Sebastian Feuerstack @ Technische Universität Berlin

Sebastian Feuerstack is currently working on his Ph.D. thesis in the area of model-based user interfaces at the Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB), where he received his computer science diploma. The subject of his diploma thesis was An Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Access in Distributed Systems, which he has written during a visit of the Deutsche Telekom T-Nova North America, California. His current research interests include generation of model-based user interfaces and methodologies for developing interactive applications.

He is currently involved as a Project Manager in the Service Centric Home Project (Sercho) that has been selected as one of eleven winning projects by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology from over 140 project proposals that have been submitted. The Sercho project is supported by the next generation media programme focusing on the sector of new technologies and ubiquitous computing.

After that he successfully proposed the Seamless Home Services project and lead a small team of researchers and graduate students to develop services that can be accessed in intelligent home environment. Results include a voice-enabled PVR, an intelligent and personalized news-paper service and a home automation service all tightly integrated and accessible via voice and various end-devices to form a home portal. The Seamless Home Services Project has been supported T-Com and T-Systems business parts of the Deutsche Telekom AG. During working on smart services targeted to home environments he proposed the Video Follows project, which implements a VoIP communication scenario enabling seamless media hand-overs between various typical entertainment devices like IP-enabled TVs and radios during a video-phone call following the talking user through his home.