Speaker:
Prof. Janne Lindqvist
WINLAB, Rutgers University, NJ

Time: 3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM, April 25^th (Wednesday), 2012

Location: Babbio Center, Room 203

ABSTRACT
Many location-sharing systems have been developed over the past 20 years, but only recently have these systems started to be adopted by consumers. One of the major successes so far in terms of user adoption is Foursquare, which reports having over 15 million users as of January 2012. We will discuss our user studies and surprising uses of Foursquare. Furthermore, in this talk, we will discuss our work on privacy protection for users of location-based services, and how location and contextual information can be used to nudge people not to use their mobile phones while driving.

BIOGRAPHY
Janne Lindqvist is an Assistant Research Professor at WINLAB, Rutgers University. Prior to WINLAB, Janne was a post-doc with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Janne received his M.Sc. degree in 2005, and D.Sc. degree in 2009, both in Computer Science and Engineering from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. He works at the intersection of mobile computing, systems security and human-computer interaction. Before joining the academia, Janne co-founded a wireless networks company, Radionet, which was represented in 24 countries before being sold to Florida-based Airspan Networks in 2005.

For more information please contact:

Professor Rajarathnam Chandramouli
Hattrick Chair Professor (RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cognitive radio networks, wireless security, steganography, steganalysis, computational biology)
Burchard Building
Room 315
Phone: 201.216.8642
Fax: 201.216.8246
rchandr1@stevens.edu

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