+-------------------------------------------------------------+ Call for Workshop Papers Pervasive 2008 The Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing Sydney, Australia May 19-22, 2008 http://pervasive2008.org/ +-------------------------------------------------------------+ Workshops @ Pervasive 2008 Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views. The day-long workshops will be held prior to the main conference on Monday, May 19, 2008 or right after on Thursday, May 22, 2008. The following workshops have been planned: --------------------------------------------------------- CAPC2008: Workshop on Context-Aware Pervasive Communities --------------------------------------------------------- The pervasive computing vision calls for computation, sensing and networking to be ubiquitous, whether with users or embedded into everyday living environments. A result of ubiquitous networking and computational ability is to form digital boundaries around entities. As such, communities, whether geographically transcending or based at a place, formed with a priori agreements or ad hoc via simply a collocation of interacting devices members, transient or long-living, can form a digital matrix or space in which its participants interact, provide services or utilize services. http://hercules.infotech.monash.edu.au/EII-CAC/CAPC2008/ ------------- CASEMANS 2008 ------------- The CASEMANS 2008 workshop strives to investigate the role of past and present as well as future contextual information (where a contextual information describes the dynamic aspects of people, places, devices, platforms, networks, etc.) to develop self-managing devices, middleware, database, applications and networks as well as to enable dynamic cooperation and collaboration between devices to carry out a distributed, autonomous task. The workshop particularly solicits papers which demonstrate the modelling of a context along with other system components and workflows when self-managing applications, devices and networks are developed. http://z2.inf.tu-dresden.de/casemans/2008/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curious Places: Workshop on Self-Aware Systems for Intelligent Environments --------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the ubiquity of digital technology comes increasing expectations of the responsiveness of our environment to our actions. We look towards intelligent environments and systems that can not only respond and adapt to our actions, but pro-actively support and enhance our everyday activities. This workshop will investigate intelligent environments as pervasive, self-aware computing systems that may exhibit curiosity, creativity, competence or other aspects of natural systems. The workshop will be a forum for the discussion of novel models, tools, infrastructure, architectures and techniques that extend pervasive computing to self-aware, adaptive systems. http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/curious_places/index.html ------------------------------------------------------- IMUx 2008: Workshop on Improved Mobile User Interaction ------------------------------------------------------- Current interfaces of mobile devices are rather limited when adaptability, context-awareness and proactiveness are considered. For example, they do not utilize the context of the interaction, nor the environmental changes in the user's proximity or the capabilities of the device itself. To improve usability and to provide a better user experience, the interfaces of the devices should become more intelligent and require less intentional user inputs. To improve the dialogue between the different research areas and their practitioners, the workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of user modeling, user interaction and user experience, with developers of mobile and ubiquitous applications. http://www.hiit.fi/events/imux2008/ ---------------- Pervasive Health ---------------- Pervasive technology is increasingly prevalent within the health sector. Clinicians are well known as early adopters of technologies that improves patient care and clinical practice. We are seeing increasing collaboration between health providers, high-tech ICT laboratories and research institutions. The aim of this workshop is to bring together health care professionals (pervasive technology early adopters), industry practitioners (pervasive technology real-world developers) and researchers (pervasive technology explorers) to interact and discuss issues and trends in relation to deployment and adoption of pervasive technologies in health care. http://www.nicta.com.au/research/projects/body_area_networks_of_embedded_sys... _for_humans/pervasive_health ------------------------------------------------- PERMID 2008: Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices ------------------------------------------------- Interaction research on the pervasive mobile devices is a rather young and rapidly developing field. So far mobile handheld devices have been mostly used for phone calls, messaging and organizer functionalities. However, mobile multimedia features, device-integrated sensors and improving data transfer capabilities are expanding their use to ever increasing application areas. Mobile devices offer great potential to develop new interaction methods and applications for pervasive computing. They can function as a mediator between the virtual and the physical world, as an accessible user interface for smart environments, and platforms for location or context-aware application, to mention a few. http://www.permid.org/2008/ -------------------------- Pervasive Computing @ Home -------------------------- The Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop will focus on Pervasive Technology as applied specifically to a home environment. We will discuss what distinguishes the home from other sites of technological innovation, approaches to studying behavior in a home setting including in-situ studies and living laboratories, and lessons learned from building and studying pervasive technologies intended for use in homes. We encourage participants who have previously placed technology in the home or living laboratory or who are planning on doing so in the future to apply to this workshop. http://research.microsoft.com/research/ubicomp/technologyforhome/pervasive20... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Expression: Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive display technology often experiments beyond the use of simple LCD or pixel-based displays, instead utilizing a wide set of alternative output technologies such as LED light arrays, e-textiles, electroluminescent wires, thermo-chromatic inks, shape-changing materials, inflatables, smell emitters, tangible feedback mechanisms or complex sound generators. Although recent advances in pervasive technology have advanced knowledge about sensor data interpretation, context recognition and their applications, still much more needs to be known about how information can be communicated back to the user in an expressive but pervasive way. The development, implementation and use of such technology inherently encounters important considerations, such as privacy, ethics, usability, control, comprehensibility, engagement and technical development, spanning a spectrum from informative representation to artistic experience. http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability ---------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The key theme of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold: (1) How to go beyond just informing and into motivating and encouraging action and change. (2) Pervasiveness can easily turn invasive. We want to start re-considering the impact of pervasive technology from an ecological perspective. (3) Digital divide between humans and the environment: Can the process of 'blogging sensor data' assist us in becoming more aware of the needs of nature? How can we avoid the downsides? http://faculty.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/pervasive_expression/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPMU'08 �C Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile phones present unique challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life, and form factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users�� privacy and security. Applications such as mobile payment and ticketing solutions, electronic health records, and collaborative applications and games, will require novel means to protect and exchange both sensitive and public information about users. This is further complicated by the fact that there is hardly any a-priori information about potential communication partners. This workshops aims at bringing together researchers interested in exploring security and privacy issues in mobile phone usage��not only on a platform level, but on both the physical and social network level as well. http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/events/spmu08/ On behalf of the Pervasive 2008 conference, we look forward to your contribution. For more information, please visit http://www.pervasive2008.org/ Sincerely, Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich/AutoID-Labs, Switzerland Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan Pervasive 2008 Publicity Chairs --------------------------- Dr. Zhiwen YU Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan TEL/FAX: (+81)075-753-7480 Email: yu@ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/ ---------------------------