ar jowiggins, Pearson
April 22, 2005 - May 8, 2005 (Project Leader )
Generosa Enterprise
Interactive Paper Installation for t he 150 Years ETH Jubilee
January 2004 - Januar y 2007
DELOS: Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries
EU Project (FP6)
July 2005 - December 2005 (Project Leader )
Artists in Labs (AIL) Programme
6 months collabor ation with an artist in res idency
January 2001 - July 2004 (Work Package Leader )
Paper++
EU Project (IST -2000- 26130), Project Partner s: King’s College London, ETH Zurich,
Anitra Medienprojekte GmbH, Arjowiggins, Hewlett -Packard
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TEACHING
Course Lectures
 Next Generation User Interfaces (4018166FNR)
2014-now
 Advanced Topics in Information Systems (4016792ENR)
2011-now
 Web Information Systems (4011474FNR)
2009-now
 Introductio n to Databases (1007156ANR)
2010-now
 Databases (4018173ENR)
2010-now
 Seminar Web Informatio n Systems Technology (WE-DINF-12688)
2009- 2010
 Informatio n Systems (Adv anced Course)
2007- 2008 (led by Prof . Moira C. Norrie)
 Object-Oriented Technolog ies for Data Management
 2000, 2003 (led by Prof. Moira C. Norrie)
Seminar Organisation and Supervision
 Advanced Topics in Information Systems , Winter Term 2008
2005-2006, 2008
 Computer Supported Cooperative Work , Summer Term 2008
2006-2008
Industry Courses
 Web Search (6 hours), Stibbe, Brussel, September, 2011
 XML Solutions, Mar ch 24/25, 2003
 XML Data Modelling , Inf ormation Exchange and Universal
Access, July 8/9, 2002
 XML Solutions, Mar ch 25/26, 2002
 XML Solutions, Mar ch 26/27, 2001
 Web Information Systems, October 9/10, 2000
Course Tutor
 Informatio n Systems (Adv anced Course)
2003- 2004
 Informatio n Systems (Basic Course) , Summer Ter m 2004
2000- 2003
 Object-Oriented Technolog ies for Data Management ,
1999- 2001
 Informatics III, Winter Term 2001/2002
2000- 2001
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SUPERVISION
PhD Students
 Sandr a Trullemans, To wards a Unified Framewo rk for Personal Cross -Media Information
Management, September 2013-now
 Ahmed A.O. Tayeh , Extensible and Scalable Authoring for Open Cross -Media Information
Spaces, October 2012 -now
 Reinout Roels, MindXpres: Towards an Extensible Content -driven Cross -Media
Presentation Tool , October 2012 -now
 Lode Hoste, Software Engineering Techno logies for Developing Multimodal User Interfaces ,
2011-now
 Brecht De Rooms, Towards Context -aware Implicit Multimodal Human -Computer
Interaction , J anuar y 2013 -May 2014
 Adriana Ispas, Investigations on the Benefits of Using Digital Pen and Paper Techno logies in
Meetings, Diss. ETH No. 20157, 2011 (supervision together with Prof. Moira C.
Norrie)
 Nadir Weibel, A Publishing Infrastructure for Interactive Paper Documents , Diss ETH No.
18514, 2009 (super vision together with Prof. Moira C. Norrie)
Postdoc Students
 Dr. Bruno Dumas, Second Generatio n Mobile Cro ss -Media Applications: Scalability ,
Heterogeneity and Leg acy (MobiCraNT) , February 2011-J anuary 2014 (pr omoter)
Bachelor’s Theses
 Ayrton Ver cruysse , Finger Tracking on the Desk and in Th in Air, 2014
 Kevin Van Gyseghem , Dynamic Graph Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentation
Tool, 2013
 Ruben Tytgat , A Declarative Scale -, Rotatio n- and Position-invariant 3D Gesture
Algorithm , 2013
 Audrey Sanctorum , Scratching the Surface , 2013
 Toon Duwee, Expressiv e Control of Augm ented R eality During Live Music
Performances , 2012
 Toon Teugels , Extracting Context Information from Sensors , 2012
 Bram Moerman , Exploring Informatio n Thro ugh Advanced Visualisation T echniques , 2012
 Rik Vanmechelen, iGesture: Implementatio n and Evaluation o f Adv anced Gesture Detection
Algorithms, 2011
 Brecht Van L aethem , Paper-Digital Maps , 2011
 Jeroen Heymans , Pen and Paper -based Object Database Interface , 2011
 Arthur Vogels, iGesture Extension for 3D Input Devices , November 2008
 Hermann Hofstetter , R emote Sketching o n Paper , August 2007
 Gianni Frey, iFlash: A Flash Plug -in for iServer , April 2006
 Samuel Willimann, Active Component Authoring Tool , October 2005
 Ueli Kurmann, I nteractive Paper Laboratory Notebooks , Apr il 2005
 Stefan Naegeli , Eclipse Plug -in for Jawin, April 2005
 Thomas Bruderer , Paper-Based Cross -Media Authoring , Apr il 2005
 Stefan Malär, Advanced XHTML Plug -in for iServer , April 2005
 Sandr a Brockmann, Navigatio n Facilities for Paper -Based Tourist Information System for
the Edinburgh Festiv als , April 2005
 David Mysicka, Link Browser for the Integration Server Architecture (iServer) ,
October 2004
 Nina L aschet, Cross-Media Authoring Tool , October 2004
 Alexandr e de Spindler, Bayesian Network for Prefetching C aches , August 2004
 Philipp Bolliger, Active Components for iServer - In Consideration o f Paper -Based
Authoring, April 2004
 Fabio L anfranchi, QuickTime Movie Plug -in for the Integration Server Architecture
(iServer), August 2003
 Andreas Diener , Authoring Tool for Digitally Augmented Paper , October 2002
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 Michael Stahl, J ava HID-USB API for Windows , October 2002
 Daniel Heiniger and Peter Geissbuehler, Voice -Based User Interface for the eXtensible
Informatio n Management Architecture (XIMA) , April 2001
 Claudia Saupper, E-Mail Application based on OMS Java , Apr il 2001
 Markus Haller, XM L Export for OMS , April 2001
 Gaudenz Alder, J Graph - A Swing Component for Visualizing Graphs , December 2000
 Raphael Huber, A Slim and Open Data Model fo r Public Transport Netwo rk using OMS ,
November 2000
Master ’s Theses
 Jasmien De Ridder, Dig ital Augmentations in the Wild: An Investigatio n of Augmented
Reality Office Settings , 2015
 Tim Reynaert, Re-fining Support for P hysical Document: It is Like a Dream Comes True ,
2015
 Tim Ver eecken, M arrying Digital and Physical Media in Tableto p Enviro nments , 2015
 Joris Vandermeersch, Content Migr ation and Layout for the MindXpres
Presentation Tool, 2015
 Jeroen Nyckees, Distributed Multi-to uch User Interfaces for Modular Musical Expressions ,
2015
 Ngoc Tran, Using Text Mining and Explicit Relationships for Enhanced Retrieval and
Discovery of Desktop Documents , 2015
 David Sverdlov, Open Cross -Document Linking Using an Enhanced XLink Standard,
2015
 Ayrton Ver cruysse, The Perfect Presentation: A T raining Tool for Presentations , 2015
 Audrey Sanctorum, A Visualisatio n for the Linked Personal Cross -Media Information
Space, 2015
 Marius Hirjanu, An Ambient Informatio n System for Smart Lab Environments , 2015
 Payam Ebr ahimi, Note4u: A M ultimodal Notetaking Solutio n , 2015
 Joachim Michiels, Ubiquitous Task Management? That’s Real Science Fiction! , 2015
 David Bos, Multimodal Interaction for the MindXpres Presentation Tool , 2015
 Evgeni Ivakhnov, May the PIM be With Yo u: A Ubiquitous Distributed PIM
System, 2015
 Yves B aeten, Rich Media Plug -ins for the MindXpres Presentation Tool , 2015
 Margot Gadeyne , Augmented Living Rooms: Kinect SLAM + Multimodal Interaction , 2015
 Toon Duwee, AlinkTable: A Visua lisation and Interaction Technique for Linked Personal
Cross-Media I nformation Management Systems , 2014
 Antonios Kafazis , Tang ible Exploration and Quer ying of Cross -Media Information
Spaces, 2014
 Trang Nguyen, I Know What You Did With Your Documents: A Unified Tracking and Re finding Framework , 2014
 Jasper Debie, Guided Data Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentatio n Tool , 2014
 Serafeim Kourlos, From Paper to the Web to the Tablet (and Back): Explo ring Cross Media Linking and Content Creation , 2014
 David Swalus , Enhanced Visualisation of Web Links and Annotations , 2014
 Paul M estereaga, I ntelligent Source Code Visualisation for the MindXpres Presentation
Tool, 2014
 Barry D'Hoine, I dentification and Distributio n of Cross -Media Entities in a Peer -to-Peer
Environment, 2014
 Jochen François , Dynamic Content in Fluid Cross -Media Documents , 2014
 Daniel Velasquez , An Artwork Recommender Sy stem Based on User Profiles and
Preferences , 2014
 Sam Nielandt , A Framework for Real -Time Emotion Recognition with an Online EEGbased BCI during Content Browsing , 2014
 Wouter Mensels , A Framework to Provide User Control in Context -aware Systems , 2014
 Paul B abatunde Otuyalo, Versioning in the Fluid Cross-Media Document Format , 2014
 Ngole Sone Nsime, Paper-Digital Annotations and Informatio n Capture , 2014
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 Roeland Matthijssens, Fixing the Web – Combining Advanced Linking and Visualisation
in HTML5 based on RSL , 2013
 Sandr a Trullemans , Personal Cross -Media Information Management , 2013
( V.Ir.Br. Award 2012 -2013 )
 Christophe Vermeylen , Audience -driven Presentations Based on the MindXpres
Presentation Tool , 2013
 Jeroen Heymans , A WYSIWYG Template Authoring Solutio n for the MindXpres
Presentation Tool , 2013
 Benjamin Peetermans , Automated Gesture C andidates for Full -Body Gesture Recognitio n,
2013
 Reinout Roels , MindXpres - An Extensible Content -driven Cross -Media Presentation
Tool, 2012
 Wouter Van Rossem , An Extensible Framework f or Indoor Positioning on Mobile
Devices, 2012
 Ahmed A.O. Tayeh , A Metamodel and Prototy pe for Fluid Cross-Media Do cument Formats ,
2012
 María Fernanda Solór zano , Mo bile Multimodal Interaction: An Investigation and
Implementation of Context -dependent Adaptation , 2012
 Luis Guillen Barja, Co-located Collaborative T abletop Interaction - An Ev aluation and
Extension of Desig n Guidelines , 2012
 Brecht Van L aethem , Recognitio n of Deict ic and Iconic Gestures for Home
Automatio n, 2012
 Szabolcs B ecze , Map-based Interaction U sing Digital Pen, Stylus and Touch Screen - A
Comparative Evaluatio n o f Usability and Performance , 2012
 Sven De Kock, The Next Generation of Input Devices - SpeeG version 2 , 2012
 Jorn De Baerdemaeker , SpeeG: A Speech- and Gesture -based Text Input Device , 2011
 Tom Antjon , SynergE-Learning: A PaperPoint -based Lecture Capturing and Annotatio n
Tool, September 2011
 Johan Bas, A 3D Gesture Recognitio n Extension for iGesture , September 2011
 Gregory Cardone, An RSL-based Associative Filesystem , November 2010
 Björn Puype, Extending the iGesture Framework with Multimodal Gesture Interaction
Functionality , October 2010 ( Baudouin Elleboudt Award 2011 )
 Katinka Kromwijk , Conference Information System - Analysis, Design and Implementation ,
September 2008
 Monica Frisoni, Distributed Lookup Serv ice for Interactive Paper Applications ,
August 2007
 Ueli Kurmann, iGesture: A General Gesture Recognitio n Framework ,
September 2006
 Alexandr e de Spindler, Distributed Collaborative Informatio n Environment based on
iServer, J anuary 2005
 Carlo Quir ici, Study into Potential Use of Digital Pen and Paper Technology at the SNF ,
October 2004
 Christian Heinzer, Distributed iServer Architecture Based on Peer -to-Peer Concepts ,
October 2003
 Michael Stahl, jUSB - J ava USB API for Windo ws , May 2003
 Simon Schulé, XHTML Plug -in for the Integratio n Server Architecture (iServer) ,
October 2003
 Corsin Decurtins, Visualisation of To urs and Trails , November 2001
 Peter Geissbuehler , Pro viding a Telephone Avalanche Warning Serv ice using XIMA and
VoiceXML, October 2001
 Daniel Heiniger , Providing a Telepho ne Avalanche Warning Service using XIMA and
WML, October 2001
 Raphael Huber, GOMS - A Geographical Object Management System , Apr il 2001
 Michael Grossniklaus, CMServer - An Object-Oriented Framework for Website
Development and Content Management , November 2000
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 Matthias Kistler, WAP Interfac e for OMS Java based on an XML Server Component ,
April 2000
 Michael Gut, Framework for Web Information Sy stems based o n OMS and Java Serv lets ,
November 1999
Internships
 Hercule Kalonji Kalala , A Review of Kinect -based User Interfaces , VLIR scholarship,
October-November 2012
Tutorial Assistants
 Claudio Hatz, iPaper To ols, December 2007
 Michele Croci, iGesture Recognition Framework , October 2007
 Matthias Geel, I nteractive Tabletop , September 2007
 Ueli Kurmann, iGesture Recognitio n Framework , Januar y 2007
 Gianni Frey, iFlash Plug-in for iServer , November 2006
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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Departmental Roles
 Exchange Coordinator for the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, September 2009 -now
 Member of the Univers ity Council for the Mas ter’s of Applied Infor matics at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 -now
 Member of the Univers ity Council for th e Bachelor in Computer Science,
Januar y 2013-now
 Secr etar y of the Exam C ommission for the 1st Bachelor in Computer Science at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 -now
 Secr etar y of the Exam C ommission for the Bachelor in Computer Science at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 -now
 Secr etar y of the Exam C ommission for the Bridging Progr amme in Computer
Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 - now
 Member of the Exam Commission for the Mas ter’s of Applied Infor matics at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 -now
 Member of the Exam Commission for the Mas ter’s of Computer Science at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, J anuary 2013 -now
 Member of the Faculty Teaching Commission (for the Department of Computer
Science) at the Vr ije Universiteit Brussel, October 2011 -J anuary 2014
 Secr etar y of the Exam C ommission for the Department of Computer Science at th e
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, September 2011 -2013
Selection Committees
 Professor of Computer Science (1.0 fte), Software Languages Lab , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2015
 Professor of Computer Science (1.0 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2015
 Professor of Computer Science (0.2 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2014
 Professor of Computer Science (0.2 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2014
 Professor of Computer Science (1.0 fte), Software Languages Lab , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2014
 Professor of Computer Science (1.0 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2013
 Professor of Computer Science (0.5 fte), Software Languages Lab , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2013
 Professor of Computer Science (1.0 fte), Software Languages Lab , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2012
 Professor of Compu ter Science (0.2 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2012
 Professor of Computer Science (0. 1 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2012
 Professor of Computer Science (0.1 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2012
 Professor of Computer Science (0. 1 fte), Web & Information Systems Engineering
Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2012
PhD Juries
 David Catteeuw, T he Emergence of Honest Signaling t hrough Learning and Evolutio n , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, J anuary 2015
 Ugo Sangiorgi, A Metho d for Prototy ping Graphical User Interfaces by Sketching on
Multiple Devices , Univer sité cat holique de Louvain , Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium,
August 2014
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 Dietrich Kammer , Formalisierung gestischer Interaktion für Multitouch-Systeme, TU
Dresden, Dresden, Ger many, Januar y 2014
 Ahmed Ewais , Authoring Adaptive 3D Virtual Learning Enviro nments , Vr ije
Universiteit Brussel , Brussels, Belgium, J anuary 2014
 William Van Woens el, Mobile, Client -Side Context -provisioning via the Decentralized and
Integrated Query ing of Online Semantic Web Data , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels ,
Belgium, September 2013
 Lamia Abo Zaid, The F eature A ssembly Approach for Modelling and Managing Software
Variability , Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussels , Belgium, June 2013
 Quentin Bonnard, Paper Interfaces: An HCI Approach to Geometry Education , École
Polytechnique Fédérale de L ausanne (EPFL) , Lausanne, Switzer land,
December 2012
 Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Handling Partial Failures in Mobile Ad hoc Network Applicatio ns From Programming Language Design to Tool Support , Vr ije Universiteit Br ussel,
Brussels, Belgium, November 2012
 Abdalghani Mushtaha, Towards Designing Localized Websites , Vr ije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, B elgium, August 2012
 Matthias Stevens , Participatory Sensing for Sustainable Societies - The Case of Urban Noise
Pollution, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, June 2012
 Wael Al Sarraj, A Us ability Evaluation Fr amework for Web Mashup Makers for
End-Users, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels , Belgium, Mar ch 2012
 Adriana Ispas, Solutio ns for Natural Notetaking based on Paper -Digital Technologies , ETH
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2011
 Andoni Lombide Carreton, Ambient-oriented Dataflow Programming for Mobile RFID Enabled Applications , Vr ije Universiteit Brussel , Brussels, Belgium, November 2011
 Jorge Vallejos, Modularising Am bient -oriented Applications: Reifying Context Dependency
and Gro up Behav iour , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, June 2011
 Michael Spranger , The Evolutio n of Grounded Spatial Language , Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, B elgium, May 2011
 Andres Yie , A No n-invasive Approach for Evolving Model Transformation Chains , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel , Brussels, Belgium, February 2011
 Mario Sanchez , Executable Models for Extensible Workflow Engines , Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, B elgium, Febr uar y 2011
 Oscar Gonzales, Monito ring and Analysis of Workflow Applications: A Domain -specific
Language Approach , Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Brussels, Belgium, September 2010
 Joris Bleys, Lang uage St rategies for the Domain o f Colou r, Vr ije Universiteit Brussel ,
Brussels, Belgium, June 2010
 Sven Van Segbroeck, C omplex Dynamics in Adaptive Networks , Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Brussels, B elgium, Apr il 2010
 Feng Liu, Bio logical Literature Miner - Gene Normalization and Interactio n Article
Classification , Vr ije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, February 2010
 Yifei Chen, Biological Literature Miner - Gene Mention Recognition and Protein -Protein
Pair Extractio n, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, Febr uar y 2010
 Yan T ang, On Semant ic Decision Tables , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium,
October 2009
Programme Committees
 CHI 2013 , Workshop Selection Committee, International Confer ence on Human
Factors in Computing Systems , Paris, France , April 2013
 CMTA 20 09, 1st Inter national Workshop on Cross -Media Technologies and
Applications , Fukuoka, Japan , Mar ch 2009
 CoPADD 2007, 2nd International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and
Digital Documents, London, UK , November 2007
 CoPADD 2006, 1st International Wor kshop on Collabor ating over Paper and
Digital Documents, CSCW 2006, Banff, Canada , November 2006
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 CrowdUI 2014, 1st International Wor kshop on User Interfaces for Crowdsourcing
and Human Computation, Como, Italy, M ay 2014
 DATAVIEW 2011 , 2nd International Workshop on Data Visualization and
Integration in Enterprises and on the Web, Lugano, Switzerland , September 2011
 DATAVIEW 2010, 1st International Wor kshop on Data Visualization and
Integration in Enterprises and on the Web, Cr ete, Greece, October 2010
 DIS 2014, ACM Confer ence on Designing Interac tive Systems, Vancouver , Canada,
June 2014
 EICS 2015 , 7th ACM SIGCHI Sympos ium on Engineer ing Interactive Computing
Systems, Duisbur g, Germany , June 2015
 ICDEM 2010 , 2nd International Conference on Data Engineer ing and Management ,
Tiruchir appalli , India, July 2010
 ICPCA 2011, 6th Inter national Conference on Pervas ive Computing and
Applications, Port Elizabeth , South Afr ica, October 2011
 ICPCA 2008 , 3rd Inter national Conference on Pervas ive Computi ng and
Applications , Alexandr ia, Egypt , October 2008
 ICPCA 2007 , 2nd Inter national Conference on Pervas ive Computing and
Applications, Birmingham, United Kingdom , J uly 2007
 ICWE 2015, 15th Inter national Conference on Web Engineering, Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, June 2015
 ICWE 2014, 14th Inter national Conference on Web Engineering, Toulouse, France ,
July 2014
 PaperComp 2010, 1st International Wor kshop on Paper Computing, Copenhagen,
Denmark , September 2010,
 RCIS 2012 , 6th International Conference on R esear ch Challenges (demo track),
Valencia, Spain , May 2012
 SAAKM 2009 , Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Kn owledge M arkup Workshop ,
Redondo Beach , USA, September 2009
 SAAKM 2007 , Semantic Authoring, Annotation and Knowledge M arkup Workshop,
Whistler, Can ada, October 2007
 TEI 2015, 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded a nd Embodied
Interaction, Stanford, USA, January 2015
 TEI 2014, 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded a nd Embodied
Interaction, Munich, Germany , February 2014
 TEI 2013, 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied
Interaction, Barcelona, Spain , J anuary 2013
 TEI 2012, 6th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied
Interaction, Kingston, Canada , Februar y 2012
 TEI 2011 , 5th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied
Interaction, Funchal, Portugal, J anuary 2010
 TEI 2010, 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied
Interaction, Cambridge, USA, J anuary 2010
 TEI 2009, 3rd International Conference on Ta ngible and Embedded I nteraction,
Cambr idge, United Kingdom , February 2009
 TEI 2008, 2nd International Conference on T angible and Embedded I nteraction,
Bonn, Germany , Febr uary 2008
 TPDL 2012 , Inter national Confer ence on Theory and Practice of Digital Librar ies,
Cyprus, Cyprus , September 2012
 TPDL 2011, International Confer ence on Theory and Practice of Digital Librar ies ,
Berlin, Germany , September 2011
 VL 2015, 4th Workshop on Vision and Language , Flor ence, Italy, Lay 2015
Reviewer
 ACM TOCHI , ACM T ransactions on Human - Computer Inter action
 CHI 2015 , 33th ACM Confer ence on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul,
Korea, Apr il 2015
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 CHI 2014 , 32th ACM Confer ence on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Toronto, Canada, Apr il 2014
 CHI 2011, 29th ACM Confer ence on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Vancouver, Canada , May 2011
 CHI 2010 , 28th ACM Confer ence on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Atlanta, USA, April 2010
 CHI 2009 , 27th ACM Confer ence on Human Factors in Computing Systems,
Boston, USA , April 2009
 EICS 2014 , 6th ACM SIGCHI Sympos ium on Engineer ing Interactive Computing
Systems, Rome, Italy, J une 2014
 EICS 2013 , 5th ACM SIGCHI Sympos ium on Engineer ing Interactive Computing
Systems, London, UK, June 2013
 i-com, Zeitschrift für interaktive und ko operative M edien , 2012
 IEEE Pervasive Com puting , Journal on R esear ch and Practice in Mobile and
Ubiquitous Computing
 IEEE TLT, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
 IJART, International J ournal of Arts and T echnology
 IJCIS, International Journal of Cooper ative I nformation Systems
 IJHCS, International J ournal on Human - Computer Studies
 IJSWIS, International Journal o n Semantic Web and Information Sys tems
 IS, International Journal of Information Sciences
 ITS 2009, International Conf erence on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces , Banff,
Canada, November 2009
 NordiCHI 2012 , Nordic Forum for Human - Computer Interaction R esearch ,
Copenhagen, Denmark , October 2012
 SCP, Science of Computer Progr amming
 SNF, Swiss National Science Foundation
 TableTop 2006, 1st IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive
Human- Computer Systems, Adelaine, Austr alia , J anuary 2006
 The Computer Journal , British Computer Society
 UbiComp 2011 , 13th I nternational Confer ence on Ubiquitous Computing , Beijing,
China, September 2011
 UbiComp 2006, 8th International Confer ence on Ubiquitous Computing, Orange
County, USA , September 2006
 UIST 2009, 22nd ACM Symposium on User Interface Software, Victoria, Canada ,
October 2009
 UIST 2007, 20th ACM Symposium on Us er Interface Software, Newport, USA,
October 2007
 WWW 2006, 15th Inter national World Wide Web Confer ence, Edinburgh, Scotland ,
May 2006
Session Chair
 WISM 2010 , 7th International Workshop on Web Information Systems Modeling ,
Vancouver, November 2010
 ICOODB 2009, 2nd Internationa l Confer ence on Object Databas es, Zurich,
Switzerland, July 2009
Conference and Workshop Organisation
 Co-organiser of EGMI 2014, 1 st International Workshop on Engineer ing Gestures
for Multimodal Interfaces , Rome, Italy, June 2014
 Tutorial Chair of ICOODB 2010, 3rd International Conference on Objects and
Databases, Frankf urt/Main, Germany, September 2010
 Local Organiser of CAiSE 2001, 13th Confer ence on Advanced Infor mation
Systems Engineering , I nterlaken, Switzerland , June 2001
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Editor
 Proceeding Co- editor of EGMI 2014, 1 st Inter national Workshop on Engineer ing
Gestures for Multimodal Interfaces, J une 2014, Rome, Italy
 Proceedings Editor of CoPADD 2007, 2 nd International Workshop on
Collabor ating ov er Paper and Digital Documents, London, UK, November 2007
 Proceedings Editor of CoPADD 2006, 1st International Wor kshop on Collabor ating
over Paper and Digital Documents, CSCW 2006, Banff, Canada , November 2006
Professional Memberships
 SI, Swiss Informatics Society
 ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
 ACM SIGWEB, ACM Special Inter est Group o n Hypertext, Hypermedia
and the Web
 ACM SIGCHI, ACM Special Inter est Group on Human Computer Interaction
 IEEE , Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engi neers
 IEEE Computer Society
 Digital Pen and Paper Society
Invited Talks
 From PaperPoint to MindXpres - Towards Enhanced Presentation Tools , Education
Thursday, Mechelen, December 4, 2014
 Cross-Media I nformation Spaces and Architectures , Seminar organis ed by I nfogroep,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, April 24, 2013
 Cross-Media I nformation Systems - Quo Vadis? , CRAFT, École Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL), L ausanne, Switzerland, November 2, 2012.
 The Future of Computers and the Internet , Mens en comput er in 2030? , Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, March 24, 2011
 Paper-Digital User I nterfaces – Applications, Fram eworks and Future Challenges , Us er
Interface Colloquium, Otto -von-Guer icke University Magdebur g, Ger many,
November 2, 2009
 Interaktives Papier – Ein neues Medium zur Integration von Papier und digitalen Medien in
crossmedialen Publikationen , Swiss Publishing Week, Hotel B anana City, Winterthur ,
Switzerland, September 2008
 Interactive Paper in Cross -Media Publishing, Zukunft Crossmedia – Publishers
Zukunft? , Schule für Gestaltung Ber n und Biel, Bern, Switzerland, August 2008
 Interactive Paper – I ntroductio n and Basic Technolo gy & Interactive
Paper – Applications and Future Develo pments , Y- Toolbox, Workshop about Paper, Y
(Institute for Tr ansdisciplinarity), Ber n Univer sity of Arts, Be rn, Switzer land,
April 2008
 Integrating Paper and Dig ital I nformatio n Spaces – The iServer/ iPaper So lution , Research
Seminar, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),
Kaisersl autern, German y, M arch 2008
 Interactive Paper and Cross -Media Publishing , Treffpunkt Publishing, Berufsschule für
Gestaltung, Zur ich, Switzer land, J anuary 2008
 Interactive Paper @ ETH Zurich , multi task – Cr ossmediales Publizier en live, multi
digital, Baar, Switzer land, November 2007
 Bridging the Paper -Digital Divide: The iPaper Interactive Paper Framework , Research
Seminar, Faculty of Inf ormatics, University of Lugano, May 2007
Other Activities
 Participant of the Seminar on Professional Education or gan ised by the Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, September 2011, Nieuwpoort, Belgium
 Dutch Course (CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 Effectiveness 1 (A+B), NT2
richtgr aad 4, June 2013
 Dutch Course ( CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 Vantage 1 (A+B),
NT2 richtgraad 3, June 2012
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 Dutch Course ( CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 richtgraad 2, Januar y 2012
 Dutch Course ( CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 richtgraad 2, Thres h old 3 (A+B),
June 2011
 Dutch Course ( CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 richtgraad 2, Thres hold 2 (A+B),
Januar y 2011
 Dutch Course (CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 richtgraad 2, Thres hold 1 (A+B),
June 2010
 Dutch Course ( CVO - KHNB), Certificate NT2 richtgraad 1, Januar y 2010
 Participant of the Inter -Disciplinar y Summer School, Information Environments:
Analysis and Design , August 2002, Zurich, Switzer land
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PUBLICATIONS
Overview
Year
Conference
Journal
Book
Book
Chapter
Workshop
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
Total
7
4
2
5
3
5
4
7
2
6
1
4
1
1
1
53
2
2
1
1
1
Demo/
Poster
1
1
1
1
Article
Tech
Report
1
1
2
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
7
1
2
13
1
5
1
4
Total
12
5
3
8
4
6
9
12
6
7
1
6
3
3
1
86
c i t at i o n s : 1 1 0 1 , h - i n d e x : 1 8 ( d at a b y G o o g l e S c h o l ar )
Journal Articles
1. Bruno Dumas, Beat Signer and Denis Lalanne, A Graphical Editor for the SMUIML
Multimodal User Interaction Description Language , Science of Computer Programming,
86, June 2014
2. Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norrie, Nadir Weibel and Adriana Ispas, Adv anced Authoring
of Paper-Dig ital Systems: Introducing Templates and Variable Content Elements for
Interactive Paper Publishing , Multimedia Tools and Applications , 70(2), May 2014
3. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, A Model and Architecture for Open Cross -Media
Annotatio n and Link Services , Information Systems , 36(3), Elsevier , May 2011
4. Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus and Moira C. Norrie, Interactive Paper as a Mobile
Client for a Multi-Channel Web Informatio n System , World Wide Web Jour nal (WWW),
10(4) Special Issue on Multi -Channel Adaptive Information Systems on the World
Wide Web, Springer, December 2007
5. Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus, Rudi Belotti, Corsin
Decurtins and Nadir Weibel , Context-Aware Platform for Mobile Data Management ,
Journal on Wireles s Networks (WINET), 13( 6), Springer , December 2007
6. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer , Information Server for Highly -Connected Cross -Media
Publishing , Information Sys tems, 30(7), Elsevier, November 2005
7. Corsin Decurtins, Moir a C. Norrie and Beat Signer , Putting the Gloss on Paper: A
Framework for Cross -Media Annotatio n, NRHM 2003, New Revie w of Hypermedia
and Multimedia, 9(1), 2003
Books and Book Chapters
8. Beat Signer, F undamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross -Media Information
Spaces, ISBN 978-3- 8370-2713-6, M ay 2008
(first published 2006 as Diss ETH No. 16218)
9. Paul Luff , Guy Adams, Wolfgang Bock, Adam Drazin, David M. Frohlich,
Christian Heath, Peter Herdman , Heather King, Nadja Linketscher, Rachel
Murphy, Moir a C. Norrie, Abigail Sellen, Beat Signer, Ella Tallyn and Emil Zeller ,
Augmented Paper: Develo ping Relationships between Digital Content and Paper , The
Disappearing Compu ter: Inter action Des ign, System Infr astructur es and
Applications for Smart Env ir onments, LNCS 4500, 2007
10. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer, Web-Based Integration o f Printed and Digital
Informatio n (extended version of DI Web 20 02 paper), Lectur e Notes in Computer
Science, LNCS 2590, Februar y 2003
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Peer Reviewed Conference and Workshop Papers
11. Reinout Roels and Beat Signer, MindXpres: An Extensible Content -driven Cross -Media
Presentation Platform , Pr oceedings of WISE 2014, 15th International Conference on
Web Information System Engineering, T hess aloniki, Greece, October , 2014
(acceptance rate: 26%)
12. Ahmed A.O. Tayeh and Beat Signer, Open Cross -Document Linking and Browsing based
on a Visual Plug -in Architecture , Proceedings of WISE 2014, 15th Inter national
Confer ence on Web Information System Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece,
October , 2014 (acceptance rate: 26%)
13. Sandr a Trullemans and Beat Signer, Towards a Conceptual Framework and Metamodel
for Context-Aware Perso nal Cross -Media Information Management Systems (short paper) ,
Proceedings of ER 2 014, 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling,
Atlanta, USA, October 2014 (acceptance rate: 26%)
14. Sandr a Trullemans and Beat Signer, From User Needs to Opportunities in Personal
Informatio n Management: A Case Study on Organisational Strategies in Cross-Media
Informatio n Spaces , Proceedings of DL 2 014, International Confer ence on Digital
Libraries, London, UK, September 2014 ( acceptance rate: 28%)
15. Reinout Roels and Beat Signer , A Unified Communicatio n Platform for Enriching and
Enhancing Presentations with Active Learning Components , Proceedings of ICALT 2014,
14th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Athens,
Greece, July 2014 (acceptance rate: 24%) ( best paper award )
16. Lode Hoste and Beat Signer , Criteria, Challenges and Opportunities for Gesture
Programming Lang uages , Proceedings of EGMI 2014, 1st International Workshop on
Engineer ing Gestures f or Multimodal Interfaces, Rome, Italy, June 2014
17. Bruno Dumas, Bram M oerman, Sandra Trullemans and Beat Signer , An Adv anced
User Interface for Exploring, Analysing and Browsing Digital Artwork Collections , Demo
Proceedings of AVI 2014, International Working Confer ence on Advanced Visual
Interfaces, Como, Italy, May 2014
18. Bruno Dumas, Bram M oerman, Sandra Trullemans and Be at Signer,
ArtVis: Combining Adv anced Visualisation and T angible Interaction for the Exploration,
Analysis and Browsing of Digital Artwork Collectio ns , Proceedings of AVI 2014,
International Wor king Confer ence on Advanced Visual Interface s, Como, Italy,
May 2014 (acceptance rate: 28%)
19. Lode Hoste and Beat Signer , Water Ball Z: An Augmented Fighting Game Using Water
as Tactile Feedback , Proceedings of TEI 2014, 8th International Conference on
Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Inter action , Munich, Germany, Februar y 2014
(acceptance rate: 27%)
20. Lode Hoste and Beat Signer , SpeeG2: A Speech - and Gesture-based Interface for
Efficient Controller -free T ext Entry , Proceedings of ICMI 2013, 15th International
Confer ence on Multimodal Interaction , Sydney, Australia, December 2013
(acceptance rate: 37%)
21. Reinout Roels and Beat Signer , An Extensible Presentation Tool for Flexible Human Informatio n Interaction , Demo Proceedings of HCI 2013, 27th BCS Conference on
Human Computer Inter action , London, United Kingdom, September 2013
22. Bruno Dumas, María Solórzano and Beat Signer , Design Guidelines for Adaptive
Multimodal Mo bile Input Solutio ns , Proceedings of MobileHCI 2013, 15th
International Conference on Human -Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices
and Services , Munich, Germany, August 2013 (acceptance rate: 22%)
23. Lode Hoste and Beat Signer , Expressive Control of Indirect Augmented Reality During
Live Music Performances , Proceedings of NIME 2013, 13th International Confer ence
on New Interf aces for Musical Expression, Daejeon, Korea Republ ic, May 2013
24. Lode Hoste, Brecht De Rooms and Beat Signer , Declarative Gesture Spotting Using
Inferred and Refined Control Points , ICPRAM 2013, International Confer ence on
Pattern R ecognition, B arcelona, Spain, February 2013 (acceptance rate: 24%)
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25. Bruno Dumas, Beat Signer and Denis Lalanne, Fusion in Multimodal Interactive
Systems: An HMM -Based Algorithm for User Induced Adaptation , EI CS 2012, 4th
International Conference on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems,
Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2012 (acceptance rate: 22%)
26. Lode Hoste, Bruno Dumas and Beat Signer , SpeeG: A Multimodal Speech - and
Gesture-based Text I nput Solutio n , AVI 2012, International Wor king Conference on
Advanced Visual Interf aces, Capr i Island, Italy, May 2012 (acceptance rate: 28%)
27. Bruno Dumas, Tim Broché , Lode Hoste and Beat Signer, ViDaX: An Interactive
Semantic Data Visualisation and Exploratio n Tool (Poster), AVI 2012, International
Working Confer ence on Advanced Visual Interfaces , Capri Island, Italy, May 2012
28. Lode Hoste, Bruno Dumas and Beat Signer , Mudra: A Unified Multimodal Interaction
Framework, ICMI 2011, 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction ,
Alicante, Spain, November 201 1 (acceptance rate: 39%)
29. Bruno Dumas, Beat Signer and Denis Lalanne , A Graphical UIDL Editor for
Multimodal I nteraction Design Based on SMUIML , UIDL 2011, Workshop on Software
Support for User Inter face Des cription Language, Lisbon, Portuga l,
September 2011
30. Elien Paret, William Van Woensel, Sven Casteleyn, Beat Signer and Olga De
Troyer, Efficient Query ing of Distributed RDF Sources in Mobile Settings based on a
Source Index Mo del , MobiWIS 2011, 8th International Conference on Mobile Web
Information Systems , Niagara Falls, Canada, September 2011 (acceptance rate: 36%)
( best paper award )
31. Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, An Extensible Digital Ink
Segmentation and Classificatio n Framework for Natural Notetaking , EICS 2011, ACM
SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Inter active Computing Systems , Pisa, Italy,
June 2011 (acceptance rate: 22%)
32. Elien Paret, William Van Woensel, Sven Casteleyn, Beat Signer and Olga De
Troyer, Efficient Mobile Querying of Distributed RDF Sources (Poster), ESWC 2011,
8th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion Gr eece, May 2011
33. Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norr ie, Herman Hofstetter , Hans -Christian
Jetter and Harald Reiterer , PaperSketch: A Paper -Digital Collaborative Remote
Sketching Tool, IUI 2011, International Confer ence on Intelligent Us er Interfaces,
Palo Alto, USA, F ebruary 2011
(acceptance rate: 44%)
34. Christophe Scholiers , Lode Hoste, Beat Signer and Wolfgang De Meuter, Midas: A
Declarative Multi -Touch I nteraction Framework , T EI 2011, 5th International
Confer ence on Tangible, Emb edded and Embodied Inter action , Funchal, Portugal,
Januar y 2011 (acceptance rate: 32%)
35. Beat Signer, What is Wrong with Digital Documents ? A Conceptual Model for Structural
Cross-Media Content Compositio n and Reuse , ER 2010, 29th International Confer ence
on Conceptual Modeling , Vancouver, Canada, November 2010 (acceptance rate: 20%)
36. Adriana Ispas, Nan Li, Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer, Paper-Digital Meeting
Support and Review , CollaborateCom 2010, 6th International Conference on
Collabor ative Computing, Chicago, USA, October 2010 (acceptance rate: 37%)
37. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, Interactive Paper: Past, Present and Future ,
Paper Comp 2010, 1st I nternational Workshop on Paper Computing, Copenhagen
Denmark, September 2010
38. Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, A Study of Incidental Notetaking to
Inform Digital Pen and Paper Solutions , HCI 2010, 24th BCS Conference on Human
Computer Inter action , Dundee, United Kingdom , September 2010
(acceptance rate: 42%)
39. Beat Signer, Alexandre de Spindler and Moir a C. Norrie, Collaborative
Ad-hoc Information Sharing in Cross -Media Information Environments , CoopIS 2009,
17th International Conference on Cooper ative Information Systems , Vilamoura ,
Portugal, November 2009 (acceptance rate: 20%)
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40. Stefania Leone, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Alexandre de Spindler, From
Static Methods to Role -Driven Service Invocatio n - A Metamodel for Active Content in
Object Databases , ER 2009, 28th International Confer ence on Conceptual Modeling,
Gramado, Brazil , November 2009 (acceptance rate: 19%)
41. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, An Architecture for Open Cross -Media Annotatio n
Services, WISE 2009, 10 th International Confer ence on Web Information Systems
Engineer ing, Poznan, Poland, October 2009 (acceptance rate: 23%)
42. Beat Signer, Alexandre de S pindler and Moir a C. Norrie, A Framework for Link
Sharing in Cooperative Cross -Media Information Spaces , 6th International Confer ence
on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineer ing, Luxembour g City,
Luxembour g, September 2009
43. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, Active Components as a Method for Coupling Data
and Services - A Database -Driven Application Dev elopment Process , I COODB 2009, 2 nd
International Conference on Object Databas es , Zurich, Switzerland, July 2009
44. Adriana Ispas, Be at Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, An Extensible Framework for
Personal Cross -Media Information Management , Workshop on Cross -Media
Information Analysis, Extraction an d Management, Koblenz, Germany,
December 2008
45. Elke I. Reuss, Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, PowerPoint Multimedia Presentatio ns
in Computer Science Education: What do Users Need? USAB 2008, 4th Symposium on
Usability & HCI for Education and Work, Gr az, Austria, November 2008
(acceptance rate: 8%) ( best paper award )
46. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, A Framework for Develo ping Pervasive Cross -Media
Applicatio ns based on Phy sical Hypermedia and Active Components , ICPCA 2008, 3rd
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications, Alexandr ia,
Egypt, October 2008
47. Moira C. Norrie, Bea t Signer and Nadir Weibel, Interactive Paper as a Reading
Medium in Digital Libraries , ECDL 2008, 12th European Conference on Resear ch
and Advanced Technology for Digi tal Librar ies, Aarhus, Denmar k,
September 2008 (acceptance rate: 29%)
48. Marcus Liwicki, Kin ga Schumacher, Andr eas Dengel, Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer
and Moir a C. Norr ie , Pen and Paper -based Interaction with the Semantic Desktop ,
Proceedings of DAS 2008, 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document
Analysis Systems, Nar a, Japan , September 2008
49. Marcus Liwicki, Kinga Schumacher, Andr eas Dengel, Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer
and Moir a C. Norr ie , Semantic eInk – Pen and Paper -based Interaction with the Semantic
Desktop, Demo Proceedings of DAS 20 08, 8th IAPR International Workshop on
Document Analysis Systems, Nara, Japan , September 2008
50. Nadir Weibel, Adriana Ispas, Beat Signer and Moira C. Norrie, Paper-Proof: A
Paper-Digital Proof -Editing System , CHI 2008 Interactivity Tr ack, Flor ence, Italy,
April 2008
51. Michael Springmann, Adriana Ispas, Heiko Schuldt , Moira C. Norrie and Beat
Signer, Towards Query by Sketch , Second DELOS Conference on Digital Librar ies,
Pisa, Italy, December 2007
52. Nadir Weibel, Beat Signer, Patrick Ponti and Moira C. Norrie, PaperProof: A Paper Digital Proof-Editing System , CoPADD 2007, 2nd International Workshop on
Collabor ating over Paper and Digital Document, London , United Kingdom,
November 2007
53. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie, As We May Link : A General Metamo del for
Hypermedia Systems , ER 2007, 26 th International Confer ence on Conc eptual
Modelling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2007 (acceptance rate: 22%)
54. Michael Grossniklaus, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Producing
Interactive Paper Documents based on Multi -Channel Content Publishing , AXMEDIS
2007, 3rd Internatio nal Confer ence on Automated Production of Cross Media
Content for Multi -channel Distribution, Bar celona, Spain, November 2007
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55. Beat Signer, Ueli Kurmann and Moir a C. Norr ie, iGesture: A General Gesture
Recognition Framework , I CDAR 2007, 9th International Conference on Document
Analysis and Recognition, Curitiba, Brazil, September 2007 (acceptance rate: 26%)
56. Nadir Weibel, Moir a C. Norrie and B eat Signer, A Model for Mapping between Printed
and Dig ital Document I nstances , DocEng 2007, ACM Symposium on Docume nt
Engineer ing, Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007 (acceptance rate: 39%)
57. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie , PaperPoint: A Paper -Based Presentation and
Interactive Paper Prototyping Tool , Proceedings of TEI 2007, First Inter national
Confer ence on Tangible and Emb edded Interaction, Baton Rouge, USA,
Februar y 2007 (acceptance rate: 54%)
58. Maristella Agosti, Stefano Beretti, Gert Brettlecker, Alberto del Bimbo, Nicola
Ferro, Norbert Fuhr, Daniel Keim, Claus -Peter Klas, Thomas Lidy, Moira C.
Norrie, Paola Ranaldi, Andreas Rauber, Hans - Jörg Schek, Tobias Schreck, Heiko
Schuldt, B eat Signer and Michael Springmann , DelosDLMS - the Integrated DELOS
Digital Library Managem ent System , DELOS Conference on Digital Libr aries, Pisa,
Italy, Febr uar y 2007
59. Michael Grossniklaus, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Putting
Location-Based Services on the Map , Proceedings of W2GIS 2006 , International
Symposium on Web and Wir eless Geogr aphical Information Systems, Hong Kong,
China, December 2006
60. Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, General Framework fo r the R apid
Development of Interactive Paper Applications , CoPADD 2006,
1st International Workshop on Collaborating over Paper and Digital Document,
Banff, Canada, November 2006
61. Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Nadir Weibel, Print-n-Link: Weaving the Paper
Web, Proceedings of DocEng 2006, ACM Symposium on Document Engineer ing,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2006 (acceptance rate: 33%)
62. Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norrie, Michael Grossniklaus, Rudi Belotti, Corsin
Decurtins and Nadir Weibel, Paper-Based Mobile Access to Databases , Demo
Proceedings of SIGMOD 2006, ACM International Conference on Management of
Data, Chicago, USA, June 2006
63. Alexandr e de Spindler, Moira C. Norrie, Michael Grossniklaus and Beat Signer ,
Spatio-Temporal Proximity as a Basis for Collaborative Filtering in Mobile Environments ,
Proceedings of UMICS 2006, Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Infor mation and
Collabor ation Systems, CAiSE 2006, 18th International Conference on Advanced
Information Systems Engineering, Luxembour g, Gr and Duchy of Luxembourg,
June 2006
64. Axel Vogelsang and Beat Signer , The Lost Cosmonaut: An Interactive Narrative
Environment on Basis of Digitally Enhanced Paper , Proceedings of International
Confer ence on Virtual Storytelling, Strasbourg, France , December 2005
65. Moira C. Norrie, Alexios Palinginis and Beat Signer , Content Publishing Framework
for Interactive Paper Documents , Proceedings of DocEng 2005, ACM Sy mposium on
Document Engineer ing, Bristol, United Kingdom, November 2005
(acceptance rate: 33%)
66. Rudi Belotti, Corsin Decurtins, Moir a C. Nor rie, B eat Signer and Ljiljana Vukelja ,
Experimental Platform fo r Mobile Information Systems , Proceedings of MobiCom 2005,
11th Annual International Confer ence on Mobile Computing and Networking,
Cologne, Germany , August 2005 (acceptance rate: 10%)
67. Ella Tallyn, David M. Frohlich, Nadja Linketscher, B eat Signer and Guy Adam s,
Using Paper to Support C ollaboration in Educat ional Activities , Proceedings of CSCL
2005, Confer ence on Computer Su pported Collabor ative Learning, T aipei, Taiwan,
May 2005 (acceptance rate: 30%)
68. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie , A Framework for Cross -Media Information
Management, Proceedings of EuroIMS A 2005, I nternational Confer ence on Internet
and Multimedia Systems and Applications, Grindelwald, Switzer land,
Februar y 2005
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69. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer , Overlaying Paper Maps with Digital Information
Services for To urists , Proceedings of ENT ER 2005, 12th International Confer ence
on Information T echnology and Travel & Tourism, Innsbruck, Austria,
Januar y 2005
70. Paul Luff , Christian Heath, Moira C. Norrie, B eat Signer and Peter Herdman , Only
Touching the Surface: Creating Affinities between Digital Conten t and Paper , Proceedings
of CSCW 2004, Conf erence on Compu ter Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago,
USA, November 2004 (acceptance rate: 30%)
71. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer , Switching over to Paper: A New Web Channel ,
Proceedings of WISE 2003, 4th Internat ional Confer ence on Web I nformation
Systems Engineering, R ome, Italy, December 2003 (acceptance rate: 25%)
72. Corsin Decurtins, Moir a C. Norrie and Beat Signer , Digital Annotation of Printed
Documents , Proceedings of CIKM 2003, 12th I nternational Confer ence on
Information and Knowledge Management, New Orleans, USA, November 2003
73. Beat Signer and Moir a C. Norrie , Multi-Layered Cross -Media Linking (short paper),
Proceedings of Hypertext 2003, 14th ACM Conferen ce on Hypertext and
Hypermedia, Nottingham, United Ki ngdom, August 2003
74. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer , Issues o f Information Semantics and Granularity in
Cross-Media Publishing , Proceedings of CAiSE 20 03, Confer ence on Advanced
Information Systems Engineering, Klagenfurt/Velden, Austria, June 2003
(acceptance rate: 21%)
75. Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norrie, Peter Geissbuehler and Daniel Heiniger , Telepho ne
Interface for Avalanche Warnings based o n Information Server for Adaptable Content
Delivery (short paper) , Proceedings of Pervasive 2002, International Confer ence on
Pervasive Computing, Zurich, Switzer land, August 2002
76. Moira C. Norrie and B eat Signer , Web-Based Integration o f Printed and Digital
Informatio n, Proceedings of DIWeb 2002, 2nd Workshop on Data Integration over
the Web, Toronto, Canada, May 2002
77. Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norrie, Peter Geissbuehler and Daniel Heiniger , Aural
Interfaces to Databases based on VoiceXML , Proceedings of VDB6, 6th IFIP
Workshop on Visual Database Systems, Brisbane, Austr alia, May 2002
78. Adrian Kobler, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Michael Gr ossniklaus , OMS J ava:
Providing Information, Storage and Access Abstractions in an Object -Oriented Framework ,
Proceedings of OOIS 2001, 7th International Confer ence on Object - Oriented
Information Systems , Calgar y, Canada, Augus t 2001
79. Beat Signer, Michael Grossniklaus and Moira C. Norrie , Jav a Framewo rk for
Database-Centric Web Engineering , Proceedings of WebE 2001, 4th Wor kshop on
Web Engineering (in conjunction with 10th I nternational World Wide Web
Confer ence), Hong Kong, May 2001
80. Beat Signer, Antonia Erni and Moira C. Norrie , A Personal Assistant for Web
Database Caching , Proceedings of CAiSE 2000, 12th International Conference on
Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2000
(acceptance rate: 25%)
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Technical Report s
81. Beat Signer, Alexandre de Spindler and Moir a C. Norrie, A Peer-to-Peer-based
Distributed Link Serv ice Architecture , Technical Report ETH Zurich, T R636,
August 2009
82. Beat Signer, Moir a C. Norrie and Ueli Kurmann, iGesture: A Java Framework for the
Development and Deployment of Stroke -Based Online Gesture Recognition Algorithms ,
Technical Report ETH Zurich, TR561, September 2007
83. Beat Signer, iPaper Tutorial: A Developer's Guide for the Interactive Paper Platform ,
ETH Zurich, 2006
84. David M. Frohlich, Ella Tallyn, Nadja Linkets cher, Beat Signer and Guy Adams ,
Reading Augmented Paper: Children's Experiences from a Simulation Study , Technical
Report HP Labs, HPL -2001- 308, November 2001
Articles
85. Florian Echtler, Dietrich Kammer, Davy Vanacken, Lode Hoste and Beat Signer ,
Engineering Gestures for Multimodal User Interfaces , Proceedings of EICS 2014,
6th International Conf erence on Engineer ing Interactive Computing Systems,
Rome, Italy, June, 2014
86. Beat Signer, Papier als int eraktives mobiles Medium , E-Learning Dossier 03/2008,
June 2008
Theses
 Beat Signer, F undamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross -Media Information
Spaces, Dissertation ETH No. 16218. Zurich ,
Switzerland , 2006
 Beat Signer, GOMES - An Object-Oriented GUI for the Object Model Multi -User
Extended Filesystem , Diploma Thesis, ETH Zur ich, Switzer land, July 1999
 Beat Signer, Perso nal A ssistant for Internet OMS , Semester Project, ET H Zurich,
Switzerland, Mar ch 1999
Awards
 Best Paper Award, ICALT 2014, 14th International Conference on Advanced
Learning Technologies, Athens , Greece, July 2014
 Best Paper Award, MobiWIS 2011, 8th International Conference on Mobile Web
Information Systems , Niagara Falls, Canada, September 2011
 Best Paper Award, USAB 2008, 4th Symposium on Usability & HCI for Education
and Work, Graz, Austria, November 2008
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SOFTWARE
eXtensible Information Management Architecture (XIMA)
Platform for universal client acces s to databases.
[http://www.beatsigner.com/xima.html ]
iServer framework
Cross-media information server supporting the integr ation of physical and digital
content bas ed on a r es ource plug -in mechanis m.
[http://www.beatsigner.com/is erver .html]
iPaper framework
Interactive paper fr amework including a resource plug - in for iServer as well as various
authoring tools and applications . [ http://www.beatsigner.com/ipaper .html]
PaperPoint
A paper-based pr esentation and lecture r ecording tool for PowerPoint .
[http://www.beatsigner.com/paperPoint .html ]
iGesture
A gener al gestur e recognition fr amework. Available under an Apache 2 open source
license from [www.igesture.org] ( mor e than 16 000 downloads ).
Gesture Controller (geco)
An application for mapping mouse or pen -bas ed gestures to short key presses and
system commands . Geco uses iGesture as its gesture r ecognition engine.
[www.igestur e.org]
sigtec library
Various Java utilities including for example a caching fr amework, an XML RPC
implementation, HTTP tools and digital ink utilities .
[http://maven.globis .ethz. ch/projects/sigtec/apidocs/]
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