CV - Information Management - ETH ZÃ¼rich

Curriculum Vitae 

since 10/2005 

06/2010‐07/2010 

PERSONAL INFORMATION 

Name: 

Florian Michahelles 

Address (private): Trichtenhausenstrasse 122 

8053 Zurich, Switzerland 

Phone (private, mobile, office): +41 44 381 7167, +41 78 737 4568, +41 44 632 7477 

E‐Mail: 

fmichahelles@ethz.ch 

WWW: 

autoidlabs.ch, florian‐michahelles.blogspot.com 

HIGHLIGHTS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>>10 years of international experience in contracted research 

>100 peer‐reviewed articles, 1322 citations, H‐index of 19 (google scholar) 

expertise on M2M, Mobile Apps, Social Media and Internet of Things 

Trained computer scientist with business addiction 

Co‐founder of the 42matters AG, providing mobile app recommendations 

Acquisition, negotiations, budgeting (managed a yearly budget >1 m CHF) 

Leadership of teams in Europe, Japan, China, Korea, and USA 

Organization of international conferences (e.g. IOT2008‐2012, MUM2012) 

Renown keynote/invited speaker and panel moderator 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

Information Management, ETH Zürich 

- Lecturer and Deputy Director at the chair of Information Management 

of Prof. Dr. Elgar Fleisch (ETH Zürich/ Univ. St. Gallen) 

- Leader of own research group with five PhD students 

- Associate director of the Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich and global 

coordinator of the international Auto‐ID Lab network (MIT, Cambridge 

Univ., KAIST, Fudan Univ., Keio Univ., Univ. of Adelaide) 

- Responsibilities: Research, mentoring of PhD’s, teaching, financials 

- Self‐dependent project acquisition: EU‐Projects, industry funding 

- Deputy budget officer of the chair, approx. 1 Mio. CHF/annum 

Senior Visiting Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC 

- Visiting researcher at Prof. Jun Murai, Keio University, Japan 

- Program chair of the IOT 2010 Conference (www.iot2010.org) 

01/2005‐09/2005 Paternity leave 

05/2001 ‐ 12/2004 Perceptual Computing and Computer Vision, ETH Zürich 

- Research assistant at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele 

- EU‐financed Smart‐Its Project, ETH‐financed Poly‐Project 

“Miniaturized Wearable Computing: Technology and Applications” 

- Supervision of lectures and mentoring of diploma students 

11/1999‐01/2000 

11/1998‐02/1999 

11/1997‐02/1998 

Student Research Assistant (Studentische Hilfskraft), LMU Munich 

Teaching assistant (tutor) for the course „machine and systems 

programming“. 

EDUCATION 

05/2001 ‐ 12/2004 Doctoral studies, ETH Zurich 

- Promotion as Dr. sc. techn. in Computer Science 

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CV, Feb 1, 2013 

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- Theme of the dissertation: “Innovative Application Development for 

Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing” 

- Referee: Prof. Bernt Schiele, Co‐Referee: Prof. Friedemann Mattern 

11/1995 ‐ 03/2001 Diploma studies, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐University Munich and MIT 

- Diploma degree in Computer Science, Psychology (minor) and 

Management at the Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München (LMU) 

- Sloan Visiting Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, 

Cambridge/Massachusetts (Stephan Schrader Scholarship of Center for 

Digital Technology and Management, CDTM), Spring Term 2000 

- Internships at myAlert.com (Madrid/Spain), Universidade São 

Francisco (Itatiba/Brazil), and at the Icelandic Civil Aviation 

Administration (Reykjavík/Island). 

- Graduate of Center for Digital Techn. and Mgmnt (CDTM), 2001 

- Diploma thesis „Designing an Architecture for Context‐Aware Service 

Selection and Execution”, at Siemens Corporate Technology Munich, 

Prof. Linnhoff‐Popien (LMU) and Prof. Brügge (TUM) 

FUNDING PROJECTS 

- SNSF Nano‐Terra Project (100kCHF, transferable), 10/2012‐10/2014 

- Schnäggfinder (100kCHF, transferable), 09/2012‐04/2013, Blattwerk AG. 

- GS1 Strategy Project, 15kEUR, 10/2011‐03/2012 

- Polish‐Swiss Research Framework / 20 kCHF 

- Valora AG, 167 kCHF , 12/2009 – 12/2010 

- BMW Forschung & Technik, 20 kCHF , 01/2007 – 12/2007 

- Nokia Research , 400k CHF , 01/2006 – 12/2007 

- EU IP Smart Products, 438kEUR, 02/2009 – 01/2012 

- Auto‐ID Labs, 200 kUSD/year (with Fleisch/Sarma (MIT)) 

- EU STREP StoP / 495 kEUR , 06/2006 – 07/2009 (with Thiesse/Fleisch) 

- EU IP Bridge, 537 kEUR, 06/2006 – 07/2009 (with Thiesse/Fleisch) 

PUBLICATIONS AND INVENTIONS 

- >10 peer‐reviewed articles published in journals and magazines 

- >90 peer‐reviewed publications at int. conferences and workshops 

- 2 patents 

- >40 scientific presentations, >40 invited talks since 2001 

- ranked 2 nd for W3 professor position at University of Passau 

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

- Global Research Coordinator of the Auto‐ID Labs network 

- Co‐founder of the conference series „Internet of Things“ 

- Chair/Co‐Chair of international workshops and conferences (e.g. 

PTA07/PERTEC08/CIOT10/CAIA10/IOT12/MUM12/NFC13) 

- Member of Program committees international conferences 

- Professional Trainer: certified >100 “RFID Management Expert”’s 

- Co‐Founder of 42matters AG (AppAware.org) 

08/1994‐10/1995 COMMUNITY SERVICE, CARITAS PLEINFELD 

- Mobile social service in home care for the elderly 

- Independent care of geriatric patients as an assistant nurse 

LANGUAGES / INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE 

- German: mother tongue, English: fluent 

- French, Portuguese, Russian, Icelandic: basic knowledge 

- Study/work stays in each of the following countries: Germany, Iceland, 

Brazil, USA, Japan 

Zurich, February 6, 2013 

Florian Michahelles, Trichtenhausenstrasse 122, 8053 Zürich, Switzerland 

fmichahelles@ethz.ch


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Professional Skills 

Professional Skilled in strategy‐, process‐ and IT‐consulting 

Experienced program and project manager 

Renown expert for M2M, RFID, barcode, master data, mobile apps, social media, 

sensors, Internet of Things 

IT architecture, IT governance, business process reengineering 

Lecuter at university, teacher for professional qualification in RFID 

Domain knowledge: telecommunications (Nokia), retail (Valora, Blattwerk 

Convenience Food AG), start‐ups (42matters AG), medical/first‐aid (Kinderspital 

Ostschweiz, REGA), product master data(GS1) 

Organization of international conferences 

Methods Project acquisition, kick‐starting topic leadership, development roadmaps 

Service & supply‐chain management 

Project‐, program‐ and portfolio‐management 

Moderation and presentation techniques 

Business strategy development, founding of 42matters AG 

IT Programming languages: Java, C, PIC C (HiTech), SQL, HTML, XML 

Tools: Eclipse, Eagle, MS office standard software 

Databases: MySQL, Oracle RDBMS 

Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android, iOS 

Software‐Engineering: Extreme Programming, Feature Driven Development, 

SCRUM 

Social skills Inter‐cultural competences of leading international projects, conferences and 

workshops in Europa, Japan, China, Korea und USA 

Instinct for people and situations 

Open to criticism and suggestions 

Leadership Line executive skills 

Leading of international projects (USA, China, Japan, Korea) 

Team‐oriented leadership, fostering development of team members 

Management of conflicts and critical situations as line executive and project 

manager 

Moderation of panel discussions 

Presentations in front of larger audiences (e.g. top management meeting, T‐Systems 

2011) 

Personal Seek first to understand, then to be understood 

Analytical skills 

Quick perception, goal‐oriented structuring of tasks 

Team‐oriented, communicative 

Experienced, inter‐disciplinary teamplayer 

Outstanding engagement, efficient execution 

Able to work under pressure, structured, decisive, open‐minded 




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Publications 

Journals 

J1. Kranz, M. , Murmann, L., Michahelles, F.: Research in the large: Challenges for large‐scale 

mobile application research: a case study about NFC adoption using gamification via an 

App store, International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI), 

(forthcoming) 

J2. 2013 In : International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction . 

J3. Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj, Florian Michahelles: Online Engagement Factors on Facebook Brand 

Pages, Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Special Issue: Social Informatics, 

Springer, 2013 (in press). 

J4. Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj, Florian: Understanding the User Generated Content and Interactions on a 

Facebook Brand Page, Michahelles, International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing 

(IJSHC) Special Issue ʺContemporary Social Media Topics in Business and Public 

Organizationsʺ, Inderscience Publishers, 2012. 

J5. S. Karpischek, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch, my2cents – enabling research on consumer‐product 

interaction, Special Issue on ʺSmartphone Applications and Services for Pervasive 

Computingʺ, Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing ‐ Springer, 2011, ISSN 1617‐ 

490, Doi: 10.1007/s00779‐011‐0426. 

J6. Ilic, A.; Grössbauer, A.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, F.: Understanding Data Volume Problems of 

RFID‐enabled Supply Chains, Business Process Management Journal, Volume 16, Issue 6, 2010. 

J7. Thiesse, F.; Flörkemeier, C.; Harrison, M.; Michahelles, F.; Roduner, C.: Technology, Standards, 

and Real‐World Deployments of the EPC Network. IEEE Internet Computing 13(2), 2009, pp 36‐ 

42 

J8. Ilic, A.; Andersen, T.; Michahelles, F.: Increased Supply Chain Visibility through Rule‐Based 

Analysis of RFID Data, IEEE Internet Computing 13(1), 2009. 

J9. Lehtonen, M.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Trust and Security in RFID‐based Product 

Authentication Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on RFID Technology: 

Opportunities and Challenges 1(2), 2007, pp. 129‐144 

J10. Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Sensing and Monitoring Professional Skiing Athletes: Lessons Learned 

from a Collaboration with Ski Trainerʹs, Pervasive Computing Magazin 4(3), IEEE, 2005, pp 40‐ 

46 

J11. Holmquist, L.; Gellersen, H.; Kortuem, G.; Schmidt, A.; Strohbach, M.; Antifakos, S.; 

Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.; Beigl, M.; Maze, R.: Building intelligent environments with Smart‐Its, 

Computer Graphics and Applications 24(1), IEEE, 2004, pp 56 – 64 

J12. Michahelles, F.; Matter, P.; Schmidt, A.; Schiele, B.: Applying Wearable Sensors to Avalanche 

Rescue: First Experiences with a Novel Avalanche Beacon. Computers & Graphics 27(6), 2003 

J13. Michahelles, F.; Samulowitz, M.: Smart CAPs for Smart Its ‐ Context Detection for Mobile Users, 

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 6(4), Springer, pp 269‐275 

Invited papers and practitioners‘ magazins 

O1. F. Michahelles, Rob van Kranenburg and Markus Waibel : 

O2. Enlisting Robots ‐ Once robots are integrated into the Internet of Things, they can perform 

tasks automatically., Inside the labs column in RFID Journal, August, 2012. 

O3. F. Michahelles, F. Thiesse: An untapped potential of RFID lies in the analysis of aggregated 

data – A case study from retail, Inside the labs column in RFID Journal, January 10, 2011. 

O4. Michahelles, F., Karpischek, S., Schmidt, A.: What can the Internet of Things do for the 

citizen?, Pervasive Computing, IEEE, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 102‐104, Oct.‐Dec. 2010. 

O5. S. von Watzdorf, F. Michahelles: Improving the design of track and trace products, 

Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, 

and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC2010), June 2010. 




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O6. Florian Michahelles: How the Internet of Things will gain momentum: Empower the users, 

slides, International Conference of Impact on Ubiquitous RFID/USN Systems to Industry 

(Koala 2009), Sunchon, Oct 6, 2009. 

O7. F. Michahelles and A. Ilic: A Tool for All Industries, Inside the labs column in RFID Journal, 

October 1, 2009. 

O8. F. Michahelles and M. Lehtonen: Protecting EPC Tags, Inside the labs column in RFID 

Journal, 1 August, 2008 

O9. Michahelles, F.; Thiesse, F.; Schmidt, A.; Williams, J.R.: Pervasive RFID and Near Field 

Communication Technology. IEEE Pervasive Computing 6 (3), 2007 

O10. F. Michahelles and E. Fleisch: RFID for Everyone, Inside the labs column in RFID Journal, 1 

August, 2007 pp 94‐96 

O11. Thiesse, F.; Michahelles, F.: An overview of EPC technology. Sensor Review 26 (2), 2006, 101‐105 

O12. Schmidt, A.; Spiekermann, S.; Gershman, A.; Michahelles, F., Real‐World Challenges of 

Pervasive Computing, Pervasive Computing, IEEE 5(3), 2006, pp 91‐ 93 

O13. P. Schmitt, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: RFID in Automotive Industry ‐ A Future Outlook, In: Auto 

Focus Asia, May 2006 

O14. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.: Wie KMU von RFID‐Standards profitieren, in Blickpunkt: KMU, 

2006, p 2‐3 

O15. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.: RFID in der Logistik ‐ Strategische Wettbewerbsvorteile, in 

Management & Qualitaet, Heft 11/2005, pp 8‐10 (title article) 

Conferences 

C1. Johannes Paefgen, Flavius Kehr, Yudan Zhai, Florian Michahelles: Driving Behavior Analysis 

with Smartphones: Insights from a Controlled Field Study, Proceedings of the 10th ACM 

SIGMOBILE Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ12), Ulm, Germany, 

December 2012. 

C2. Florian Michahelles, Philip Probst: Object Circles: Modeling physical objects as social relationships, 

Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGMOBILE Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 

(MUMʹ12), Ulm, Germany, December 2012. 

C3. Matthias Wyss, Alexander Ilic, Florian Michahelles: The scanner at your finger tips ‐ analysis of 

the effectiveness of the scan mouse device, Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGMOBILE Conference 

on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ12), Ulm, Germany, December 2012 (best paper 

nominee). 

C4. Nan Zhong, Florian Michahelles: Where should You Focus: Long Tail or Superstar?, An analysis 

of app adoption on the Android Market, Symposium on Apps at Siggraph Asia, Singapore, 

November, 2012. 

C5. Nan Zhong, Florian Michahelles: Examining the Long Tail of Android Market, 3rd workshop on 

Research in the large (at MobileHCI 2012), San Francisco, September 21, 2012. 

C6. Lukas Murmann, Florian Michahelles, Matthias Kranz: NFC Heroes – Observing NFC Adoption 

through a Mobile Trading Card Game, 3rd workshop on Research in the large (at MobileHCI 

2012), San Francisco, September 21, 2012. 

C7. Andreas Möller, Florian Michahelles, Stefan Diewald, Luis Roalter, Matthias Kranz: Update 

Behavior in App Markets and Security Implications: A Case Study in Google Play, 3rd workshop on 

Research in the large (at MobileHCI 2012), San Francisco, September 21, 2012. 

C8. Stephan Karpischek, Darshan Santani, Florian Michahelles: Usage Analysis of a Mobile Bargain 

Finder Application, 13th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web 

Technologies (ECWEB2012), Vienna, Austria, September 2012. 

C9. Stephan Karpischek, Florian Michahelles, Elgar Fleisch: The Not So Unique Global Trade 

Identification Number ‐ Product master data quality in publicly available sources, 14th International 

Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2012), Singapore, August 2012. 




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C10. Erica Dubach, Christian Hildebrand, Florian Michahelles: Social Network Comments on Digital 

Signage – Evidence from a Field Experiment, 9 th International Conference on Pervasive 

Computing, San Francisco, June, 2012. 

C11. Dirk Volland, Kay Noyen, Onur Kayikci, Lukas Ackermann and Florian Michahelles: 

Switching the role of NFC tag and reader for the implementation of Smart Posters, NFC 2012, 

Helsinki, 2012. 

C12. Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj, Florian Michahelles: Monitoring Trends on Facebook, International 

Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA 2011), Sydney, Australia, 

December 2011. 

C13. Andreas Budde, Florian Michahelles, Ivan Delchev, Carsten Magerkurth: Context‐Aware 

Mobile Consumer Support at the Point of Sale, Workshop on Mobile Interaction in Retail 

Environments (MIRE) at MobileHCI 2011, August 30, 2011, Stockholm/Sweden 

C14. Irena Pletikosa, Erica Dubach, Florian Michahelles: Effect of Moderator Posts on User Interaction 

on a Facebook Brand Page, Third IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 

(SocialCom2011), Boston, October 2011. 

C15. Stephan Karpischek, Geron Gilad, Florian Michahelles: Towards a Better Understanding of 

Mobile Shopping Assistants ‐ A large scale usage analysis of a mobile bargain finder application, 

Second Workshop on ʹResearch in the Largeʹ; Using App Stores, Wide Distribution Channels 

& Big Data in UbiComp Research (Research in the Large 2) at Ubicomp 2011, Beijing, 

September 2011. 

C16. Johannes Paefgen, Thorsten Staake, Florian Michahelles: GPS Trajectory Feature Extraction for 

Driver Risk Profiling, International Workshop on Trajectory Data Mining and Analysis 

(TDMAʹ11) at Ubicomp 2011, Beijing, September 2011. 

C17. Irena Pletikosa, Florian Michahelles: Understanding Social Media Marketing: A Case Study on 

Topics, Categories and Sentiment on a Facebook Brand Page, 15th MindTrek Conference and the 

International Academic Conference (MindTrek 2011), Tampere, Finland, September 2011. 

C18. Irena Pletikosa, Florian Michahelles: A Case Study of the Effects of Moderator Posts within a 

Facebook Brand Page, 3rd International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2011), 

Singapore, October 2011. 

C19. Erica Dubach Spiegler, Louise Muhdi, Dominic Stöcklin, Florian Michahelles: Crowdsourcing 

for “Kiosk of the Future” – A Retail Store Case Study, Proceedings of the Seventeenth Americas 

Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2011), Detroit, Michigan August 4th‐7th 2011. 

C20. Stephan Karpischek, Florian Michahelles, Elgar Fleisch: The not so Unique Global Trade 

Identification Number ‐ Exploring Inconsistencies in Online Product Information Sources, 7th 

European Workshop on Smart Objects: Systems, Technologies and Applications (RFID‐ 

SysTech 2001), Dresden, Germany, May 2011. 

C21. S. Karpischek, F. Michahelles : my2cents ‐ a Twitter for products, The 2010 International 

Workshop on Smartphone Applications and Services (Smartphone 2010), Gwangju, Korea, 

December 2010. (Best Paper Award) 

C22. S. von Watzdorf, F. Michahelles : How to sell microinsurance via smartphones: Experiences from a 

first deployment in South Africa, Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGMOBILE Conference on 

Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ10), Limassol, Cyprus, November 2010. (Best 

Short Paper Award) 

C23. S. von Watzdorf, F.Michahelles: Accuracy of Positioning Data on Smartphones, Third 

International Workshop on Location and the Web, co‐located with IoT 2010, Tokyo, Japan 

November, 2010. 

C24. J. Päfgen, F.Michahelles: Inferring Usage Characteristics of Electric Bicycles from Position 

Information, Third International Workshop on Location and the Web, co‐located with IoT 

2010, Tokyo, Japan November, 2010. 

C25. F. Michahelles: Getting closer to reality by evaluating released apps?, Workshop “Research in the 

Large” at Ubicomp 2010, 26 September 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark. 




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C26. A. Girardello, F. Michahelles, Bootstrapping Your Mobile Application on a Social Market, 

Workshop “Research in the Large” at Ubicomp 2010, 26 September 2010, Copenhagen, 

Denmark. 

C27. F. Cerbo, A. Girardello, F. Michahelles: Detection of Malicious Applications on Android OS, 4th 

International Workshop on Computational Forensics (IWCF10), Tokyo, Japan, November 

2010. 

C28. von Reischach, F.; Adelmann, R.; Karpischek, S.; Michahelles, F.: How to Design Barcode 

Readers for mobile phones, Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, 2010. 

C29. Budde, A., Michahelles, F.: Product Empire - Serious playing with barcodes, Internet of Things 

2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, 2010. 

C30. Karpischek, S., Michahelles, F.: My2Cents - Digitizing thoughts and comments of consumers 

about products, Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, 2010. 

C31. Girardello, A., Michahelles, F.: Explicit and Implicit Ratings for Mobile Applications, 3. Workshop 

Digitale Soziale Netzeʺ an der 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Leipzig, 

September, 2010 (Best Paper Award). 

C32. Budde, A., Michahelles, F.: Towards a Barcode Repository using a playful approach, 3. Workshop 

ʺDigitale Soziale Netzeʺ an der 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik, Leipzig, 

September, 2010. 

C33. S. Karpischek, A. Rau, F. Michahelles: my2cents - sharing comments about retail products on 

Twitter, Poster at the Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 

2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 2010 (Best Poster Award). 

C34. M. Kranz, L. Roalter and Florian Michahelles and F. Michahelles: Things That Twitter: Social 

Networks and the Internet of Things, What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen (CIoT) 

Workshop at The Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), 

Helsinki, Finland, May 2010. 

C35. I. Pletikosa Cvijikj, G. Cetin, S. Karpischek and F. Michahelles: Facebook Influence on Purchase 

Decision Making, What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen (CIoT) Workshop at The 

Eighth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, 

May 2010. 

C36. A. Girardello, F. Michahelles: TwiPhone: Sharing Communication Behavior on Twitter, What can 

the Internet of Things do for the Citizen (CIoT) Workshop at The Eighth International 

Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 2010. 

C37. Girardello, A., Michahelles, F.: AppAware: Which Mobile Applications Are Hot?, In Adjunct- 

Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCHI SIGMOBILE International Conference on Human- 

Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCIʹ 10), Demo Paper, 

Portugal, September 2010. 

C38. von Reischach, F.; Dubach, E.; Michahelles, F.; Schmidt, A.: An Evaluation of Product Review 

Modalities for Mobile Phones, In Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGCHI SIGMOBILE 

International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 

(MobileHCIʹ 10), Portugal, September 2010. 

C39. Dubach, E.; Michahelles, F.: Field Experiment of Social Network Content on Public Displays in 

Small-Space Retail Shops, Pervasive Advertising and Shopping 2010 Workshop at The Eighth 

International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, Finland, May 

2010. 

C40. Karpischek, S.; Marforio, C.; Godenzi, M.; Heuel, S.; Michahelles. F.: Mobile augmented reality 

to identify mountains, Demo, In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on 

Ambient Intelligence AmI-09), Salzburg, Austria, November 18 - 21, 2009. 

C41. Karpischek, S.; Marforio, C.; Godenzi, M.; Heuel, S.; Michahelles. F.: SwissPeaks - Mobile 

augmented reality to identify mountains, Letʹ s Go Out: Research in Outdoor Mixed and 

Augmented Reality. Workshop at the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented 

Reality 2009 (ISMAR 2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 19, 2009. 




8 of 35 pages 

C42. O. Baecker, T. Ippisch, F. Michahelles, S. Roth, E. Fleisch: Location-Based Claims Assistance 

using Mobile Phones, In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGMOBILE Conference on Mobile and 

Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ 09), United Kingdom, November 2009. 

C43. F. von Reischach, F. Michahelles, A. Schmidt: The Design Space of Ubiquitous Product 

Recommendation Systems, In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGMOBILE Conference on Mobile 

and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ 09), United Kingdom, November 2009. 

C44. Stephan Karpischek, Fabio Magagna, Florian Michahelles, Juliana Sutanto, Elgar Fleisch: 

Towards location-aware mobile web browsers, In Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGMOBILE 

Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ 09), United Kingdom, November 

2009. 

C45. S. Karpischek, F. Michahelles, A. Bereuter, E. Fleisch: A Maintenance System based on Near Field 

Communication, Third International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, 

Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2009), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 15-18, 2009. 

C46. A. Ilic, A. Grössbauer, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Estimating Data Volumes of RFID‐enabled 

Supply Chains, , 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), San Francisco, 

CA, 2009 

C47. von Watzdorf, S.; Michahelles, F.: Evaluating Mobile Phones as Risk Information Providers, 11 th 

International Conference on Human‐Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 

(MobileHCI09), Bonn, 2009. 

C48. Baecker, O.; Michahelles, F.; Bereuter, A.; Mollnau, D.; Geller, F.; Fleisch, E. (2009): Mobile 

First Notice of Loss: Web Service‐Based Enterprise Integration of the Android Platform, Demo, In 

Adjunct Proceedings of the 7 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Vienna, 

2009, pp 257‐260 

C49. Baecker, O.; Michahelles, F.; Bereuter, A.; Mollnau, D.; Geller, F.; Fleisch, E.: Mobile First 

Notice of Loss: Claim Assistance in your Pocket, Video, In Adjunct Proceedings of the 7 th 

International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Vienna, 2009, pp 279‐282 

C50. von Reischach, F.; Michahelles, F.; Guinard, D.; Adelmann, R.; Fleisch, E.; Schmidt, A.: An 

Evaluation of Product Identification Techniques for Mobile Phones, Full Paper at the 12 th IFIP 

TC13 Conference in Human‐Computer Interaction (Interact2009), Sweden, August 2009 

C51. Lehtonen, M.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: How to Detect Cloned Tags in a Reliable Way from 

Incomplete RFID Traces, In the 3 rd IEEE RFID 2009 Conference, Orlando, April 2009 

C52. M. Lehtonen, A. Ruhanen, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Serialized TID Numbers – A Headache or a 

Blessing for RFID Crackers?, 3 rd IEEE RFID 2009 Conference, Orlando, April 2009 

C53. M. Lehtonen, F. Michahelles, D. Ostojic: Securing RFID systems by detecting tag cloning, 7 th 

International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasiveʹ09), Japan, May 2009 

C54. Karpischek, S.; Resatsch, F.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Mobile Sales Assistant ‐ An NFC‐based 

product information system for retailers, 1 st International Workshop on Near Field 

Communication ‐ NFCʹ09, Hagenberg, 2009 

C55. Michahelles, F.: Empowering users to shape the Internet of Things, 1 st International Workshop on 

Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐Blocksʹ08), In Conjunction 

with European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐08), Nuremberg and 

Erlangen/Germany, 2008 

C56. von Reischach, F.; Guinard, D.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: A Mobile Product Recommendation 

System Interacting with Tagged Products, Short Paper at the 7 th Annual IEEE International 

Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2009), Galveston, 2009 

C57. Metzger, C.; Ilic, A.; Bourquin, P.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Distance‐sensitive High Frequency 

RFID Systems, International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA), 

Alexandria, 2008. 

C58. Guinard, D.; Baecker, O.; Michahelles, F.: Supporting a Mobile Lost and Found Community, in 

Procedings of ACM MobileHCI, Amsterdam, 2008 




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C59. Guinard, D.; von Reischach, F.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: MobileIoT Toolkit: Connecting the 

EPC Network to Mobile Phones, Workshop on Mobile Interaction with the Real World (MIRW) 

at MobileHCI 2008, Amsterdam, 2008 

C60. Dominique Guinard, Florian Michahelles, Sassan Iraji, Harri Hirvola and Elgar Fleisch: 

EPCFind: Implementing a Mobile Lost and Found Infrastructure, Poster and Demonstrator, 9 th 

Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2008 

C61. F. von Reischach, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Making Product Ratings Ubiquitous ‐ A Mobile 

Rating System for Tagged Real World Products, Poster and Demonstrator, 9 th Workshop on 

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2008 

C62. Ilic, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Towards a Business Collaboration Framework for the EPC Network, 

EU RFID Forum and 4th RFID Academic Convocation, Brussels, Belgium 

C63. F. von Reischach, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Anti‐Counterfeiting 2.0 ‐ A Consumer‐Driven 

Approach towards Product Authentication, Late Breaking Results Paper, 9 th International 

Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Austria, September 2007. 

C64. C. Metzger, F. Michahelles, and E. Fleisch: Ambient Energy Scavenging for Sensor‐equipped RFID 

Tags in the Cold Chain, 2 nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), 

Kendal, October 2007 

C65. E. Dubach, F. Michahelles, and E. Fleisch: Retail Store Inventory: Visualizing RFID in Second 

Life, 2 nd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC), Kendal, October 

2007 

C66. Dada, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Integrating Actuation on RFID Tags: an Energy Consideration, 

Poster, In Bardram, J., Han, S., Kim, M., Kranz, M., Linnhoff‐Popien, C., Lukowicz, P., 

Nishio, N., Scott, J., Sparacino, F., & Strang, T. (Eds.), Adjunct Proceedings of the 9 th 

International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Innsbruck, September 

2007, pp. 188‐191 

C67. Wiechert, T.; Thiesse, F.; Michahelles, F.; Schmitt, P.; Fleisch, E.: Connecting Mobile Phones to 

the Internet of Things: A discussion of compatibility issues between EPC and NFC. 13 th Americas 

Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Keystone (CO), 2007 

C68. F. v. Reischach, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Anti‐Counterfeiting 2.0 ‐ A Consumer‐Driven 

Approach towards Product Authentication, Poster, In Bardram, J., Han, S., Kim, M., Kranz, M., 

Linnhoff‐Popien, C., Lukowicz, P., Nishio, N., Scott, J., Sparacino, F., & Strang, T. (Eds.), 

Adjunct Proceedings of the 9 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing 

(UbiComp 2007), Innsbruck, September 2007, pp. 188‐191 

C69. M. Lehtonen, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch: Probabilistic Approach for Location‐Based Authentication, 

1 st International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction IWSSI 2007, organized in 

9 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Austria, September 2007, [PDF]. 

C70. Wiechert, T.; Thiesse, F.; Michahelles, F.; Schmitt, P.; Fleisch, E. (2007): Connecting Mobile 

Phones to the Internet of Things: A Discussion of Compatibility Issues between EPC and NFC, 

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2007, Keystone, Colorado, USA. 

C71. Ilic, F. Michahelles and E. Fleisch: The Dual Ownership Model: Using Organizational 

Relationships for Access Control in Safety Supply Chains, IEEE International Symposium on 

Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe‐07), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2007 

C72. Ilic, F. Michahelles and E. Fleisch: Dual Ownership: Access Management for Shared Item 

Information in RFID‐enabled Supply Chains, PerTec Workshop at the 5 th International 

Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2007), White Plains, 

NY, USA, 2007. 

C73. Lehtonen, M., Staake, T., Michahelles, F., Fleisch, E.: Strengthening the Security of Machine 

Readable Documents by Combining RFID and Optical Memory Devices, 1 st Ambient Intelligence 

Developments Conference (AmI.d 2006), September 2006 




10 of 35 pages 

C74. Lehtonen, M., Staake, T., Michahelles, F., Fleisch, E.: From Identification to Authentication ‐ A 

Review of RFID Product Authentication Techniques, 2 nd Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec 

06), Graz, July 2006 

C75. Flörkemeier, C.; Michahelles, F.; Lehtonen, M.; Hinske, S.: An RFID Tag in Every Ski – Item‐ 

Level Tagging in the Ski Industry, Proceedings of the Pervasive 2006 Workshop ʺPervasive 

Technology Applied ‐ Real‐World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networksʺ at the 4 th 

International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006) , Dublin, May 2006 

C76. Michahelles, F.; Crameri, E.; Schiele, B.: Design, Implementation and Testing of a Wearable 

Sensing System for Professional Downhill Skiing in Cooperation with Trainers, 2 nd International 

Forum on Applied Wearable Computing (IFAWC 2005), Zurich, March 2005 

C77. Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Experiencing Technology before it exists: A Case Study, Proceedings of 

the Pervasive 2005 Workshop ʺWhat makes for good application‐led research in ubiquitous 

computing?” at the 3 rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2005), 

Munich, May 2005 

C78. Antifakos, S.; Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Towards Situation‐Aware Affordances: An Experimental 

Study, 2 nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2004), Vienna, April 

2004 

C79. Michahelles, F.; Antifakos, S.; Schmidt, A.; Beigl, M.; Schiele, B.: Towards Distributed Awareness 

‐ An Artifact based Approach, 6 th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and 

Applications (WMCSA 2004), Lake District, 2004 

C80. Michahelles, F.; Wicki, R.; Schiele, B.: Less Contact: Heart‐rate detection without even touching the 

user. 8 th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers Conference (ISWC 2004), 

Arlington, November 2004 

C81. Michahelles, F.; Ahonen, T.; Schiele, B.: A‐Life ‐ Increasing Survival Chances in Avalanches by 

Wearable Sensors, 3 rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing 

(IWSAWC 2003), Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003, ISSN 1432‐7864 

C82. Michahelles, F.; Boutellier, J.; Schmidt, A.; Schiele, B.: Instructions immersed into the real world 

How your Furniture can teach you, Poster, 5 th International Conference on Ubiquitous 

Computing (Ubicomp 2003), Seattle, October 2003 

C83. Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: A‐Life: Saving Lives in Avalanches, Video, 5 th International 

Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2003), Seattle, October 2003 

C84. Michahelles, F.; Matter, P.; Schmidt, A.; Schiele, B.: Applying Wearable Sensors to Avalanche 

Rescue: First Experiences with a Novel Avalanche Beacon, 4 th International Workshop on Mobile 

Computing ʺAssistance, Mobility, Applicationsʺ (IMC Workshop), Rostock, June 2003, ISBN: 

3‐8167‐6319‐7. 

C85. Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Sensing Opportunities for Physical Interaction. Workshop on Real 

World User Interfaces (PI03) at the 5 th International Symposium on Human‐Computer 

Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2003), Udine, September 2003. 

C86. Schmidt, A.; Siegemund, F.; Beigl, M.; Antifakos, S.; Michahelles, F.; Gellersen, H.: Mobile Adhoc 

Communication Issues in Ubiquitous Computing: The Smart‐Its Experimentation Platforms. 

Project Presentation at the 8 th International Conference on Personal Wireless Communication 

(PWC 03), Venice, September 2003 

C87. Antifakos, S.; Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly. 4 th 

International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, (UbiComp 2002), Göteborg, September 

2002 

C88. Michahelles, F.; Samulowitz, M.; Schiele, B.: Detecting Context in Distributed Sensor Networks by 

Using Smart Context‐Aware Packets, International Conference on Architecture of Computing 

Systems (ARCS 2002), Karlsruhe, April 2002 

C89. Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Better Rescue through Sensors. 1 st International Workshop on 

Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Aids (UbiCogʹ02) at the 4 th International Conference on 

Ubiquitous Computing, (UbiComp 2002), Göteborg, September 2002 





C90. Michahelles, F.; Samulowitz, M.: Smart CAPs for Smart Its ‐ Context Detection for Mobile Users, 

3 rd International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices 

(MobileHCI 2003) at IHM‐HCI 2001, Lille, September 2001 

C91. Samulowitz, M.; Michahelles, F.; Linnhoff‐Popien, C.: Adaptive Interaction for Enabling 

Pervasive Services, 2 nd ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and 

Mobile Access (MobiDE01), Santa Barbara, May 2001 

C92. Samulowitz, M.; Michahelles, F.; Linnhoff‐Popien, C.: CAPEUS: An Architecture for Context‐ 

Aware Selection and Execution of Services, 3 rd IFIP WG 6.1 International Working Conference 

on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems at DAISʹ2001 Conference, Krakow, 

September 2001 

Books 

K1. ʺArchitecting the Internet of Thingsʺ, Uckelmann, D., Harrison, M., Michahelles, F. (eds.). 

Springer, 2011, forthcoming. 

K2. Michahelles, F.: Innovative application development for ubiquitous and wearable computing, 

Selected readings in vision and graphics Vol. 36, Hartung‐Gorre Verlag, ISBN 3‐89649‐981‐5 , 

2004 

Book chapters 

B1. E. Dubach Spiegler, F. Michahelles, C. Hildebrand: Social Networks in Pervasive 

Advertising and Shopping, in Müller, Jörg; Alt, Florian; Michelis, Daniel (Eds.), Pervasive 

Advertising, Springer Human–Computer Interaction, September 2011. ISBN 978‐0‐85729‐ 

351‐0 

B2. Uckelmann, D., Harrison, M., Michahelles, F.: An Architectural Approach towards the 

Future Internet of Things, in Uckelmann, D., Harrison, M., Michahelles, F. (eds.): 

Architecting the Internet of Things, Springer, to be released in 2011. 

B3. Pletikosa Cvijic, I., Michahelles, F.: Towards a participatory Internet of Things, in 

Uckelmann, D., Harrison, M., Michahelles, F. (eds.): Architecting the Internet of Things, 

Springer, to be released in 2011. 

B4. Ilic, A.; Burbridge, T.; Soppera, A.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Threat Modelling in EPCbased 

Information Sharing Networks, in ʺSecurity in RFID and Sensor Networksʺ, Auerbach 

Publications, CRC Press, Taylor&Francis Group, 2009 

B5. Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: The application of RFID as anti‐counterfeiting technique: 

issues and opportunities, in: Miles, S., Sarma, S.E., Williams, J.R. (eds.): RFID ‐ Technology and 

Applications. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, pp. 157‐168 

B6. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Adoption and Diffusion of RFID Technology in the 

Automotive Industry, In: Selvan, N.K. (ed.): SCM in Automotive Industry ‐ Concepts and 

Cases. The Icfai University Press: India, 2008 

B7. Fleisch, E.; Michahelles, F.: Messen und Managen ‐ Bedeutung des Ubiquitous Computing für die 

Wirtschaft, in Friedemann Mattern (Hrsg.): Die Informatisierung des Alltags ‐ Leben in 

smarten Umgebungen. Springer‐Verlag, 2007 

Working papers 

W1. Irena Pletikosa Cvijikj, Florian Michahelles, Elgar Fleisch : Social Media Integration into the 

GS1 Framework, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2012 

W2. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.: Status of RFID/EPC Adoption, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. 

Gallen / Zurich, 2009 

W3. Ilic, A.; Michahelles, F.; Maidment, R.; Soppera, A.; Aigner, M.; Kasten, O.: A Technology 

Roadmap for Auto‐ID Technologies, Deliverable D4.7.1 of BRIDGE project (Building Radio 

frequency Identification solutions for Global Environment), Project no. 033546, 2007 





W4. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.: Towards a Successful RFID Adoption ‐ Guidelines based on an 

empirical study, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2009 

W5. Guinard, D.; Baecker, O.; Michahelles, F.: Supporting a Mobile Lost and Found Community, 

Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2009 

W6. von Reischach, F.; Michahelles, F.: APriori: A Ubiquitous Product Rating System, Working 

Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2009 

W7. Guinard, D.; von Reischach, F.; Michahelles, F.: MobileIoT Toolkit: Connecting the EPC Network 

to Mobile Phones, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2009 

W8. Ilic, A.; Andersen, T.; Michahelles, F.: EPCIS‐based Supply Chain Visualization Tool, Working 


W9. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: Why RFID Adoption and Diffusion takes Time: The Role 

of Standards in the Automotive Industry. Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W10. Michahelles, F.; Graf von Reischach, F.: The Potential of the EPC network for Supporting 

Consumers, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W11. von Watzdorf, S.; Michahelles, F.: Design, Development and Evaluation of a Mobile Risk‐ 

Information Service, Nokia Project ʺConnecting the Mobile Phone with the Internet of Thing 

IIʺ, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W12. Ilic, A.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: The EPC Business Collaboration Framework, Working 


W13. Ilic, A.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: The Dual Ownership Model, Working Report, Auto‐ID 

Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2007 

W14. Ilic, A.; Michahelles, F.; Burbridge, T.; Farr, J.: Economic Relevance of Secure RFID Solutions, 

Deliverabe D4.1.3 of BRIDGE project (Building Radio frequency Identification solutions for 

Global Environment), Project no. 033546, 2007 

W15. Ilic, A.; Farr, J.; Kasten, O.; Michahelles, F.: Supply Chain Integrity, Deliverabe D4.6.1 of 

BRIDGE project (Building Radio frequency Identification solutions for Global Environment), 

Project no. 033546, 2007 

W16. Lehtonen, M.; Al‐Kassab, J.; Graf von Reischach, F.; Kasten, O.; Michahelles, F.: Problem‐ 

Analysis Report on Counterfeiting and Illicit Tradeʺ, Deliverabe D5.1 of BRIDGE project 

(Building Radio frequency Identification solutions for Global Environment), Project no. 

033546, February 2007 

W17. Al‐Kassab, J.; Lehtonen, M.; Dubach, E.; Michahelles, F.: Anti‐counterfeiting Requirements 

Report, Deliverabe D5.2 of BRIDGE project (Building Radio frequency Identification 

solutions for Global Environment), Project no. 033546, 2007 

W18. Wiechert, T.; Michahelles, F.: Scenarios for the Use of EPC enabled Mobile Phones, Nokia Project 

ʺConnecting the Mobile Phone with the Internet of Thing Iʺ, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab 

St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W19. Wiechert, T.; Michahelles, F.: Business Cases for EPC Mobile Phone Applications, Nokia Project 

ʺConnecting the Mobile Phone with the Internet of Thing Iʺ, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab 

St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W20. Adelmann, R.; Michahelles, F.: Scenarios of feasible end‐user developed applications, Nokia 

Project ʺConnecting the Mobile Phone with the Internet of Thing Iʺ, Working Report, Auto‐ 

ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2008 

W21. Wiechert, T.; Thiesse, F.; Michahelles, F.; Schmitt, P.; Fleisch, E.: Connecting Mobile Phones to 

the Internet of Things: A Discussion of Compatibility Issues between EPC and NFC. Working 


W22. Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; Thiesse, F.; Fleisch, E.: Anti‐Counterfeiting Special Interest Group. 


W23. Schmitt, P.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: An Adoption Strategy for an Open RFID Standard ‐ 

Potentials for RFID in the Automotive Aftermarket, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 





W24. Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.; Williams, J.R.; Min, H.; Cole, P.; Lee, S.; McFarlane, D.; 

Murai, J.: Flagship Project Anti‐Counterfeiting & Secure Supply Chain, Working Report, Auto‐ID 

Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 

W25. Lehtonen, M.; Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: Strengthening the Security of Machine‐ 

Readable Documents, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 

W26. Lehtonen, M.; Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: The Potential of RFID and NFC in Anti‐ 

Counterfeiting, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 

W27. Lehtonen, M.; Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: From Identification to Authentication, 


W28. Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; Fleisch, E.: The Use of RFID Technology and Optical Media to 

Advance the Security of Travel, Special Interest Group Report for Bundesdruckerei, 2006 

W29. Flörkemeier, C.; Michahelles, F.; Lehtonen, M.; Hinske, S.: RFID solutions for the ski industry, 

FESI Ski Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 

W30. Lehtonen, M.; Staake, T.; Michahelles, F.; F.; Fleisch, E.: Probabilistic Approach for Location‐ 

Based Authentication, Working Report, Auto‐ID Lab St. Gallen / Zurich, 2006 

Theses 

T1. Michahelles, F.: Innovative application development for ubiquitous and wearable computing. 

Dissertation, Technische Wissenschaften ETH Zürich, Nr. 15866, Selected readings in vision 

and graphics Vol. 36 , Hartung‐Gorre Verlag, ISBN 3‐89649‐981‐5 , 2004 

T2. Michahelles, F.: Designing an Architecture for Context‐Aware Service Selection and Execution, 

Diplomarbeit, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München, February 2001 

Patents 

P1. F. von Reischach, S. Karpischek, E. Dubach, F. Michahelles: System and Method for Creating 

Product Reviews via Mobile Devices and Using these for Market Research, Advertising, and 

Mobile Shopping Support, US Patent Application 61/308,160. 

P2. F. von Reischach, F. Michahelles : Collaborative Anti‐Counterfeiting,, US Patent Application 

No. 11/855797, SAP AG (DE), 2007. (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0072946.html) 

Manuscripts under Review/ Planned 

R1. Edward Ho, Alexander Ilic, Florian Michahelles, About my groceries ‐ user acceptance study of 

receipt mining: Evidence from an online survey and a user study, MobileHCI 2013, Munich, 

February, 2013. 

R2. Noyen, K.; Michahelles, F.: ʺElectric Mobility Roamingʺ, MobileHCI 2013, Munich, February, 

2013. 

R3. Murrmann, L.; Michahelles, F.: Where are the NFC tags ‐ evidence from gamified crowdsourcing, 

International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI). 

R4. Matthias Kranz, Kåre Synnes, and Florian Michahelles: What if things become my friends? 

Evidence from a case study, Networking Science Journal, Special Issue on Internet of Things. 

R5. Pletikosa Cvijikj I, Dubach Spiegler E, Michahelles F (2013): Increasing the engagement and 

participation among consumers on Facebook brand pages, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Special Issue: 

Wirtschaftsinformatik und Marketing 

R6. Stephan Karpischek, Florian Michahelles: The quality of product names in publicly available 

sources, Electronic Markets ‐ The International Journal on Networked Business. 

R7. Pletikosa Cvijikj I, Dubach Spiegler E, Michahelles F (2013): Evaluation Framework for Social 

Media Brand Presence, Social Network Analysis and Mining. 

R8. Pletikosa Cvijikj I, Dubach Spiegler E, Michahelles F (2013): Online Engagement Factors on 

Facebook Brand Pages, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Special Issue: Social 

Informatics. 





Talks 

Scientific Audience 

S1. (Paper Presentation) The scanner at your finger tips ‐ analysis of the effectiveness of the scan 

mouse device, 10th Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Ulm, December 2012. 

S2. (Paper Presentation) Object Circles: Modeling physical objects as social relationships, 10th 

Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Ulm, December 2012. 

S3. (Invited Talk) Societal impacts of Internet of Things, opening keynote, International Joint 

Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI2012), Pisa, November, 2012. 

S4. (Invited Talk) Internet of Things – Towards New Frontiers of Knowledge Management, opening 

keynote, International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering 

and Knowledge Management (IC3K), October, Barcelona, 2012. 

S5. (Paper Presentation) NFC Heroes ‐ Observing NFC Adoption through a Mobile Trading 

Card Game, 3rd Workshop on Research in the Large @MobileHCI2012, San Francisco, 

September 2012. 

S6. (Paper Presentation) Update Behavior in App Markets and Security Implications: A Case 

Study in Google Play, 3rd Workshop on Research in the Large @MobileHCI2012, San 

Francisco, September 2012. 

S7. (Paper Presentation) An analysis of app adoption on the Android Market, 3rd Workshop 

on Research in the Large @MobileHCI2012, San Francisco, September 2012. 

S8. (Invited Talk) Swiss Practizes on the Technology Transfer, Licensing and encoding 

methods prezi), opening keynote, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, September, 2012. 

S9. (Invited Talk) When will RFID embrace our everyday lifes?, opening keynote, The 8th 

Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy (RFIDSec2012), July, 2012. 

S10. (Panel Moderator) Emerging Trends in the Internet of Things, ETH Zurich, March, 2012. 

S11. (Paper presentation) Switching the role of NFC tag and reader for the implementation of Smart 

Posters, NFC 2012, Helsinki, March, 2012. 

S12. (Invited Talk) Advances in Internet of Things Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 

September, 2011. 

S13. (Guest Lecture) Business Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing: Internet of Things, Ubiquitous 

Computing at Technische Universität München, Munich, June 6, 2011. 

S14. (Invited Talk) Comparing installation behavior with reviews of mobile apps, Vienna University of 

Economics and Business, Vienna/Austria, January, 2011. 

S15. (Guest Lecture) Business Aspects of RFID – Is RFID dead or alive?, Ubiquitous Computing 

Series at LʹUniversità della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, December 16, 2010. 

S16. (Keynote) Is RFID dead?, Asia Pacific International Conference on RFID (APICOR), Taipei, 

Taiwan, December 2, 2010. 

S17. (Paper presentation) my2cents ‐ Digitizing consumer opinions and comments about retail 

products, Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, Japan, November 30, 2010. 

S18. (Paper presentation) Accuracy of Positioning Data on Smartphones, Workshop on Location on 

the Web 2010 at the Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, Japan, November 

29, 2010. 

S19. (Invited Talk) Real World Services for Mobile Users, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, 

November 25, 2010. 

S20. (Invited Talk) Using low‐cost RFID against Counterfeit Products, University of Bamberg, 

Bamberg, November, 2010. 

S21. (Panel Moderator) Business Aspects of Phone Sensing, Moderator, PhoneSense 2010, Zurich , 

November 2, 2010. 

S22. (Keynote) RFID, Internet of Things and Mobile Phone applications, Mini Workshop on Internet 

of Things, Denki University, Tokyo, June 29, 2010. 





S23. (Guest Lecture) Towards a More Tangible Search of Information: Internet of Things, Free 

University of Bolzano, Database and Information Systems Seminar, Bolzano, 4 May, 2010. 

S24. (Paper presentation) The Design Space of Ubiquitous Product Recommendation Systems, 

(International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ 09), United 

Kingdom, 23 November, 2009. 

S25. (Paper presentation) Towards location-aware mobile web browsers, International Conference 

on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUMʹ 09), United Kingdom, 23 November, 2009. 

S26. (Panelist) 3rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI-09), Salzburg, Austria, 

November 18 - 21, 2009. 

S27. (Invited Talk) Mobile telephones as a consumer interface to services and applications, RFID ‐ 

visions and reality, Veranstaltung des Swiss Electromagnetics Research & Engineering 

Centre (SEREC), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 6 March 2009 

S28. (Panelist) Seventh Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and 

Communications (PerCom 2009), Galveston, 12 March 2009 

S29. (Invited Talk) Neue Anwendungen für das Mobilfunkgerät im Internet der Dinge. Wireless 

Communication and Information 2008, Berlin, 15 October 2008 

S30. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.: Empowering users to shape the Internet of Things, 1 st 

International Workshop on Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐ 

Blocksʹ08), In Conjunction with European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐08), 

Erlangen/Germany, October 2008 

S31. (Panel Moderator) Issues and Opportunities of Product Tampering ePrevention. 

21 st Bled eCollaboration: Overcoming Boundaries Through Multi‐Channel Interaction, 

Bled/Slovenia, 15 June, 2008 

S32. (Panel Moderator) Topic: u‐City and u‐Society. 

Ubiquitous IT Europe Forum, Bonn/Germany , 10 March 2008 

S33. (Invited Talk) Anwendungen und Auswirkungen intelligenter Objekte ‐ Eine 

betriebswirtschaftliche Perspektive. 

Experten‐Workshop im Rahmen des Projekts ʺIntelligente Projekte im wirtschaftlichen und 

privaten Alltagʺ, Wolfsburg‐AutoUni/Germany, 17 December 2007 

S34. (Keynote) RFID Security Applied: Requirements to combat counterfeit products. 

CONFERENCE ON RFID SECURITY‐07 (RFIDSec07), Malaga, 11 July, 2007 

S35. (Paper presentation) From Identification to Authentication ‐ A Review of RFID Product 

Authentication Techniques. RFIDSec 2006,Graz, 14 July, 2006 

S36. (Panelist) Prevention of Counterfeits through RFID. 

22 nd Bled Conference, Workshop: How to prepare for RFID technology to prevent 

counterfeiting, Bled/Slowenien, 5 June, 2006. 

S37. (Keynote) RFID ‐ Bridging the gap between the virtual and the real world. 

Seminar ʺRFID – RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATIONʺ, University of Fribourg, 

Fribourg/Switzerland, December 2005 

S38. (Paper presentation) Lehtonen, M., Staake, T., Michahelles, F., Fleisch, E.: From 

Identification to Authentication ‐ A Review of RFID Product Authentication Techniques, 2 nd 

Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec 06), Graz, July 2006 

S39. (Paper presentation) Flörkemeier, C.; Michahelles, F.; Lehtonen, M.; Hinske, S.: An RFID 

Tag in Every Ski – Item‐Level Tagging in the Ski Industry, Proceedings of the Pervasive 2006 

Workshop ʺPervasive Technology Applied ‐ Real‐World Experiences with RFID and Sensor 

Networksʺ at the 4 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006) , 

Dublin, Ireland, May 2006 

S40. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Crameri, E.; Schiele, B.: Design, Implementation and 

Testing of a Wearable Sensing System for Professional Downhill Skiing in Cooperation with Trainers, 

2 nd International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing (IFAWC 2005), Zurich, March 

2005. 





S41. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Wicki, R.; Schiele, B.: Less Contact: Heart‐rate detection 

without even touching the user. 8 th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers 

Conference (ISWC 2004), Arlington, November 2004 

S42. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Ahonen, T.; Schiele, B.: A‐Life ‐ Increasing Survival 

Chances in Avalanches by Wearable Sensors, 3 rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances 

and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2003), Providence, Rhode Island, May 2003, ISSN 1432‐ 

7864 

S43. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Matter, P.; Schmidt, A.; Schiele, B.: Applying Wearable 

Sensors to Avalanche Rescue: First Experiences with a Novel Avalanche Beacon, 4 th International 

Workshop on Mobile Computing ʺAssistance, Mobility, Applicationsʺ (IMC Workshop), 

Rostock, June 2003 

S44. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Sensing Opportunities for Physical 

Interaction. Workshop on Real World User Interfaces (PI03) at the 5 th International 

Symposium on Human‐Computer 

Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2003), Udine, September 2003. 

S45. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Samulowitz, M.; Schiele, B.: Detecting Context in 

Distributed Sensor Networks by Using Smart Context‐Aware Packets, International Conference 

on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2002), Karlsruhe, April 2002 

S46. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Schiele, B.: Better Rescue through Sensors. 1 st 

International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Aids (UbiCogʹ02) at the 4 th 

International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, (UbiComp 2002), Göteborg, September 

2002 

S47. (Paper presentation) Michahelles, F.; Samulowitz, M.: Smart CAPs for Smart Its ‐ Context 

Detection for Mobile Users, 3 rd International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction with 

Mobile Devices (MobileHCI 2003) at IHM‐HCI 2001, Lille, September 2001 

Invited talks at industry events 

E1. Enlisting Robots by Internet of Things, PICNIC Festival (PICNIC), Amsterdam, September, 

2012. 

E2. AC2.0 – Anti‐Counterfeiting revisited, GS1 Systemtagung, GS1 Technology Day, ETH Zurich, 

Zurich, November 8‐9, 2012. 

E3. Product Master Data Analysis, GS1 Systemtagung, GS1 Technology Day, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 

November 8‐9, 2012. 

E4. Mineralwasser = Taschenbuch!? – Studie über die Datenqualität heutiger mobiler Produkteapps, GS1 

Systemtagung, Bern, September, 2012. 

E5. The Internet of Things in Everyday Life, IoT China 2012, June, 2012. 

E6. Die Versicherung im Internet der Dinge, WGV‐ICIS, Karlsruhe, Mai, 2012. 

E7. The evolution of the Internet of Things, ITARC 2012, Stockholm, April, 2012. 

E8. Advances in Internet of Things Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, September, 2011. 

E9. User‐Generated Content im Handel: Neue Möglichkeiten der In‐Store Werbung und 

Ideengenerierung mittels sozialer Netzwerke, Innovative Technologien für den Handel 2011, St. 

Wendel, September, 2011. 

E10. What does it require to build an Internet of Things?, T‐Systems Innovation Days, Laubenheimer 

Höhe/Mainz, September, 2011. 

E11. From an Internet of Things to an Internet of People: making sense of user‐generated content, Internet 

of Things Conference China 2011, Shanghai, June, 2011. 

E12. Mobile devices ‐ present and future capabilities, UPU Postal Operations Council , 

Bern/Switzerland, May, 2011. 

E13. Data on Tag oder Data on Net: Barcode und RFID im Zeitalter des Internet der Dinge, GS1 Forum 

Intralogistics, Bern, September, 2011. 





E14. User‐Generated Content im Handel: Neue Möglichkeiten der In‐Store Werbung und 

Ideengenerierung mittels sozialer Netzwerke, Innovative Technologien für den Handel 2011, St. 

Wendel, September, 2011. 

E15. From transporting bits to selling IoT services, T‐Systems Innovation Days, Laubenheimer 

Höhe/Mainz, September, 2011. 

E16. From an Internet of Things to an Internet of People: making sense of user‐generated content, Internet 

of Things Conference China 2011, Shanghai, June, 2011. 

E17. Mobile devices ‐ present and future capabilities, UPU Postal Operations Council , 

Bern/Switzerland, May, 2011. 

E18. Promises of the IoT in retail ‐ for brands and consumers, Global Internet of Things Technology 

Conference (GIOTC), Beijing, China, November 23‐24, 2010. 

E19. The Internet of Things: How it has started and what to expect, Internet of Things Conference 

China 2010, Shanghai, 22 June, 2010. 

E20. Der vernetzte Konsument im Fokus - eine neue Strategie für den Handel?, IRL Forum of DFKI, 

St.Wendel/Saarbrücken, 5 May 2010. 

E21. Mobile Internet of Things, Nokia Research Palo Alto, USA, 11 December 2009. 

E22. Opportunities and challenges for RFID in airports, Electronic Navigation Research Institute 

(ENRI), Tokyo, 11 May 2009 

E23. RFID‐Technologie ‐ Aktueller Stand und Perspektiven. 

4. FVI‐Jahresforum: RFID in der Instandhaltung, Düsseldorf, 6 November, 2008. 

E24. Linking the internet of things to the mobile phone. 

EPC Technology Forum, 3 April, 2008, Málaga/Spain 

E25. Erkennung und Verhinderung von Produktfälschungen – Lösungsansätze mit RFID, Advanced 

Pharma Packaging, Berlin, 27 February, 2008 

E26. Opportunities for fighting counterfeit products with RFID technology. 

On RFID: The Next Step to the Internet of Things, Lisbon/Portugal, 15. November, 2007 

E27. Emerging Things‐to‐Things Opportunities in Europe, People‐to‐Things‐to‐Things. Networked 

meeting of Motorola (internal), 12 September, 2007. 

E28. NFC and EPC standards for RFID. GS1 Mobile Commerce Group, Paris, 19 June, 2007 

E29. Combating counterfeit products with RFID. Odette RFID Seminar, Göteburg, 25 April, 2007 

E30. Where we are on counterfeit protection. Odette Anti‐Counterfeiting Meeting, Paris, 27 

February, 2007 

E31. Neue Technologien und Einfluss auf das IT Management. Arbeitskreis IT Management, Vom 

Cost Center zum Business Enabler, Dec 11, 2006, Zurich 

E32. (Invited Talk) RFID/EPC and the Future – An AUTO ID Labs Perspective. Johnson & Johnson 

RFID/EPC EMEA Workshop, Paris, 4 December, 2006 

E33. Future research opportunities on RFID. IST Helsinki Event ‐ Session:RFID ‐ Enabler of the 

Ubiquitous Information Society, Helsinki, 23 November, 2006 

E34. (Panelist) Strategies for Setting Up an RFID Network that Scales: Application Research. RFID 

Journal Live Europe 2006, October 27, 2006, Amsterdam 

E35. (Panel Moderator) Auto‐ID Labs Research. 

EPCglobal US Conference, Los Angeles/USA, 17 October, 2006 

E36. Removing technical, economic and operational barriers to RFID deployment in Europe 

RFID/EPCglobal in Europe, Düsseldorf, 8 September, 2006 

E37. RFID – Impulse für die Kommisionierung: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen. 21. Kommissioniertag bei 

Sika Schweiz AG, Birr/Switzerland, 15 June, 2006 

E38. RFID – Open and interoperable environment. RFID Interoperability Workshop, Brussels, 1 June, 

2006 

E39. Fälschungssicherheit bei Arzneimitteln: Chancen durch RFID. EAN‐Gesundheitstagung, 

Cologne, 10 May , 2006 

E40. RFID ‐ Chances, Risks, and Reality. Odette Conference, Paris/France, 14 November, 2005 





E41. The Internet of Things. University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, 

Olten/Switzerland, 12 October, 2005 

E42. Micro‐Processors supporting Furniture Assembly. International Furniture Days (Möbeltage), 

German Society for Wood Research (DGFH), Dresden, 12 May, 2004 

E43. New Ways in Avalanche Companion Rescue: Detecting Life in Snow with Radar. Medical 

Commission of IKAR Annual Meeting, Malbun/Liechtenstein, 16. April, 2004 

E44. Wearable Computer as Doctorʹs Assistant: Design Considerations. UMIT‐Kolloquium, Innsbruck, 

18 February, 2004 

E45. Better Avalanche Rescue through Sensors Colloquium at Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and 

Avalanche Research, Davos/Switzerland, 6 March, 2003 

E46. Applying Sensors to Avalanche Rescue. Medical Commission of IKAR Annual Conference, 

Coylumbridge/Scottland, October 4, 2003 

Media relations 

G1. IoT Interview Series: 8 questions with Dr Florian Michahelles, Postscapes.com, December 

2012. 

G2. quoted in ʺInternet of Thingsʺ, Tessel Renzenbrink, page 70‐72, Volume 38: number 432, 

Elektor. December 2012, Elektor International Media, London, UK. 

G3. quoted in ʺOhne Daten kein Kaufʺ, GS1 network – das Magazin für Standards, Logistik, 

Supply‐ und Demand‐Management, 4/2012, by Katharina Birk 

G4. quoted in ʺTravel applications connect the dotsʺ, SwissInfo, November 13, 11:00 am | By 

Scott Capper. 

G5. quoted in ʺChina’s influence growing on the “Internet of Thingsʺ, Morning Whistle, October 

25, 12:47 pm | By Eric Min. 

G6. quoted in ʺChina Pushes the ‘Internet of Things’ʺ, Science, Vol. 336 no. 6086 p. 1223, 8 June 

2012. 

G7. Appearance as Internet of Things expert in Die Angst hat 1000 Augen ‐ Zehn Jahre nach 9/11: 

Städte im Zeichen des Terrors, Film von Dagmar Brendecke und Walter Brun, Reihe 

Sternstunde Kunst Schweizer Fernsehen SF1, September 2011. 

G8. Report about AppAware in AppAware Best Apps for Android Review– Discover, install, tag, and 

share the hottest Android apps using the wisdom of the crowd, PC World, Brent W. Hopkins, Jan 

12, 2011 

G9. Report about AppAware in ETH Zürich macht den Android Market ʺsozialʺ, 

ComputerWoche, Thomas Cloer , July 8, 2010 

G10. quoted in ʺAuto-ID: building an interactive platform for the Internet of Thingsʺ, 

rfidchina.org, June 23, 2010. 

G11. quoted in ʺEl Gobierno chino impulsa el Internet de las cosas con un Plan Nacionalʺ, El 

Mundo, July 12, 2010. 

G12. quoted in ʺChinaʹ s ʹ Internet Of Thingsʹ To Become Semantic Web Superpower?ʺ, Ron 

Callari, InventorSpot.com, July 12, 2010. 

G13. “My2cents ‐ Whatʹs your opinion?”, http://www.androidpit.com, ´May 6, 2010 

G14. “AppAware: Real time application discovery for Android”, http://androidandme.com, 

March 12, 2010 

G15. ʺWenn Daten und Wirklichkeit verschmelzenʺ, Roger Zedi/Reto Knobel, Tagesanzeiger, 

March 18, 2010 

G16. Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst, Roger Zedi, Tagesanzeiger, 22.3.2010 

G17. RFID: The future begins now!, Audiovisual Service of the European Commission, EUtube, 19 

February 2008 

G18. BRIDGE Project Members Press Ahead. RFID Journal, 27 October, 2006 

G19. Europe Embraces EPC—Slowly, Elizabeth Wasserman, RFID Journal, September/October 2006, 

p. 19‐27 





G20. Skifahrer‐Sensorik, DRS3 (Swiss national Radio). 12 November, 2005 

G21. A computer as ski instructor. ETHLife international (ETH news magazin), 21 October, 2005 

G22. Neues Suchgerät für Verschüttete. MTW (Science Magazin) SF1 (Swiss national TV), 30 

January, 2003 

G23. Lebensfunken aus dem Schnee. Computerworld, 10. Januar 2003 

G24. Der mit dem Möbel spricht, Future Trend (Science Magazin), RTL (German commercial TV), 6 

January, 2003 

G25. El artículo A‐Life permite encontrarse el uno al otro bajo la nieve (Spanish), Xtio.com, 30 January, 

2002 

G26. Valanghe, dalla Svizzera il salvavita per sciatori (Italian). Corriere Della Sera, 28 December, 2002 

G27. Un nouveau matériel pour les victimes dʹavalanche (French). Ice‐Fall.com, 25 December, 2002 

G28. Hi Tech, Wireless Help for Climbers. Slashdot, 25 December, 2002 

G29. The device A‐Life helps to find each other under the snow (Russian), Membrana Internet Journal, 

25. December, 2002 

G30. After the Fall: Help for Climbers. Wired News, 24 December, 2002 

G31. After the Fall: Help for Climbers (Japanese). Hotwired.co.jp, 24 December, 2002 

G32. Idiotensicherer Möbelzusammenbau, MTW (Science Magazin), SF1 (Swiss national TV), 19 

September, 2002 





Projects and Third Party funds 

10/2012‐10/2014: SenseWell 

- Type: SNSF‐funded Nano‐Tera project 

- Topic: develop a personalized persuasive systems to support sustained behavioral 

improvements for generating context‐aware recommendations 

- Responsibility: negotiations during acquisition, project manager at ETH Zurich, coordination 

of prototype developments, research and research strategy 

- Project Partners: EPFL 

- applied third‐party funds: 100kCHF (2 years) – transferable: Money Follows Researcher 

03/2012‐03/2015: Pathmate 

- Type: SNSF‐Project 

- Topic: develop a shopping assistant to support and educate families about healthy food as 

part of a therapy program for obese children 



- Project Partners: University of St. Gallen, Children Hospital St. Gallen 

- applied third‐party funds: 100kCHF – transferable: Money Follows Researcher 

09/2012‐04/2013: Schnäggfinder 

- Type: Industry‐funded project 

- Topic: develop a mobile to support marketing of a new product launch 



- Project Partners: Blattwerk Convenience Food AG 

- applied third‐party funds: 100kCHF – transferable industry funds 

since 06/205: Auto‐ID Labs 


- Topic: Architecting the Internet of Things, Consumer Retail Services, Master‐data 

management 

- Responsibility: coordination of the research agenda of the seven labs, management of the 

relationship with GS1, whitepapers, knowledge transfer to industry and stakeholders 

- Project Partners: GS1, MIT, Univ. of Cambridge, Fudan University, KAIST, Keio University, 

Univ. of Adelaide 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 300kUSD/year, partially transferable based on negotiations 

2011‐2012: Open Code Transfer ‐ Open Innovation mechanism for technology transfer 

- Type: Polish-Swiss Research Framework 

- Topic: supporting technology transfer in universities 

- Responsibility: external expert 

- Partner: Poznan University of Technology (Politechnika Poznańska) 

- acquired third‐party funds: 20.000 CHF (9 months) 

2009‐2010: Kiosk-der-Zukunft 


- Topic: applying social networks to small retail environments 

- Role: researcher, project manager 

- Partner: Valora AG (Betreiber der Kioske in der Schweiz) 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 167000 CHF 

- supervised staff: 1 Ph.D. student 





2009‐2012: Smart Products 

- Type: EU‐funded IP‐Project 

- Topic: extension of physical products by information capturing and processing capabilities, 

creation of prototypes and business evaluation 

- Project partners: SAP, Fiat, EADS, Philips, Open University, Sheffield University, TU 

Darmstadt, VTT, ETH Zürich 

- Responsibilities: negotiations during acquisition, project manager at ETH Zurich, coordination 


- Acquired third‐party funds: 221.000 € (over 3 years) 


2007‐2008: Adoption of new technologies in the automobile industry 

- Type: Industry‐funded consortial project 

- Topic: adoption of new technologies in the car, analysis of technological capabilities vs. needs 

and applications 

- Project partner: BMW Forschung und Technik 

- Responsibilities: negotiations during acquisition, project definition, composition of contract, 

research strategy, consulting 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 20.000 € (over 1 year, approx. 2 months full‐time) 

- supervised staff: 1 Ph.D. student (working part‐time on this project) 

2006‐2007: Connecting the Mobile Phone to the Internet of Things 


- Topic: Infrastructure development for connecting phones to the EPC network, business 

framework analysis, prototype developments 

- Project partner: Nokia Research (Helsinki and Lausanne) 

- Responsibilities: negotiations during acquisition, project definition, composition of contract, 

- coordination of prototype developments, research and research strategy 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 400.000 CHF (over 2 years) 

- supervised staff: 3 Ph.D. students (working part‐time on this project) 

2006 ‐ 2009: Building Radio Frequency IDentification for the Global Environment (BRIDGE) 

- Type: EU‐funded IP‐Project 

- Topic: global infrastructure development for supply‐chains in europe, focus on security and 

anti‐counterfeiting, research on adoption 

- Research partners: among others Carrefour, Nestlé, Sony, GS1, University of Cambridge, TU 

Graz (31 partners in total) 

- Responsibilities: project manager at ETH Zurich, coordination of prototype developments, 

research and research strategy 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 537.000 € (over 3 years) 

- supervised staff: 2.5 Ph.D. students 

2006 ‐ 2009: Stop Tampering of Products (SToP) 

- Type: EU‐funded STREP‐Project 

- Topic: elicitation of RFID‐based solutions to combat counterfeiting in various industries 

- Research partners: SAP, Novartis, Richemont, Airbus, Bundesdruckerei, Spacecode, Oria 

Computers 

- Responsibilities: project manager at ETH Zurich, coordination of prototype developments, 

research and research strategy 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 495.000 € (over 2,5 years) 

- supervised staff: 2 Ph.D. students (at University of St. Gallen) 





2006: RFID solutions for the ski industry 


- Topic: requirements analysis , design of an RFID infrastructure for implementing ski rental 

- Project partner: Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) 

- Responsibilities: project manager, negotiations during acquisition, project definition, 

composition of contract, coordination of work 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 18.500 € (over 1 year, approx. 2 months full‐time) 


2005 ‐ 2006: Special Interest Group “Anti‐Counterfeiting” 


- Topic: requirements analysis of the extend of anti‐counterfeiting at the various industrial 

partners 

- Project partners: Airbus, Bundesdruckerei, Gillette, Infineon Technologies, Montblanc, SAP, 

Swarovski, Swiss Re 

- Responsibilities: project manager, coordination of deliverables, consulting, organization of 

meetings 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 120.000 CHF (1 year) 

- supervised staff: 1 Ph.D. student (at University of St. Gallen) 

Since 09/2006: SAP Research Lab ETH Zürich 

- Type: Education of PhD Students, 50% SAP‐, 50%‐ETH funded 

- Topic: smart items research, software infrastructure for internet of things 

- Project partner: SAP AG (Switzerland) 

- Responsibilities: deputy project manager and budget officer, supervision of PhD students 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 480.000 CHF (per annum) 


Since 06/2005: Auto‐ID Labs Network 

- Type: Industry‐funded research project 

- Topic: development of standards for RFID, software development, future of internet of things, 

application‐oriented research, anti‐counterfeiting, retail, automotive 

- Project partners: GS1, EPCglobal Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University 

of Cambridge, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Fudan 

University, Keio University, University of Adelaide 

- Responsibilities: deputy manager, and leading general coordinator of the international Auto‐ 

ID Lab network (Fields of action: Management, Strategy and Marketing), organization of 

meetings, composition of strategy white papers, negotiations with EPCglobal concerning 

funding 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 200.000 US$ (per annum) 






2001 ‐ 2003: European Project “Smart‐Its” 

- Type: EU‐funded research project 

- Topic: development of methods and tools for ubiquitous computing. The specific object of the 

project was to ease prototypical integration of processing, sensing, and communication into 

everyday objects. 

- Project partners: Lancaster University (UK); ETH Zürich (Switzerland); TecO, Uni Karlsruhe; 

VTT (Finland); PLAY, Interactive Institute, Göteborg 

- Responsibilities: collaboration in the project acquisition phase, concept and implementation of 

prototypes using microcontrollers, hardware development, software development. 

- Acquired third‐party funds: 350.000 € (over 2,5 years) 

- supervised staff: 3 student assistants (“Hiwis”) 





Professional Services for the Scientific Community 

Reviewer for Research Foundations and Committees 

- Member of the Selection Committee for the new ICT public research institute in Cantabria, 

European Science Foundation, Spain 

- External reviewer for the search committee of a junior professorship at University of Munich 

- FFG, Austria 

Scientific Membership: 

- Member of GI German Informatics Society 

- Assoziiertes Mitglied im Beirat der Universitätsprofessor(inn)en (GIBU) 

- Member of Deutscher Hochschulverband (DHV) 

- Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 

Reviewer for Journals 

- International Journal of Human‐Computer Studies, Elsevier, 2012 (Reviewer) 

- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2012. 

- IEEE Computer, 2012. 

- Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), 2012. 

- Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2012. 

- British Journal of Mathematics & Computer Science, 2012. 

- The ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2012 

- Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal, Elsevier (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) 

- Telecommunications Policy (2012) 

- IEEE Pervasive Computing (2011, 2012) 

- IEEE Communications Letters (2011) 

- Electronic Markets (2011, 2012) 

- IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011. 

- Sensors - Open Access Journal, MDPI (2010) 

- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (2010) 

- IEEE Wireless Communications (2010) 

- International Journal of Communication Systems (2009) 

- Business Process Management Journal (2009) 

- International Journal of RF Technologies (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) 

- Information Systems Frontiers ‐ A Journal of Research and Innovation (2009) 

- International Journal on Computational Science and Engineering (2008) 

Jury member of Award Committees 

- RFID Journal Awards 2011, 2012, 2013 ‐ Showcasing the best of the RFID Industry, Category 

Most Innovative Use of RFID 

- NFC Forum Global Competition (2009) 

- (Judge of PhD Forum) 7 th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and 

Communications (PerCom 2009), Galveston, March, 2009 

- RFID Award, OPAL Associates Holding AG, (2008) 

- NFC Forum Global Competition (2008) 

Editorships / Memberships in Organizational Committees 

- ROBIOT: Robots Meet Internet of Things, Workshop at PICNIC12, Amsterdam, September, 

2012 (Workshop Co‐Organizer) 





- Workshop Co‐Chair, Workshop on ʺSocial networks for people and thingsʺ (SoNePT) at 

Mensch & Computer 2012, Konstanz, Germany, September, 2012. 

- Workshop Co‐Chair, 3rd workshop on Research in the large at MobileHCI 2012, San 

Francisco, September 2012. 

- General Chair, 5 th International Workshop on Near‐field Communication (NFC2013),Zurich, 

February, 2013. 

- Program Co-Chair, Internet of Things 2012 Conference (IoT2012), Shanghai, November, 2012. 

- Program Co-Chair, Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2012 Conference (MuM2012), Essen, 

December, 2012. 

- Program Co-Chair, Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous 

Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2011), Copenhagen, December, 

2011. 

- Workshop Chair, 4th IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC12), 

Helsinki, March 2012 

- Workshop Chair, 2 nd Workshop on Context Aware Intelligent Assistance (CAIA 2011), at the 

34th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2011), October, 2011 Berlin, 

Germany 

- Workshop Co‐Chair, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 

(ISMAR2011), Basel, October 2011. 

- Workshop on Mobile Interaction in Retail Environments (MIRE), August 30, 2011, 

Stockholm/Sweden. (co‐organizer) 

- International Journal of RF Technologies, 2011. (Member of the editorial board) 

- Workshop Chair, 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC11), 

Hagenberg, May 2011 

- Workshop Chair, Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation 

(CaRR2011), at the IUI 2011 Workshop Proposal, ACM International Conference on Intelligent 

User Interfaces (IUI2011), Palo Alto, February, 2011 

- Workshop Chair, Workshop on Context Aware Intelligent Assistance (CAIA 2010), at the 33th 

Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2010), September 21–24, 2010 Karlsruhe, 

Germany 

- Program Co-Chair, Internet of Things 2010 Conference (IoT2010), Tokyo, November 30 - 

December 1, 2010. 

- Workshop Chair, What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen?, Workshop at the 8 th 

Conference of Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, May, 2010 

- Workshop Chair, 2 nd IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC10), 

Monaco, May 2010 

- Guest Editor, Special Track “The Internet of Things”, IEEE Internet Computing, 2009 

- Publicity Co‐Chair, 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), 

Sydney, 2008 

- Organizing Commitee, Workshop Chair, Demo Chair, 1 st International Conference on the 

Internet of Things (IoT 2008), Zurich, 2008 

- Workshop Chair “Pervasive RFID/NFC Technologies and Applications (PerTec)”, IEEE 

PerCom, New York, 19 March, 2007 

- Workshop Chair, Kontextbewusste und Ubiquitäre Anwendungen im Logistiksektor an der 

37. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik 2007, Bremen, 2007 

- Track Chair, Auto‐ID Labs Research and Strategy track, EPCglobal US Conference, Los 

Angeles, 2006 

- Workshop Chair, Pervasive Technology Applied Real‐World Experiences with RFID and 

Sensor Network (PTA2006) at 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing 

(Pervasive 2008), Dublin, 2006 

- Publication Chair, Ubicomp 2006, September 2006, Irvine/USA 





- Co‐Organisator, Illicit Trade Symposium, Zürich, 15 November, 2005 

Program Committee Member and Reviewer 

- Mensch & Computer 2013 , Bremen, Germany, September, 2013. (technical program 

committee member) 

- European Conference on Smart Objects, Systems and Technologies (Smart SysTech), Erlangen, 

June, 2013. (technical program committee member) 

- IEEE RFID 2013, The Seventh IEEE International Conference on RFID, April 30, 2013, Orlando, 

USA. (technical program committee member) 

- SIGGRAPH Mobile @ SIGGRAPH 2013, Anaheim, July, 2013. (juror) 

- International Workshop on Pervasive Internet of Things and Smart Cities (PITSaC‐2013), in 

conjunction with AINA‐2013, Barcelona, March 2013. (technical program committee member) 

- The 15th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Turku/Finland, August 

13‐15, 2013. (technical program committee member) 

- 4th Augmented Human International Conference (Augmented Human 2013), Stuttgart, 

March, 2013. (member of the program committee) 

- ACM 2012 Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information 

Technology (CHI 2013), Paris, France, April/May 2013. (Reviewer) 

- 2nd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 2013), Bay Area, June, 2013. 

(member of the program committee) 

- Internet of Things Track 2013 at IEEE GLOBECOM, Atlanta, December, 2013 . (member of the 

program committee) 

- The 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Computing (PerHot) at 

IEEE PerCom, San Diego/USA, March, 2013. (member of the program committee) 

- The Second International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 

2013), Rome/Italy, June, 2013. (member of the program committee) 

- 3rd International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication 

Systems (PECCS 2013), Barcelona, Spain, February, 2013. (member of the program committee) 

- 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS 2013), at PECSS 2013 in 

Barcelona, Spain, February, 2013. (member of the program committee) 

- European Conference on Smart Objects, Systems and Technologies (Smart SysTech), Munich, 

June, 2012. (member of the program committee) 

- 7th Nordic Conference on Human‐Computer Interaction (NordiCHI 2012),Copenhagen, 

Denmark, October, 2012 (reviewer) 

- International Workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things (DOME‐IoT 

2012) in conjunction with Ubicomp 2012, Pittsburgh, USA, September, 2012. (member of the 

program committee) 

- 2nd Cyber‐Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA 2012) in conjunction with 

RTCSA 2012, Seoul, Korea, August, 2012. 

- ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2012), New Castle, UK, June, 2012. 

- The 16th annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2012), New 

Castle, UK, June, 2012. 

- NOKIA Mobile Data Challenge (MDC), in conjunction with Pervasive 2012, 2012. 

- The First International Workshop on Extending Seamlessly to the Internet of Things (esIoT‐ 

2012) in conjunction with IMIS 2012, Palermo, Italy, July, 2012. 

- ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), Amsterdam, The 

Netherlands, September 3‐6, 2012. 

- Third international workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2012), New Castle, June, 2012. 

- The 2012 FTRA International Conference on Advanced IT, engineering and Management, 

(FTRA AIM 2012), Seoul, Korea, 6‐8 February 

- The 14th International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), Singapore, August, 2012. 





- The Ninth International Conference of Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2012) to be held at 

Antwerp, Belgium from June 11 to 14, 2012. (technical program committee member) 

- The Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, (Pervasive 2012), New Castle, 

June, 2012. 

- IEEE RFID 2012, Sixth IEEE International Conference on RFID, April 3‐5, 2012, Orlando, USA. 

- Telecommunications Policy (IJCS), Elsevier 

- International EURASIP RFID Workshop 2012, Torino, Italy, Sept 28‐29, 2012. 

- The 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing UbiComp 2012 (UbiComp 

2012), Pittsburgh/USA, September 2012. 

- ACM 2012 Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information 

Technology (CHI 2012), Austin, USA, May 2012. 

- The First International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies (SMART 

2012), Stuttgart/ Germany, May 27 ‐ June 1, 2012. 

- Mensch & Computer 2012 , Konstanz, Germany, September, 2012 

- The 8th Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy 2012 (RFIDsec 2012), Nijmegen, 

Netherlands, July, 2012. 

- 1st International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS 2012), at IEEE PerCom 2012 

in Lugano, Switzerland, March, 2012. 

- The Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012), New Castle, 

June, 2012. 

- 1st International IEEE Workshop on Hot Topics in Pervasive Computing (PerHot 2011), at 

IEEE PerCom 2012 in Lugano, Switzerland, March, 2012. 

- The 7th International Symposium on Wireless sensor network Technologies and Applications 

for Smart Space (WTA 2011), Jeju, Korea, December 12‐15, 2011. Second Workshop on 

Ubiquitous Computing and Networks (UbiCoNet), Houston, December, 2011. 

- The Impact of Virtual, Remote and Real Logistics Labs (ImViReLL’12), Bremen, February, 

2012. 

- Second International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and 

Communication Systems (PECCS 2012), Rome, Italy, February, 2012. 

- The 1st International Workshop on Cyber‐Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications 

(CPSNA), Toyama, August, 2011. 

- 7th Conference of Mobile and Ubiquitous Informationsystems (MMS), Braunschweig, 

Germany, February/March, 2012. 

- International Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for the Internet of Things 

(NOMe‐IoT 2011), Beijing, China, September 18, 2011 

- The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS), Niagara 

Falls, Ontario, Sep 19 ‐21, 2011 

- 10th International Conference on Entertainment Computing (ICEC 2011), Vancouver/Canada, 

October 5 – 8, 2011 

- MobileHCI 2011, 13th International Conference on Human‐Computer Interaction, Stockholm, 

August 30 ‐ September 2. 

- The Eight International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), San Francisco, 

June, 2011. (member of the Joint Program Committee for the poster, demonstration, and video 

sessions of Pervasive 2011) 

- International Workshop on Business Applications of Social Network Analysis and 

Mining(BASNAMʹ2011), In conjunction with the 2011 International Conference on Advances 

in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, July 25, 2011 

- The Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous 

Computing (IMIS‐2011), Korean Bible University (KBU), Seoul, Korea, June, 2011. 

- International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC2011), Liverpool, UK, August, 2011 

- 7th European Workshop on Smart Objects: Systems, Technologies and Applications 





(RFID SysTech 2011), May, 2011. 

- 4th Pervasive Advertising Workshop, at Pervasive 2011, San Francisco, June, 2011. 

- Second international workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011), San Francisco, June, 2011.) 

- 6. Konferenz Mobile und Ubiquitäre Informationssysteme (MMS 2011), Kaiserslautern, 

Germany, February, 2011. 

- The 1st FTRA International Workshop on Convergence Security in Pervasive Environments 

(IWCS 2011), Crete, Greece, June, 2011. 

- First International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication 

Systems (PECCS 2011), Algarve, Portugal, March, 2011. 

- Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec2011), Amherst/USA, June, 2011. 

- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2011), Vancouver, May 7‐12, 

2011 

- 9th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2011), Seattle, June, 2010 

- Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2011), Madeira, 2011. 

- Fifth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous 

- Computing (IMIS-2011), Track ʺSmartphone Applications for UPCʺ, Seoul/Korea, June 2011 

- Wirtschaftsinformatik 2010, Zurich/Switzerland 

- The 2010 International Workshop on Smartphone Applications and Services (Smartphone 

2010) Gwangju, Korea, December 9-11, 2010. (member of the program committee) 

- The 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2010), 

Limassol, Cyprus, 1st - 3rd December, 2010. 

- The 14th annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2010), Seoul, 

Korea, October, 2010. 

- 1st International Workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things (DOME-IoT 

2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 Sept 2010. (member of the program committee) 

- The 1st International Conference on Pervasive Networked Services and Internet of Things 

(PNSIOT 2010), Chongqing, China, 12-14 July 2010. 

- MobileHCI 2010, International Conference Series on Human Computer Interaction with 

Mobile Devices and Services, September, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal. 

- Interdisziplinäre Fachtagung Mensch & Computer 2010, Duisburg, September 2010 

- Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE 

- Pervasive Advertising and Shopping 2010 Workshop, at Pervasive 2010, Helsinki, May 17. 

- 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy 

Computing (SUTC2010), Newport Beach, June 7-9, 2010. 

- IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technology and Applications 2010 (RFIDTA2010), 

Guangzhou, China, June 17-19, 2010. 

- Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDSec2010), June, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey 

- 3 rd European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, Salzburg, November 2009 

- 5 th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES 2009 – The 

International Dependability Conference”), Krakow, February 2010 

- ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2010), Atlanta, April 2010 

- 2 nd IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC10), Monaco, Mai 2010 

- Pervasive Advertising workshop an der 39. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik 2009, 

Lübeck, Germany, September, 2009. 

- 8 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2010), Helsinki, May, 2010 

- 2 nd Workshop on Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐Blocksʹ 09), In 

Conjunction with European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐09), November 2009, 

Salzburg/Austria 

- ʺPervasive Technologies and Emerging Applicationsʺ track, 7 th IEEE Consumer 

Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC10), Las Vegas, 2010 

- 3 rd IEEE International Conference on RFID, Orlando, 2009 





- 7 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2009), Nara, 2009 

- 27 th ACM Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information 

Technology (CHI 2009) , Boston, 2009 

- 1 st International Workshop on Integrating the Edge with the Enterprise for Planning and 

Management at WETICE, Groningen, 2009 

- 4 th IEEE European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context (EuroSSC 2009), Guildford, 2009 

- 11 th International Conference Series on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices 

and Services (MobileHCI 2009), Bonn, 2009 

- ʺPervasive Technologies and Emerging Applicationsʺ track, 6 th Annual IEEE Consumer 

Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009), Las Vegas, 2009 

- 1 st IEEE International Workshop on Near Field Communication (NFC09) at NFC Congress 

2009, Hagenberg, 2009 

- 4 th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2009 ), Fukuoka, 

2009 

- 1 st International Workshop on Contactless Security (CLESSec) at ARES 2009, Fukoka, 2009 

- 9. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI2009), Vienna, 2009 

- 10 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008), Seoul, 2008 

- 2 nd International Workshop on Design and Integration Principles for Smart Objects (DIPSO) at 

the 10 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2008), Seoul, 2008. 

- 6 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2008), Sydney, 2008 

- 3 rd International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC 2008), Santorini, 2008 

- 6 th IEEE Pervasive Computing and Communication (Percom 2008), Hong Kong, 2008 

- Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐Blocksʹ 08) at the European 

Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI‐08), Erlangen, 2008 

- 2 nd International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (RFID2008), Budapest, 2008 

- 1 st International Workshop on RFID Security and Privacy (RISC09) at the 3rd International 

Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2008), Barcelona, 2008 

- 1 st International Workshop on RFID Data Management, Cancun, 2008 

- 1 st International EURASIP Workshop on RFID Technology (RFID 2007), Vienna, 2007 

- 1 st International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2008), Zurich, 2008 

- 9 th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Innsbruck, 2007 

- 4 th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, 

Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS 2007), Philadelphia, 2007 

- EU RFID Forum and 4th RFID Academic Convocation, Brussels, 2007 

- Workshop “Mobile & Emerging Technologies for ISʺ at the 15 th European Conference on 

Information Systems (ECIS), St. Gallen, 2007 

- 6 th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC 2007), 

Toronto, 2007 

- 4 th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006), Dublin, 2006 

- 1 st RFID Academic Convocation, MIT Cambridge, 2006 





Education 

Lectures (Masters) 

- Information Management, ETH Zürich, HS 2012 (Grundvorlesung, Masterstudiengang) 

- Business Aspects of the Internet of Things, ETH Zürich, FS 2013 






Exercises 

- Introduction into Computer Science I, ETH Zurich, WS 2003/04 

- Introduction into Computer Science I, ETH Zürich, WS 2002/03 

- Introduction into Computer Science I, ETH Zürich, WS 2001/02 

- Introduction into Computer Science III, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München, WS 1999/00 



Guest Lectures 

V1. Ubiquitous Computing, Modul des MTEC Blockkurses für die Teilnehmer des Studiengangs 

MAS Security Policy and Crisis Management, Februar, 2013. 

V2. Information Management, Modul des MTEC Blockkurses für die Teilnehmer des Studiengangs 

MBA SCM, Januar, 2013. 

V3. Ubiquitous Computing, Modul des MTEC Blockkurses für die Teilnehmer des Studiengangs 

MAS Security Policy and Crisis Management, Februar, 2012. 

V4. Information Management, Modul des MTEC Blockkurses für die Teilnehmer des Studiengangs 

MBA SCM, Januar, 2012. 

V5. Research Advances of Internet of Things, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, September 

20, 2011. 

V6. Business Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing: Internet of Things, Ubiquitous Computing at 

Technische Universität München, Munich, June 6, 2011. 

V7. Business Aspects of RFID – Is RFID dead or alive?, Ubiquitous Computing Series at LʹUniversità 

della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, December 16, 2010. 

V8. Towards an Internet of Things for everyone, Fudan University, Seminar of Advanced Topics for 

Electrical Engineers, Shanghai, June 24, 2010 

V9. Towards a More Tangible Search of Information: Internet of Things, Free University of Bolzano, 

Database and Information Systems Seminar, Bolzano, May, 2010 

V10. Web 2.0 – When Users Add Value, Lecture “Management Information Systems”, ETH Zurich, 2 

December, 2008 

V11. RFID ‐ Technical Principles and Operational Impact, Vorlesung “Pervasive Computing”, 

Universität Duisburg‐Essen, 11 June, 2008 

V12. Proactive Furniture Assembly, Seminar ʺDisappearing Computerʺ, Ludwig‐Maximilians‐ 

Universität Munich, 5 May, 2003 

Courses outside the university field 

I1. Der RFID-Management Expert - Intensivseminar mit Zertifikat, 2-day intensive seminar 

ʺRFIDManagement Expertʺ with certification of the Auto ID-Labs St. Gallen as part of the 

professional training programm of the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), Neuss, 

17‐18 Mai, 2011 (concept, content, execution) 





I2. Der RFID-Management Expert - Intensivseminar mit Zertifikat, 2-day intensive seminar 

ʺRFIDManagement Expertʺ with certification of the Auto ID-Labs St. Gallen as part of the 

professional training programm of the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), Neuss, 

16-27 März, 2010 (concept, content, execution) 

I3. Der RFID‐Management Expert ‐ Intensivseminar mit Zertifikat, 2‐day intensive seminar ʺRFID 

Management Expertʺ with certification of the Auto ID‐Labs St. Gallen as part of the 

professional training programm of the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), 

Tönisvorst‐Düsseldorf, 25‐26 November, 2008 (concept, content, execution) 

I4. EPC Basic Training, one day course at EPC Europe Conference/RFID Journal Live! Event, 

Prague, 5 November, 2008. (lecturer) 



professional training programm of the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), Cologne‐ 

Neuss, 23‐24 September, 2008 (concept, content, execution) 

I6. Technical and Business EPC Training, European Adoption Programme Interest Group Meeting 

von EPCglobal, Kopenhagen, 8‐10 June, 2008. (lecturer) 



professional training programm of the European EPC Competence Center (EECC), Cologne‐ 

Troisdorf, 20‐21 May, 2008 (concept, content, execution) 

I8. Der zertifizierte RFID‐Manager ‐ Intensivseminar mit qualifiziertem Abschluss, 2‐day RFID 

industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Munich, 8‐9 April, 2008 (concept, content, 

execution) 



professional training programm of the EPC Competence Center (EECC), Cologne‐Neuss, 22‐ 

23 January, 2008 (concept, content, execution) 

I10. Intensivkurs: RFID im Gesundheitswesen, 2‐day RFID course as elective course of the execute 

training in eHealthcare of Campus eHealthcare, Zurich, 8‐9 November, 2007 (concept, 

content, execution) 


industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Stuttgart, 16‐17 October, 2007 (concept, 


I12. RFID/EPC‐Seminar, 2‐day RFID‐course for decision makers in supply‐chains in cooperation 

with GS1 Switzerland, Berne, 2‐3 November, 2006 (concept, content, execution) 


industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Hamburg, 1‐2 March, 2007 (concept, 



industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Frankfurt, 30‐31 January, 2007 (concept, 



industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Stuttgart, 9‐10 October, 2006 (concept, 



industry course in cooperation with Euroforum, Düsseldorf, 29‐30 August, 2006 (concept, 


I17. Intensivkurs: RFID im Gesundheitswesen, 2‐day RFID course as elective course of the execute 

training in eHealthcare of Campus eHealthcare, Zurich, 29‐30 June, 2006 (concept, content, 

execution) 





Completed PhD Theses under my Assistance 

- Erica Dubach (2011): Applications and Implications of User‐Generated Content in Retail, 

Dissertation, ETH Zurich: Department of Management, Technology and Economics, No 19876. 

Erica Dubach is working as a free‐lance consultant in the area of Social Media. 

- Felix von Reischach (2010): Product reviews via mobile phone, Dissertation, ETH Zurich: 

Department of Management, Technology and Economics, No. 19008. 

Felix von Reischach is Senior Researcher at SAP and has been awarded as an SAP High 

Potential. 

- Mikko Lehtonen (2009): How to Secure Supply Chains Against Counterfeit Products Using Low- 

Cost RFID. Dissertation, ETH Zurich: Department of Management, Technology and 

Economics, No. 18762. 

Mikko Lehtonen is a senior consultant at Oliver Wymann. 

- Christian Metzger (2008): High fidelity shelf stock monitoring ‐ a framework for retail replenishment 

optimization. Dissertation, ETH Zurich: Departement of Management, Technology and 

Economics in Munich, No. 17672. 

Christian Metzger is now a Senior Manager of Operations at SwissVBS in Toronto 

- Patrick Schmitt (2008): Securing Adoption und Diffusion neuer Technologien am Beispiel der 

Radiofrequenz‐Identifikation (RFID) . Dissertation, ETH Zurich: Departement of Management, 

Patrick Schmitt is now a chief executive assistant at INA‐Schaeffler in Herzogenaurach 

On‐going Theses under my Assistance 

ETH Zurich: As deputy director of Information Management I currently assist Prof. Fleisch in the 

supervision of the following 5 PhD Students on topics related to RFID and Internet of Things (PhD 

working titles see below). 

- Stephan Karpischek: Data quality of product master data 

- Irena Pletikosa: Value of social networks for retail brands 

- Runhua Xu: Effectiveness of marketing new product launches through mobile apps 

- Xuan Zhang: Detection of business leeds in public tweets 

- Andrea Girardello: Mobile Social Network Services and Applications (on sabbatical for start‐up) 

- Andreas Budde: Evaluation of user incentives for increasing adoption of mobile applications (on 

sabbatical for start‐up) 

Supervised Master‐, Bachelor‐, Term‐ and Diploma Theses 

- Analytics Framework for Android App Publishers (Master Thesis), Corneliu Margine, December 

2012. 

- Listies – Curation, Streams and Business Models (Master Thesis), Gregor Wassmann, December 

2012. 

- How RFID or similar technology could help to streamline the materials and equipment handling and 

administrative processes of an airline catering company (MBA SCM Master Thesis), Urs 

Schwendinger, August 2012 

- Ausgestaltung von Produkten und Services für den Digitalen Strassenbau (Master Thesis), Alexander 

Morant, June 2012 

- A review GS1 Global Services Architecture – a revised strategy based on a stakeholder analysis (Master 

Thesis), Liu Qian, May 2012 

- Managing things based on their social structure (Master Thesis), Philipp Probst, April 2012 

- Konzeption und Bewertung einer mobilen Notrufanwendung in Gefahrensituationen im städtischen 

Umfeld (Bachelor Thesis), Christian Hartung, April 2012 

- Das Business‐Modell von SAP Business ByDesign im Vergleich zu anderen SaaS‐basierten Lösungen 

(Bachelor Thesis), Muralidharan Arjun, März 2012 

- Konzeptvorschlag zur Anbindung des Prozessleitsystems einer Industriemühle an ein ERP‐System 

(Master Thesis), Antoine Bolay, July 2011 





- The value proposition of persuasive games for the Swiss market (Master Thesis), Angela Bühler, July 

2011 

- Marketing Development Program for BPM (Master Thesis), Alexander Josef, July 2011 

- Development of a Transformation Programme for a Technical Consultant Group (Master Thesis), 

Christian Matthis, July 2011 

- Entscheidungsframework für die Evaluation mobiler Endgeräte bei der SBB (Master Thesis), Erich 

Siegrist, July 2011 

- IPTV Service Assurance: Kosteneinsparungen durch Analyse von IPTV‐Plattform‐Daten (Master 

Thesis), Claudio Hendry, July 2011 

- Understanding and Improving the Software Development Process at Glencore International AG 

(Master Thesis), Marc Balsys, June 2011 

- Implementation of Service Oriented Enterprise Architecture for Web Services (Master Thesis), Sara 

Khalatbari, July 2011 

- Urban Information System for the Real‐Time City (Master Thesis), Darshan Santani, May 2011 

- Analysis of a market entry strategy for IT security software (Master Thesis), Philip Snizek, April 2011 

- B2B2C Geschäftsmodelle und Markteinführungskonzept für Mobile‐ID bei Swisscom (Master Thesis), 

Stefan Weiss, April 2011 

- Enhancement of Enterprise Services Architecture in Selecting among Multiple Identical Systems 

(Master Thesis), Pavlin Mavrodiev, December 2010 

- Resource Capacity Planning in Projects, Mladen Markovic, December 2010 

- Credit Suisse Private Banking Service Innovation Factory, (Master Thesis), Stefan Wengi, Juni 2010 

- Analyse and propose an on-boarding process for a multiasset class F-Trader Trading Application, 

(Master Thesis), Joshua Pöhlmann, April 2010 

- Integrale Erhaltungsplanung von Infrastrukturanlagen im städtischen Bereich, (Master Thesis), Jan 

Wunderlich, April 2010 

- Geschäftsstrategie und Businessplan für die Internet-basierte Direktvermittlungszentrale 

mobiletaxi.ch, (Master Thesis), Thomas Flüeler, March 2010 

- Growth Opportunities for arvato as a Service Provider focused on Telecommunications and High-Tech 

Industry, (Master Thesis), Dennis Gotta, March 2010 

- Quality Management: Testing in the Software Development Process, (Master Thesis), Andreas Oeri, 

August 2009 

- The influence of Cloud Computing on the job market from the perspective of an IT consulting company, 

(Master Thesis), Markus Zehnder, July, 2009 

- Analysis of Information and Communication Technologies to track Retail Consumer Behavior, 

(Semester Project), Abhinav Khare, July, 2009 

- Elaboration of an investor ready business plan for a new venture offering an innovative B2C Internet 

service in the field of information Security, (Master Thesis), Christian Schwarzer, July, 2009 

- Eine Geschäftsmodellinnovation im FTTH Markt ‐ Ein wettbewerbsorientierter Ansatz, (Master 

Thesis), Benjamin Conconi, June, 2009 

- Vorstudie DVB‐SI System Erneuerung Das bei der SRG SSR ide suisse in der Distribution installierte 

DVB‐SI, (Master Thesis), Sabine Breitenmoser, June, 2009 

- Modernization of the national telephone surveillance, (Master Thesis), Georgios Kontoleon, 

August, 2008 

- A method for managing strategic release upgrade of ERP II‐Systems, (Master Thesis), René Martin 

Fischer, April 2008 

- An RFID‐based association of products (Master Thesis), Felix Stieger, June, 2008. 

- Business Rules for the insurance business (Master Thesis), Marco A. Zimmer, June, 2006 

- Evaluation of Emerging and Established Techniques to Fight Counterfeit Products (Master Thesis), 

Uwe Müller, June, 2006 

- Betriebswirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von MS SharePoint in der Migros (Master Thesis), Veronika 

Mischler, June, 2006 





- “Revolution in Laboratory Affairs” (Master Thesis), Patrick Bargsten, May, 2006 

- Evaluation of processes used in an IT company (Master Thesis), Patrick Spiess, June, 2006 

- Implementation of a Sensor‐Data‐Logger with a Multimedia‐Card (MMC) (Semester Project), 

Franco Hug, December, 2004 

- Evaluating the Use of Radar for Heart Rate Detection (Master Thesis), Ramon Wicki, Juli 2004. 

- Implementing PMR communication framework for transmitting data in Avalanche Rescue (Semester 

Project), Janneth Malibago, July, 2004 

- Visualization of Skiing Movements and Forces (Semester Project), Frederic Despont, August, 2004 

- Applying Wearable Sensors to Skiing (Master Thesis), Erich Crameri, October, 2003. 

- Applying Wearable Sensors to Avalanche Rescue (Master Thesis), Peter Matter, February, 2003 

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School 

09/1985‐07/1994 Final secondary‐school examinations, Werner‐von‐Siemens Gymnasium, 

Weißenburg/Bayern. 

- Abitur (high‐school, GCE, specialization: physics, mathematics) 

- Subject thesis: The Gaußsche elimination method. Theoretic fundamentals 

and programmed realization (German), Weissenburg i. Bay, 1994 

- Function at extracurricular activity at school: 

Author for Abiturzeitungʺ (graduation magazin) 

course speaker 

managing the leaving‐school final event 

09/1981‐07/1985 Grundschule Pleinfeld (primary school) 

Personal Interests 

Interests 

Family, international politics and economics, business ideas, writing/blogging: 

florian‐michahelles.blogspot.com, www.5muskeltiere.wordpress.com, www.siton.ch 

Sports 

Bicycle/mountainbike, hiking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, yoga, judo 

09/1990 ‐ 09/1995 Honorary coach for judo 

09‐1992 ‐ 05/2001 Honorary mountain guide at German mountain club

CV - Information Management - ETH ZÃ¼rich

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