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CASEMANS 2008
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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.
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Curious
Places: Workshop on Self-Aware Systems for Intelligent
Environments
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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.
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IMUx 2008:
Workshop on Improved Mobile User
Interaction
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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.
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Pervasive Health
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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.
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PERMID 2008:
Pervasive Mobile Interaction
Devices
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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.
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Pervasive Computing @
Home
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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.
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Pervasive
Expression: Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information
Display
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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.
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Pervasive
Persuasive Technology and Environmental
Sustainability
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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?
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SPMU'08
?C Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone
Use
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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¡ªnot only on a platform
level, but on both the physical and social network
level as well.
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