General Submission Information

You are invited to contribute original and exciting ideas to UbiComp 2003, the Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research and development achievements in the design, implementation, deployment and evaluation of computing technology that migrates beyond our desktops onto our hands, heads and clothing, and becomes increasingly embedded in a wide variety of other objects, such as walls, cars and appliances.

We welcome submissions that report on innovations in ubiquitous, mobile and pervasive computing, including but not limited to the following topics:

• New technologies and devices for ubiquitous computing

• New applications of ubiquitous computing technologies

• New interfaces and modes of interactions between people and ubiquitous computing devices, applications or environments

• New infrastructures and architectures for supporting ubiquitous computing applications

• Evaluations, and evaluation methodologies, for assessing the impact of ubiquitous computing devices, applications or environments

• Social issues and implications of ubiquitous computing

PARTICIPATION CATEGORIES AND FORMATS

Submissions to UbiComp 2003 must be original, unpublished work and may not be simultaneously submitted to any other conference or journal.

All submissions must be made electronically as Adobe PDF documents.

Papers and Technical Notes will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Each conference attendee will receive a printed copy of the proceedings; additional copies can be purchased through Springer-Verlag. The proceedings will also be made available through digital libraries . Submissions must be in the LNCS format; full instructions and templates are available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

A Conference Supplement, containing extended abstracts for Interactive Posters, Demonstrations, Videos, Doctoral Colloquium papers, and Workshop and Panel descriptions, will be printed and given to conference attendees. Electronic versions of these materials will also be posted on the UbiComp 2003 web site. Submissions for these participation categories must use the ACM SIGCHI conference publications format.¹