October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Speakers: Biography

Speaker: Marek Hatala

 

Marek Hatala

250 - 13450 102nd Avenue
Surrey BC
V3T 2W1 Canada
http://www.sfu.ca

Dr. Marek Hatala is Associate Professor at the School Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and a director of the Laboratory for Ontological Research. Dr. Hatala received his MSc in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the Technical University of Kosice. His primary interests lie in areas of knowledge representation, ontologies and the semantic Web, user modeling, intelligent information retrieval, organizational learning and eLearning. His current research looks at how semantic technologies can be applied to achieve interoperability in highly distributed and heterogeneous environments, what the social and technical aspects of building a distributed trust infrastructures are, and what role user and user group modeling can play in interactive and ubiquitous environments. Dr. Hatala’s research has been funded by NSERC, SSHRC, Canarie, Canadian Heritage, the A.W.Mellon Foundation, as well as by industry.

Marek will present Interaction models and adaptive approaches for a museum guide for families. [Paper]