Kari Rye Schougaard holds a PhD in Computer Science and a BA in philosophy. She is currently employed as a postdoc on the Galileo Project. She partakes in the OOSS research group at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Her primary area of interest is application developer support through middleware or platform solutions. She is working with middleware for pervasive and mobile computing, especially the positioning aspects and rendering of positions in understandable location models. With collegues she has coined the term of middleware support for seamful development, aiming for a middleware that exposes the seams that are usually hidden in the strive for seamless support of pervasive computing. She has also been working with with software architecture in practice.

Contact

You can reach Kari at work:

Hopper-121, IT-parken Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 8942 5665
E-mail: kari@cs.au.dk

Or at home:

Hejrevej 3, 8382 Hinnerup, Denmark
Cell-phone: +45 41291627
E-mail: kari.schougaard@gmail.com

Kari changed her name

Back in 2004 Kari changed her name from Kari Sofie Fogh Schougaard to Kari Rye Schougaard Nørgaard in connection with her wedding. To avoid confusion and Danish letters she publishes under Kari Rye Schougaard

Developer Support in Pervasive Computing

Updated: December 5th, 2010

Pervasive computing is the ongoing development towards small computers that are present throughout our environment and are connected to each other. Examples of computers in our environment include sensors, actuators and processors in refrigerators, cars, and clothing as well as smart phones, PDAs, portable computers and PCs. An important distinction between traditional and pervasive computing is that embedded computers are carried around in the environment and are supposed to be able to avail themselves of currently present resources.

In pervasive computing location is an important concept. In order to make devices able to interact with other devices in its environment and to adjust their behaviour to the context, location must be represented in the applications of the devices. Kari works on representing the positioning process and locations in relation to location models in an understandable way. The focus here is understandability and empowerment of the application developer, who uses a middleware or platform for pervasive computing. Kari works on combining transparency and openness in a translucent approach to middleware and platforms. Support of the theories is achieved by using an experimental approach.

Curriculum Vitae

Updated: December 5th, 2010

Since January 2008 Kari has been employed as a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University on the Galileo Project. From August 2007 to January 2008 she was emloyed at the same place on the SA@Work project.

She has received the following degrees: BA in Philosophy 2000, BSc in Computer Science 2002, MSc Computer Science 2004, PhD in Computer Science in 2007, all from the Aarhus University.

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Publications

Updated: December 5'th, 2010
For recent publications please see Publications

PhD Thesis

Kari Rye Schougaard, ``Programming with location: from Conceptualization to Language Design'', 2007, PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Conference papers (Peer reviewed)

Langdal, J.L., Schougaard, K.R., Kjærgaard, M.B., Toftkjær, T. 2010, 'PerPos: a Translucent Positioning Middleware Supporting Adaptation of Internal Positioning Processes', in Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2010), Springer 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16955-7_12
Blunck, H., Godsk, T., Grønbæk, K., Kjærgaard, M.B., Jensen, J.L., Scharling, T., Schougaard, K.R., Toftkjær, T. 2010, 'PerPos: A Platform Providing Cloud Services for Pervasive Positioning', in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research and Application, Association for Computing Machinery, Article no.: 11., ACM 2010, DOI: 10.1145/1823854.1823869
Christensen, H.B., Hansen, K.M., Schougaard, K.R. 2009, 'An Empirical Study of Software Architects' Concerns', in Proceedings of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 09), IEEE Press, pp. 111-118. DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2009.12
Schougaard, K.R., Hansen, K.M., Christensen, H.B. 2008, 'SA@Work - A Field Study of Software Architecture and Software Quality at Work', in 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC 2008, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 411-418. IEEE 2008. DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2008.41
Henrik B. Christensen, Klaus M. Hansen, Kari R. Schougaard, 2008, "Ready! Set! Go! An Action Research Agenda for Software Architecture", in Proceedings of Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) 2008. IEEE 2008. DOI: 10.1109/WICSA.2008.36
Kjeld H. Mortensen, Kari R. Schougaard, and Ulrik P. Schultz, "Distance-Based Access Modifiers Applied to Safety in Home Networks", in Proceedings of EUSAI'2004, Springer 2004.

Workshop and Position Papers (Peer reviewed or part of a PhD exam)

Langdal, J., Kjærgaard, M.B., Toftkjær, T., Schougaard, K.R. 2010, 'Exposing Position Uncertainty in Middleware', in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC 2010), ACM 2010.
Schougaard, K.R., Langdal, J. 2010, ' Model-based Translucency in Middleware: Supporting Seamful Development', in Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive Mobile and Embedded Computing (M-MPAC 2010), ACM 2010
Gjerulfsen, Tony, Jesper Wolff Olsen and Kari Rye Schougaard: Computers Are Not Stupid Just Different: An Investigative Approach to Pervasive Computing, Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark, del af Jesper Wolff Olsen, Material Dispositions: a hybrid and interwoven design perspective on making computing palpable, Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010. Under publikation
Kari S. F. Schougaard, "Location Awareness in Programming Languages and Middleware", 2004, Report for midway evaluation of PhD study at Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Kari S. F. Schougaard and Ulrik P. Schultz, "Supporting Activity-Based Computing using Dynamically (De)Composable Mobile Applications", Proceedings of First International Workshop on Computer Support for Human Tasks and Activities, April 20, 2004, Pervasive 2004, Vienna, Austria.
Kari S. F. Schougaard: "Virtual Distances Used for Optimization of Applications in the Pervasive Computing Domain", in Alois Ferscha, Horst Hortner and Gabriele Kotsis (eds.): "Advances in Pervasive Computing", Austrian Computer Society, 2004.
Kari Schougaard and Ulrik P. Schultz: "POMP - Pervasive Object Model Project", ECOOP 2003 Workshop on Resource Aware Computing.

Technical Reports

Christensen, H.B., Schougaard, K.R., Hansen, K.M. 2008, Phase One: Fieldwork Autumn 2007, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University
Kari Rye Schougaard: ``Vehicular Mobility Prediction by Bayesian Networks'', Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, DAIMI PB - 582, 2007.
Kjeld H. Mortensen, Kari S. F. Schougaard, and Ulrik P. Schultz: "A Programming Language Approach to Safety in Home Networks", Center for Pervasive Computing Publications, 2003, CfPC-2003-PB-53.

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