I am Fredrik Boström, born in February 1980 in Jakobstad, Finland and resident in Helsinki since 2001. I’m currently working as an assistant researcher at Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT at the Department of Computer Science (University of Helsinki). Our work focuses on adaptive computing, context-awareness and ad hoc sensor networks. My work currently involves androMedia – a context-aware mobile music recommender, Capricorn – an intelligent interface for mobile widgets and Massive – an adaptive shopping assistant.
Publications
- Fredrik Boström, Petteri Nurmi, Patrik Floreen, Tianyan Liu, Tiina-Kaisa Oikarinen, Akos Vetek, Peter Boda: Capricorn – An Intelligent User Interface for Mobile Widgets, In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI-2008), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September, 2008. ACM Press 2008.
- Fredrik Boström: AndroMedia - Towards a Context-Aware Mobile Music Recommender. Master’s Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, May 2008.
- Fredrik Boström, Patrik Floréen, Tianyan Liu, Petteri Nurmi, Tiina-Kaisa Oikarinen, Akos Vetek, Péter Boda: Capricorn – An Intelligent Interface for Mobile Widgets, Demonstration at the 12th International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2008), Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, January 2008. ACM Press, 2008.
Other than my official work, I almost always have one or two projects to think about on my spare time. Check out the Projects page for some info about ongoing endeavours.
Interests
Except for computers and other geeky stuff, I’ve always been interested in the outdoors. As a former boy scout I’m still trying to maintain some degree of outback activity in my life. Before my knee got sore I used to hike in the Swedish mountains about once a year, but nowadays I stick to biking and climbing.
Since early years, I’ve been interested in cooking, mixing drinks and hosting parties. This interest led to a job as a bartender both in London 2001 and in my student’s association in 2003. I also co-hosted the 168th Porthan gala in November 2007 and has thrown numerous parties in different locations among friends.
Photography is also becoming a bigger part of my spare time activities, especially since I bought my Canon D30 from a friend of mine. Thus far I’m only shooting for fun, but I’d like to develope skills to be able to do some commercial gigs as well.
Contact me
If you’d like to contact me in any other way than leaving a comment in this blog, you can do so by sending an email to fredrik@fredrikbostrom.net.
Detailed contact information such as phone number and street address is also available on request.
