Title: Decentralize!

Abstract:

Our current mobile and cloud ecosystem is heavily dependent on a few large corporations, thereby limiting our digital self-determination and eroding our privacy. I am looking for new ways to enable seamless interaction with people and services without being dependent on any central infrastructure.

Bio:

Florian Echtler is an associate professor in the Human-Centered Computing Section at Aalborg University. He received his PhD from TUM in Munich in 2009, and has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Siemens Corporate Technology and as assistant professor at University of Regensburg and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His research focuses on usable decentralized systems, peer-to-peer communication, and on employing these paradigms with novel forms of interaction such as tangibles, mobiles and wearables, or interactive surfaces.

Affiliation: Aalborg University

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-echtler-83184618/

Mastodon: https://hci.social/@floe

Email: floech@cs.aau.dk