[Ict4d] Free Mobile sensing in android course being offered for 2 days in 5-9 November

[David Johnson]

Hi all

We have filled 8 of the 20 spaces available - so still plenty of space
left if anybody wants to attend

Please note the finalised times, dates and  venue

Venue: Gary Marsden board room, Level 3, Computer Science Building
Day 1: Wed 7 Nov 9h00 - 12h00
Day 2: Fri 9 Nov 9h00 - 12h00

Regards

David


-- 
Dr David Johnson
Director, Ammbr Research Labs South Africa
Part of the AmmbrTech Group
http://www.ammbrtech.com

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
ICT4D, Computer Science Department
University of Cape Town
https://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~djohnson/
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:17 PM David Johnson
<david.lloyd.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Veljko Pejovic from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia will be visiting
> UCT from 1 to 15 November  has offered to do a mobile sensing android
> course over 2 days. If you are interested in doing the course let me
> know. We will pin down 2 mornings or afternoons between 5 and 9
> November once I've confirmed venues and best slots
>
> Let me know if you are interested in attending (and fill in survey at
> the end) or please forward onto students / lists who may be interested
> in attending
>
> Here is a description of the course:
>
> Sensors embedded in our phones, such as GPS, accelerometers,
> microphones, cameras, and others, can be harnessed for designing
> applications that are aware of their surroundings and better aligned
> with their users' intentions.
>
> This course targeting beginner to intermediate Android programmers
> aims to equip you with the tools needed for bringing context awareness
> to mobile phones. We will cover the basics of building Android
> applications and focus on issues that are crucial for efficient
> sensing. We will see how to get information from different sensors,
> such as accelerometer and location sensors. We will then look into the
> ways of doing sensing periodically and in an energy efficient way.
> Finally, we will look into tools that enable us to mine the data
> obtained through sensing.
>
> The course is divided in two three-hour lectures:
>
> - Session 1 - Android programming basics: Android Framework,
> Application structure, Manifest file, Application look and feel,
> Android Activity, Task back stack, Intents, Concurrency via
> AsyncTasks, Services.
> - Session 2 - Android sensing implementation: Sensor sampling, Best
> practices in sensing, Location and acceleration sampling, Orange data
> mining suite.
>
> IMPORTANT: The course requires that each student has the Android Studio
> environment installed on his/her laptop and that each student has an
> Android mobile phone and data USB cable. Due to the mini course’s
> hands-on nature the participation is limited to 20 students.
>
> ENTRY QUESTIONNAIRE: To better tailor the course to your needs, please
> fill in the following survey:
>
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmpkHhZKopjnEHqRNB46faqNfZNLKlnTWAjYirEOBHBX81OA/viewform?usp=sf_link
>
>
>
> Bio: Dr Veljko Pejovic is an assistant professor at the Faculty of
> Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
> He completed his PhD in computer science at the University of California,
> Santa Barbara, USA in 2012 on the topic of resource-efficient wireless
> communication for rural areas. From 2012 to 2014 Dr Pejovic worked as
> a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK in the area of
> mobile computing and sensing. His work on modelling users’ movement
> and communication behaviour from mobile call records has won the 2013
> Orange Data for Development Challenge, while his work on on developing
> machine learning models of interruptibility based on sensor data
> resulted in the best paper nomination at the 2014 ACM UbiComp
> conference. He is interested in mobile sensing, particularly for human
> behaviour inference, and wireless and resource-efficient mobile
> computing.
>
>
> Regards
> David
>
> --
> Dr David Johnson
> Director, Ammbr Research Labs South Africa
> Part of the AmmbrTech Group
> http://www.ammbrtech.com
>
> Adjunct Senior Lecturer
> ICT4D, Computer Science Department
> University of Cape Town
> https://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~djohnson/