Tim Sohn
Research Scientist
Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto
Tim is a research scientist at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto on the IDEA team. He is currently focused on building ubiquitous computing systems that help create a better mobile experience for users. Tim has been working in the mobile space since 2003. During his graduate school career he helped create Place Lab, one of the first GSM-based positioning systems He completed his B.S. at the University of California, Berkeley in EECS and his M.S. and Ph.D in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego. Contact Tim at tim dot sohn at nokia dot com.
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Press: San Jose Mercury News (4/27/2008): What's the next big thing for the wireless industry? |
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K.A. Li, T. Sohn, S. Huang, and W.G. Griswold. PeopleTones: A System for Delivering Buddy Proximity Cues on Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (Mobisys). Breckenridge, Colorado, 2008. T. Sohn, K.A. Li, J. Hollan, and W.G. Griswold. A Diary Study of Mobile Information Needs. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI). Florence, Italy, 2008. C. C. Tsai, G. Lee, F. Raab, G. J. Norman, T. Sohn, W.G. Griswold, and K. Patrick. Usability and Feasibility of PmEB: A Mobile Phone Application for Monitoring Real Time Caloric Balance In Proceedings International Conference Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare. Innsbruck, Austria, 2006. T. Sohn, A. Varshavsky, A. LaMarca, M.Y. Chen, T. Choudhury, I. Smith, S. Consolvo, J. Hightower, W.G. Griswold, E. de Lara. Mobility Detection Using Everyday GSM Traces. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Irvine, California, pp. 212-224, 2006. M.Y. Chen, T. Sohn, D. Chmelev, D. Haehnel, J. Hightower, J. Hughes, A. LaMarca, F. Potter, I. Smith, A. Varshavsky. Practical Metropolitan-Scale Positioning for GSM Phones. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Irvine, California, 2006. T. Sohn, W.G. Griswold, J. Scott, A. LaMarca, Y. Chawathe, I. Smith, M.Y. Chen. Experiences with Place Lab: an Open Source Toolkit for Location-Aware Computing. In Proceedings of ICSE 2006, Experience Track. A.K. Dey, T. Sohn, S. Streng, J. Kodama. iCAP: Interactive Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications. In Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Dublin, Ireland, 2006. A. Varshavsky, M. Chen, E. de Lara, J. Froehlich, D. Haehnal, J. Hightower, A. LaMarca, F. Potter, T. Sohn, K. Tang, I. Smith. Are GSM phones THE solution for Localization? In Proceedings of WMCSA 2006. T. Sohn, K.A. Li, G. Lee, I. Smith, J. Scott, W.G. Griswold. Place-Its: A Study of Location-Based Reminders on Mobile Phones. In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2005). Tokyo, Japan, pp. 232-250 2005. G. Iachello, I. Smith, S. Consolvo, G.D. Abowd, J. Hughes, J. Howard, F. Potter, J. Scott, T. Sohn, J. Hightower, A. LaMarca. Control, Deception, and Communication: Evaluating the Deployment of a Location-Enhanced Messaging Service. In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp). Tokyo, Japan, pp. 213-231 2005. I. Smith, S. Consolvo, A. LaMarca, J. Hightower, J. Scott, T. Sohn, J. Hughes, G. Iachello, G.D. Abowd. Social Disclosure of Place: From Location Technology to Communication Practice. In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive). Munich, Germany, pp. 134-151 2005. A. LaMarca, Y. Chawathe, S. Consolvo, J. Hightower, I. Smith, J. Scott, T. Sohn, J. Howard, J. Hughes, F. Potter, J. Tabert, P. Powledge, G. Borriello, B. Schilit. Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild. In Proceedings of Third International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive). Munich, Germany, pp. 116-133 2005. S.J. Waterson, J.I. Hong, T. Sohn, J. Heer, T. Matthews, J.A. Landay. What Did They Do? Understanding Clickstreams with the Webquilt Visualization System. In the Proceedings of Advanced Visual Interfaces: AVI 2002. Trento, Italy. pp. 94-102, 2002. |
