Pervasive'08 Sydney, May 2008 Call for Demonstrations and Call for Videos Submission deadline: 1 March 2008 Call for Pervasive 2008 Demonstrations ====================================== Research Demonstrators offer a unique opportunity to showcase research prototypes, and to discuss them with an international audience of experts in pervasive computing. To promote this, Pervasive 2008 is seeking interesting and engaging demonstrations of pervasive computing technologies. Proposers are invited to submit Research Demonstrations under the general topics of the conference. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * New technologies and devices for pervasive computing * New applications of pervasive computing technologies * New interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * New models, tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing applications * Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments * Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing We encourage combining a research demonstration with a short paper that describes the contribution and as an anchor point for future reference. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, up to 4 pages in length and conform to the OCG Format (http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/files/richtlinien_engl_07_04.rtf) All demonstration submissions should be sent to the demonstration chairs via e-mail (c.f. below) The authors should also provide a brief sketch of the planned demonstration on an additional page. Specific requirements concerning space, power, network, and security should be stated. It is planned that wireless internet access will be provided. Accepted contributions will be published in the adjunct proceedings of 2008 with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) series and online. The demonstrations will be introduced during a plenary session of the conference, and there will also be a reception dedicated to the presentation of posters and demonstrators. Important Dates: ---------------- March 1, 2008: Demonstations: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Demonstrations: Acceptance notification Demonstrations Chairs: --------------------- Sebastien Ardon - NICTA, Australia. Email: <sebastien.ardon(at)nicta.com.au> Enrico Rukzio - Lancaster University, UK. Email: Enrico Rukzio <rukzio(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk> Call for Pervasive 2008 Videos =============================== Videos are an effective tool to showcase research results, to inspire other researchers, and to educate the general public about the latest developments in Pervasive Computing. With the category of Research Videos, Pervasive 2008 seeks research contributions, future visions, project descriptions, and concepts of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The conference particularly values practical experience with design, deployment and use of pervasive systems and applications, and investigation of exciting and inspiring ideas and technologies. To be accepted, a video must be of an appropriate length for the content. It must contain no material subject to copyright (i.e., that the authors cannot grant Pervasive 2008 the right to redistribute freely), and must be easily comprehensible to English speakers. Finally, an accepted video must be standalone, i.e., the video itself (with audio soundtrack) must describe the work sufficiently, without requiring the viewer to read the abstract. Videos will be judged primarily on their communication of interesting research content (assuming appropriate technical quality). Each research video must be accompanied by a short paper describing the key research contribution. The paper should be written in a way that it can be understood by readers who have not or will not see the video. Accepted videos will be shown in a special video session at Pervasive 2008. We also plan to have video proceedings on CD-ROM. The accompanying short paper will be published in the adjunct proceedings of Pervasive 2008 which will be available in printed form as well as electronically on the conference web-site. Submission and Review Process Authors MUST submit a URL to the video and a PDF of the accompanying short paper. Videos need to be submited in mpeg (MPEG1/2) or AVI (MPEG-4) as PAL or NTSC (The final camera-ready version must be submitted as PAL). The accompaying paper must be no longer than 4 pages in OCG Format. Please send submissions to pervasive.2008.videos@gmail.com. Only submit a link to the video file, not the video. Important Dates: ---------------- March 1, 2008: Videos: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Videos: Acceptance notification If authors have any queries regarding potential submissions, including copyright, please contact the co-chairs. Video Co-Chairs --------------- Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney, Australia Email: andrew(at)arch.usyd.edu.au Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Email: kortuem(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk --------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------