Julia Seiter

Julia studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. In 2008 she absolved an internship at Continental Automotive in Penang, Malaysia. During her studies she worked as teacher assistant in higher mathematics and linear electric networks and was a research assistant at the department of theoretical electrical engeneering and system optimization. In 2011 she completed her studies with a master thesis on the topic 'GPS integration for a pedestrian navigation system in urban environment'. Julia joined the Wearable Computing Group in June 2011

Research interests

• pattern recognition
• signal processing and sensor fusion
• health care

Research Projects

iCareNet

Context awareness has the potential to revolutionise the way people interact with information technology. Whereas conventional computers merely interpret explicit user input, context-aware systems analyse and automatically respond upon users’ behaviour and situation he/she is in. This enables electronic systems to assist users in situations in which the use of conventional computers and mobile devices is out of question. Research on context awareness has continued to intensify in the last decade due to the availability of cheap sensing technologies and mobile systems. Still, building reliable context-aware systems that can deal with complex real-life situations and environments remains an open research challenge and requires a multi-disciplinary effort.

iCareNet will focus on the areas of healthcare, wellness, and assisted living (HWA) applications and is expected to make a decisive contribution towards solutions, leveraged through an interdisciplinary perspective ranging from sensing and sensor integration, to human-computer interaction and social factors involved in the deployment of context-aware applications. Robust and scalable system architectures and design methodologies are the principal objective of all iCareNet efforts.

iCareNet unites efforts of an interdisciplinary network of leading European research groups and a strong industrial and clinical participation. Currently the network comprises 11 full partners and 13 associate partners from several countries including Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, Israel, and the Netherlands.