Sebastian Feuerstack

Sebastian Feuerstack is currently researching about dialogue modeling for multimodal applications as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) in São Paulo in Brazil. His project is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2009 he studied the portuguese language at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) university in São Paulo, Bazil after he has finished his Ph.D. thesis about a method for user-centered and model-based development of user interfaces in the DAI-Labor at the Technische Universitaet Berlin (TUB) in 2008. There he was involved as a project manager in the Service-Centric Home Project (SerCHo) that has been selected as one of eleven winning projects by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology from over 140 project proposals that have been submitted. The SerCHo project is supported by the next generation media programme focusing on the sector of new technologies and ubiquitous computing. After the SerCHo project he initiated the iZConnected initiative in the end of 2008 that connects several major companies in the areas of consumer electronics, healthcare, energy production, telecommunication, and household appliances with small- and medium sized companies to realize and test platforms as well as to support standards to push services in smart home environments. He started his research career in November 2002 after he had finished his diploma thesis (german MA). The subject of his diploma thesis was An Architecture for Ubiquitous Service Access in Distributed Systems, which he has written during a visit of the Deutsche Telekom T-Nova North America, California.

Sebastian Feuerstack pesquisa metodologias para o desenvolvimento de Sistemas Multimodais para web. Foi selecionado pelo DFG, órgão alemão de incentivo à pesquisa, para o programa de pós-doutorado da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.Possuiu graduação em Ciência da Computação (1999) e mestrado em Sistemas de Inteligência Artificial e Bancos de Dados (2002). Na Universidade Tecnológica de Berlim fez doutorado em Design Centrado no Usuário (2008).Seu projeto de doutorado, Sercho (http://www.sercho.de), centrado em automação residencial, foi escolhido, entre 140 projetos, e financiado pelo Ministério da Economia e Tecnologia da Alemanha.Também foi premiado pelo presidente da Alemanha e Deutsche Bank como um dos melhores projetos inovadores do país no ano 2008.Fundou Iz-Connected, uma iniciativa de padronização e interconexão entre fabricantes de eletrodomésticos e outros aparelhos.Para mais detalhes, veja o site sobre o seu projeto atual: http://www.multi-access.de