Nemanja Memarovic

Hi, I'm Nemanja Memarovic and I'm currently a postdoc at People and Computing lab at the University of Zurich. I conduct multidisciplinary research that lies on the intersection of HCI and UbiComp, community informatics, environmental social science, and media studies. The overall goal of my research is to investigate how technology can help in 1) augmenting human interactions in the real world and 2) enhancing our experiences of physical settings. In the past five years I have explored extensively how human interactions in public spaces could be enhanced through a new communication system – networked public displays.

I did my PhD (2009-2014) in the context of the PD-NET project at the UbiComp group at the Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano with Marc Langheinrich as my advisor. During my PhD I was a visiting researcher at the University of Oulu in Finland (2011) with Timo Ojala's group for the UbiChallenge competition where our FunSquare application received the first place. I have also been a visiting researcher on the Screens In The Wild project (2012-2013) at the Bartlet School of Graduate Studies, University College London where I worked together with Ava Fatah gen. Schieck on the Moment Machine application.

Before starting my PhD I was a research assistant at Project54, CATLab at Electrical Engineering, University of New Hampshire (UNH). At CATLab I was working with Andrew L. Kun on in-car multimodal user interfaces focusing on how visual and audio GPS interfaces effect driving performance. During my time at UNH I also obtained an MSc in Electrical Engineering (2007-2009).

I got my frist MSc degree from Computer and Electrical Engineering Department at the Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTN), University of Novi Sad (2001-2007). During my studies at FTN I worked for three months in 2006 as an intern at the Logistics Department at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland on the motion simulator for the Gantry system. Shortly after graduating from FTN I worked for three months as a junior software developer at Prozone, Novi Sad, Serbia on the eDocumentus project.

I like to participate and help in organising conferences and workshops:) I was a PC co-chair for the Community Informatics conference in 2012 and 2013, Publicity Chair for PerDis 2012 (and also an in-situ Demo Chair) and 2015 , Web Chair for UbiComp 2013, and Workshop co-chair at C&T 2015. I've also organised couple of workshops with help of my colleagues and friends -- SOFTec 2012 and 2013 at UbiComp, ExS 2.0 at Communities and Technologies 2013, PD-Apps 2014 at PerCom, HCI-3P at DIS 2014, and PoS workshop at NordiCHI 2014. Also, I have been a regular PC member for PerDis conference since its foundation in 2012, a PC member for ICWSM in 2014, and C&T in 2015.

If you're interested in my research you can also check out my Google Scholar page.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

1. Memarovic, N., Ghering, S., and Fischer, P.T. 2015. "ELSI Model: Bridging user engagement around interactive public displays and media facades in urban spaces". In Journal of Urban Technology.
2. Memarovic, N., Fels, S., Anacleto, J., Calderon, R., Gobbo, F., and Carroll, J.M. 2014. Rethinking Third Places: Contemporary Design With Technology. In: The Journal of Community Informatics.
3. Memarovic, N., Fatah gen Schieck, A., Kostopoulou, E., Behrens, M., and Al-Sayed, K. 2014. "Attention, An Interactive Display Is Running! Integrating Interactive Public Display Within Urban Dis(At)tractors". In: Arcagni, S. (Ed.), Screencity Journal, issue 4, Special Issue on Spaces, Images, Communication: Improving New Urban Models, 2014.
4. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., Cheverst, K., Taylor, N., and Alt, F. 2013. P-LAYERS – A layered framework addressing the multi-faceted issues facing community-supporting public display deployments. In: ACM Transactions of Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI).

Peer-Reviewed Conference Articles

1. Memarovic, N. 2015. Understanding Future Challenges for Networked Public Display Systems in Community Settings. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Communities and Technologies.
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2. Memarovic, N. 2015. Public Photos, Private Concerns: Uncovering Privacy Concerns of User Generated Content Created Through Networked Public Displays. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays.
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3. Memarovic, N. 2015. Construction on Display: Exploring the Use of Public Displays on Construction Sites. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays.
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4. Memarovic, N., Clinch, S., and Alt, F. 2015. Understanding Display Blindness in Future Display Deployments. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays.
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5. Memarovic, N., Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Schnädelbach, H., Kostopoulou, E., North, S., and Ye, L. 2015. Capture the Moment: “In the Wild” Longitudinal Case Study of Situated Snapshots Captured Through an Urban Screen in a Community Setting. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW'15).
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6. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., Fatah gen. Schieck, A. 2014. Community Is the Message: Viewing Networked Public Displays Through McLuhan's Lens of Figure and Ground. In Proceedings of the 2nd Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities (MAB'14), 30-33. ACM.
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7. Elhart, I., Langheinrich, M., Memarovic, N., and Heikkinen, T. 2014. Scheduling Interactive and Concurrently Running Applications in Pervasive Display Networks. In: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '14). ACM.
8. Greis, N., Alt, F., Henze, N., and Memarovic, N. 2014. I Can Wait a Minute: Uncovering the Optimal Delay Time for Pre-Moderated User-Generated Content on Public Displays. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14).
9. Memarovic, N., Cheverst, K., Langheinrich, M., Elhart, I., and Alt, F. 2013. Tethered or free to roam: the design space of limiting content access on community displays. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis '13). ACM
10. Sabiescu, A. G., and Memarovic, N. 2013. Participatory Design for Cultural Representation: A Cultural Transparency Perspective. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
11. Memarovic, N., gen Schieck, A. F., Kostopoulou, E., Behrens, M., and Traunmueller, M. 2013. Moment Machine: Opportunities and Challenges of Posting Situated Snapshots onto Networked Public Displays. In Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2013. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
12. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., Rubegni, E., David, A., and Elhart, I. 2012. Designing “Interacting Places” for a Student Community using a Communicative Ecology Approach. In: 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2012), December 2012
13. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., Alt, F., Elhart, I., Hosio, S., and Rubegni, E. 2012. Using Public Displays to Stimulate Passive Engagement, Active Engagement, and Discovery in Public Spaces. In: Media Architecture Biennale 2012. ACM.
14. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., and Alt, F. 2012. Interacting Places Framework – Designing Applications that Promote Community Interaction and Place Awareness. In: The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. ACM, June 2012
15. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., and Alt, F. 2012. Interacting Places – A Framwork for Promoting Community Interaction and Place Awareness through Public Displays. In: Work-in-Progress Session, Adjunct Proceedings PerCom, March 2012
16. Alt, F., Schneegaß, S., Schmidt, A., Müller, J., and Memarovic, N. 2012. How to evaluate public displays. In: The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. ACM.
17. Memarovic, N., Elhart, I., and Langheinrich, M. 2011. FunSquare: First Experiences with Autopoiesic Content. In: 10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2011). ACM.
18. Memarovic, N., Langheinrich, M., and Alt, F. 2011. Connecting People through Content - Promoting Community Identity Cognition through People and Places. In: Community Informatics 2011.
19. Rubegni, E., Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2011. CATS – Using Scenario Dramatization to Rapidly Design Public Displays for Stimulating Community Interaction. In: 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC 2011). ACM Press, October 2011, pp. 132-135
20. Rubegni, E., Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2011. Talking to Strangers: Using Large Public Displays to Facilitate Social Interaction. In: 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2011). Springer, July 2011.
21. Alt, F., Memarovic, N., Elhart, I., Bial, D., Schmidt, A., Langheinrich, M., Harboe, G., Huang, E.M., and Scipioni, M.P. 2011. Designing Shared Public Display Networks – Implications from Today’s Paper-Based Notice Areas. In: Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing - Pervasive 2011, San Francisco, USA. Springer, June 2011.
22. Kun, A.L., Paek, T., Medenica, Ž., Memarovic, N., and Palinko, O. 2009. Glancing at personal navigation devices can affect driving: experimental results and design implications. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '09). ACM.

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Articles

1. Memarovic, N. 2015. Pictures “In The Wild”: Uncovering Privacy Concerns for Situated Snapshots. In: The Future of Networked Privacy workshop, held in conjunction with CSCW'15, Vancouver, CA, March 2915.
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2. Memarovic, N. 2014. “Marshalling” Networked Public Displays: Connecting McLuhan’s Media Theory With Networked Public Displays". In: Interaction and Architectural Space: A CHI2014 Workshop, held in conjunction with CHI'14, Toronto, CA, May 2014.
3. Elhart, I., Langheinrich, M., and Memarovic, N. 2014. Integrating Interactive Applications with Digital Signage: Towards a Scheduling Framework for Pervasive Displays. In: PD-Apps 2014 – Workshop on Developing Applications for Pervaive Display Networks, in conjunction with PerCom’14, Budapest, March 2014.
4. Alt, F., Memarovic, N., Greis, M., and Henze, N. 2014. UniDisplay - A Research Prototype to Investigate Expectations Towards Public Display Applications. In: PD-Apps 2014 – Workshop on Developing Applications for Pervaive Display Networks, in conjunction with PerCom’14, Budapest, March 2014.
5. Memarovic, N. 2013. Towards Uncovering Factors that Influence Adoption of Networked Public Displays within Communities. In: HCI-3P: Workshop on Human Computer Interaction for Third Places, held in conjunction with CHI 2013, Paris, France, May 2013.
6. Rubegni, E., Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2012. CATS: A Design Methodology for Acquiring and Transferring User Behavior into Artifacts. In: The Message in the Bottle: Best Practices for Transferring the Knowledge from Qualitative User Studies, held in conjunction with DIS 2012, Newcastle, UK, June 2012.
7. Langheinrich, M., Memarovic, N., Elhart, I., and Alt, F. 2011. Autopoiesic Content: A Conceptual Model for Enabling Situated Self-generative Content for Public Displays. In: First Intl. Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA), held in conjunction with Pervasive 2011, San Francisco, USA, June 2011
8. Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2010. “Your place or mine?” – Connecting communities and public places through networked public displays. In: Workshop on the Urban Internet of Things – Towards Programmable Real-time Cities (UrbanIOT 2010), held in conjunction with IOT 2010, Tokyo, Japan, December 2010.
9. Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2010. Enhancing Community Interaction in Public Spaces Through Situated Public Displays. Workshop on Social Interaction in Spatially Separated Environments, held in conjunction with Ubicomp 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2010.
10. Memarovic, N., and Langheinrich, M. 2010. Beyond Web 2.0: Challenges in Personalizing for Networked Public Display Environments. Pervasive Personalisation Workshop, held in conjunction with Pervasive 2010. Helsinki, Finland, May 2010.

Demos and Posters

1. Memarovic, N., Elhart, I., Michelotti, A., Rubegni, E., and Langheinrich. M. 2013. Social networked displays: integrating networked public displays with social media. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct). ACM
2. Elhart, I., Memarovic, N., Langheinrich. M., and Rubegni, E. 2013. Control and scheduling interface for public displays. In Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication (UbiComp '13 Adjunct). ACM
3. Elhart, I., and Memarovic, N. 2013. WE-BAT: Web Based Application Template for Networked Public Display Applications that Show User Contributed Content. In: Poster at PerDis’13.

PhD Colloquium

1. Memarovic, N. 2011. Interacting Places− Tools and Interfaces for Facilitating Community Interaction through Public Displays. In PhD Colloquium at Community Informatics 2011. Best PhD paper award.

Magazine Articles

1. Memarovic, N., Mayer, S., Baumann, P., and Pasch, M. 2014. UbiComp 2013 Report. In: IEEE Pervasive Conference Column.

Edited Volumes

1. Stillman, L., Sabiescu, A., and Memarovic, N. (Eds.) 2013. Proceedings of CIRN 2013 Community Informatics Conference: ‘Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives meets Community Informatics’
2. Stillman, L., Denison, T., Sabiescu, A., and Memarovic, N. (Eds.) 2012. Proceedings of the CIRN 2012 Community Informatics Conference: 'Ideals meet Reality'

PhD Thesis

• Memarovic Nemanja. 2014. Interacting Places - Networked Public Displays That Stimulate Community Interaction
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