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Workshops provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of ubiquitous computing research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops may focus on any aspect of ubiquitous computing, established concerns or new ideas. The goal of the workshop is to share understandings and experiences, to foster research communities, to learn from each other and to envision future directions.
Workshops will be held on Sunday, October 12, the day before the main conference. Opportunities will be available for the outcome of workshops to be reported to the rest of the UbiComp 2003 conference through posters.
Please note that, unlike UbiComp 2002, prospective workshop attendees require an invitation from the workshop organisers based on acceptance of submitted position papers or explicit request. Upon acceptance, attendees will need to explicitly register for the workshop, which will include a separate workshop fee, in addition to registering for the main conference.
Workshop titles and organizers are listed below. General questions about the workshops can be addressed to the Workshop Chair (Michael Beigl, workshops-2003@ubicomp.org); specific questions about any individual workshop should be directed to the organizer(s) of the workshop.
List of Workshops
W1. Ubicomp Education: Current Status and Future Directions
| Organizers: |
Gregory D. Abowd (Georgia Tech, USA),
Gaetano Borriello (University of Washington, USA),
Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK) |
The increasing importance of ubiquitous computing as a research discipline creates demand for comprehensive ubicomp education at universities. However, while ubicomp-related courses are taught at several universities on a more or less regular schedule, there is no common agreement on the scope and boundaries of ubicomp education.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss where ubicomp education is today and where it should be headed. It is aimed at educators and students who are actively involved in teaching, training and learning ubicomp and who are interested in shaping the future of ubicomp education.
The main goals of this workshop are to review the current state of ubicomp education and to share actual teaching experiences. Particular issues to be addressed include:
- What should we be taught and why?
- How should we be teaching ubicomp?
- Which educational approaches and learning pedagogies are appropriate for ubicomp?
- How should ubicomp be positioned in relation to existing Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and HCI curricula?
- What resources are required and available to enable educators and learners?
The primary expected outcome of this workshop are the definition of core ubicomp teaching modules and the establishment of an evolving clearinghouse of ubicomp teaching materials. This workshop will be the first of an ongoing series of international workshops aimed at shaping ubicomp education.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
W2. Location-Aware Computing
| Organizers: |
Mike Hazas (Lancaster University, UK),
James Scott (Intel Research Cambridge, UK),
John Krumm (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) |
| Contact email: |
location-workshop-2003@ubicomp.org |
This workshop will examine the state of the art in location-aware computing, with the objectives of drawing conclusions from existing work, and identifying critical areas for future research. Main themes of the workshop will include location systems design, location representations and sensor fusion, compelling location-aware applications, and factors affecting the deployment of location-aware systems in everyday environments.
Submission details:
Workshop applicants should submit a one-page position paper, using the link provided on the workshop website. An especially strong position statement may lead to an opportunity to give one of the workshop's six invited talks. Invited speakers and authors of compelling position statements will be requested to elaborate on their thoughts in a short three-page paper, to be included in the UbiComp 2003 Adjunct Proceedings. More details concerning the workshop scope and the format of position paper submissions appear on the workshop website.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
Notification: August 22
W3. Ubiquitous Computing for Pervasive Healthcare Applications
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Jakob Bardram (University of Aarhus, Danmark),
Ilkka Korhonen (VTT Information Technology, Finland),
Alex Mihailidis (Simon Fraser University, Canada),
Dadong Wan (Accenture Technology Labs, USA) |
The term ‘pervasive healthcare’ describes the use of pervasive computing technologies in delivering healthcare services, including making healthcare services more ‘pervasively’ available across boundaries in time, organization, and place. Building on the UbiCog 2002 workshop held at the UbiComp 2002 conference, the aim of this workshop is to continue the development of a community of researchers working with pervasive and ubiquitous computing technology and healthcare, and to identify and discuss research themes and methods to guide future research. The workshop will focus on exploring this potential by discussing the constraints and possibilities of existing and emerging technologies for supporting healthcare and patient self-management, and focus on identifying current and future research directions. These goals will be accomplished through presentation of the participants’ visions and research, brainstorming sessions, and small-group breakout sessions.
Submission details:
- Ten to fifteen participants will be invited based on a position paper submitted prior to the workshop.
- Each position paper should be two to five pages in length and consist of the author's vision of the use of pervasive computing in healthcare, current work, expectations towards the workshop, and the author's research activities including a short bio of the author(s).
- Position papers should be formatted according to the standard Springer Verlag format and submitted in PDF format. A template file can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
- Papers should be submitted to the workshop program committee by email to Illka Korhonen (ilkka.korhonen@vtt.fi).
- There will be a workshop website accessible from http://www.pervasivehealthcare.dk/ubicomp2003 where both accepted submissions, workshop details (e.g. the program), and the results of the workshop will be posted.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
Notification: August 22 September 5
W4. Security in Ubiquitous Computing
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Joachim Posegga (SAP Corporate Research, Germany),
Philip Robinson (U. of Karlsruhe/TeCO, Germany),
Narendar Shankar (University of Maryland, USA),
Harald Vogt (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) |
This second Ubicomp workshop on security seeks to improve the understanding of security threats and mechanims in the emerging world of ubiquitous computing. We are looking for analyses, models and systems, new directions, and novel applications of established mechanisms approaching the risks and concerns associated with the utilization and acceptance of ubiquitous computing devices and systems. The workshop is aimed at providing a forum for highly interactive presentations and lively discussions.
Submission details:
Documents are accepted in PDF or PS format. Use a font no smaller than 10pt. Papers should be 10 pages or less. Descriptions of either ongoing or completed work are welcome. We also encourage the submission of system descriptions and prototype demonstrations. Please send your submissions by E-mail to Harald Vogt (vogt@inf.ethz.ch).
Submission deadline: August 8 August 22
Notification: August 22 September 5
W5. Multi-Device Interfaces for Ubiquitous Peripheral Interaction
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Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA),
Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech, USA),
Brian Amento (AT&T Labs, USA) |
Cell-phones and PDAs are ubiquitous, yet there are limits to the usage they afford. Notably, they aren't always accessible - they're usually carried in a pocket, purse, backpack, etc. This means that people must consciously decide to use a device; furthermore, when a device is used, it becomes the focus of the user's attention. A new generation of emerging devices does not share these limits. For example, a computationally augmented wristwatch is always visible. It could be used to scroll messages and reminders, and to sound tones or light LEDs for items of special interest. Such special purpose devices can be combined with PDAs to form multi-device interfaces, delivering a user experience that offers both the peripheral awareness enabled by (say) a wristwatch, and the more powerful computational, networking, and interactive capabilities of a PDA. This workshop aims to explore candidate devices, interface designs, and information architectures for multi-device interfaces.
Submission details:
The workshop has three specific goals: (1) identifying requirements for ubiquitous peripheral awareness devices and considering specific devices that can meet these requirements, (2) exploring software techniques and architectures that drive the interaction, and (3) examining designs for interfaces that divide their functionality across several wearable devices. Please read the workshop web site (http://www.cs.umn.edu/~terveen/ubicomp2003.html) for additional details. Then submit a 2-4 page position statement that first describes your background briefly, then addresses one or more of the workshop goals, identifies at least one specific research issue associated with each goal, and describes your current or planned work that addresses the issues. The organizers will select participants based on the significance and clarity of the research questions and the novelty and interest of the proposed or completed solutions. Position papers of all accepted participants will be posted on the workshop website. All submissions should be sent via email to terveen@cs.umn.edu with a subject field "Ubicomp 2003 Workshop submission".
Submission deadline: August 8 August 22
Notification: August 22 September 5
W6. Ubicomp Communities: Privacy as Boundary Negotiation
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John Canny (University of California, USA),
Scott Mainwaring (Intel Research, USA),
Paul Dourish (University of California, USA),
Jens Grossklags (University of California, USA),
Xiaodong Jiang (University of California, USA) |
Ubiquitous computing conjures visions of big and little brother, and ever-diminishing privacy. But it also opens up new forms of communication, collaboration and social relations. Full participation in communities involves exchange of information, and maintenance of a visible, public persona. Privacy is often regarded as an imperative in its own right, but this perspective ignores the countervailing need for disclosure in social settings. This workshop takes a balancing perspective: it treats community participation as a goal, and balances the need for disclosure against the need for privacy. Privacy is not an abstract consideration, but a practical process of negotiating and managing boundaries. The workshop will explore both social perspectives and technical approaches to this issue, and aims to provide a forum for ubicomp system developers and researchers, security researchers, and social scientists to collaboratively explore the future of trust-sensitive and community tools in ubicomp.
Submission details:
Position papers should be submitted in PDF or MS Word format to privacyworkshop@guir.berkeley.edu. It is recommended that authors limit their submissions to no more than 6 pages, A4 or letter size.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 22
Notification: August 22 September 1
W7. At the Crossroads: The Interaction of HCI and Systems Issues in UbiComp
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Brad Johanson (Stanford University, USA),
Jan Borchers (ETH Zürich, Switzerland),
Bernt Schiele (ETH Zürich, Switzerland),
Peter Tandler (IPSI Darmstadt, Germany),
Keith Edwards (Palo Alto Research Center, USA) |
UbiComp research can be seen as the study of both the way future users will interact with the sea of computers through which they will move, and also the systems technology that will allow these computers to interact with one another in meaningful ways. Thus, the field concerns both the issues of human-computer interaction (HCI) and systems technology. While systems issues always impact the types of user interactions that are feasible, and user interaction should influence the design of underlying systems, in UbiComp the two disciplines are even more interdependent than on current desktop platforms, where interaction modalities and techniques are less diverse and mostly predetermined through the desktop metaphor. This workshop looks at the fundamentals of HCI and how they affect the design of UbiComp systems, as well as the limits and tradeoffs in system design and how those restrict the types of interaction and interfaces that can be supported in the world of ubiquitous computing. The workshop will include overviews of these issues, presentations from participants about their experiences, and group discussions where we as workshop participants will try to extract themes and principles for future presentation to the UbiComp community at large.
Submission details:
Papers for the workshop should be no longer than 4 pages and should be in ACM SIGCHI format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chipubform/).
Submissions should be emailed to bjohanso@graphics.stanford.edu.
Submission deadline: August 8
Notification: August 22
W8. Ubisys: System Support for Ubiquitous Computing Workshop
| Organizers: |
Roy Campbell (University of Illinois, USA),
Armando Fox (Stanford University, USA),
Manuel Roman (DoCoMo Labs, USA),
Christian Becker (University of Stuttgart, Germany),
Paul Chou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA),
Adrian Friday (Lancaster University, UK) |
This workshop offers the opportunity to bring together researchers and practitioners involved in the development of systems support for general purpose ubiquitous computing environments. It aims at exploring most recent research and findings in this area, comparing results, exchanging experiences, and promoting collaboration and cooperation among researchers in the field. The workshop aims at identifying the common abstractions and patterns found in the existing systems, as well as the core low-level services that are needed to build general-purpose ubiquitous computing environments. The workshop will focus on different aspects of system and middleware research and the challenges involved when applying them to support ubiquitous computing. Special emphasis will be placed on presenting state of the art and emerging research as well as experience reports from the following topics and related research areas:
- System support infrastructures and services
- Middleware for ubiquitous computing
- Architectural structure, design decisions and philosophies
Submission details:
Paper submissions must be 8 pages long in LNCS format. Papers in PDF format are to be emailed to ubisys@cs.uiuc.edu.
Papers will have to cover one of the topics listed above. We will prioritize experience papers describing lessons learnt from built systems, including information about approaches that did and did not work, unexpected results, common abstractions, abstraction mapping among different systems, common building blocks present in different architectures, and metrics for evaluating ubiquitous computing infrastructures.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
Notification: August 22
W9. First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems for Supporting Social Interaction and Face-to-Face Communication in Public Spaces
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Rick Borovoy (nTAG, LLC),
Harry Brignull (The Interact Lab, COGS, University of Sussex, UK),
Shahram Izadi (The Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, UK),
Volodymyr Kindratenko (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC, USA),
Alex Lightman (Charmed Technology, USA),
Norbert Streitz (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany) |
| Program Committee: |
Donna Cox (National Center for Supercomputing Applications,UIUC, USA),
David Pointer (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, UIUC, USA) |
Our motivation for this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in ubiquitous systems that support social interaction and face-to-face communication in public spaces, such as convention centers and museums. In recent years attempts have been made to provide public gatherings attendees with various value-added services. These services are based on the ability to either track individuals as they go from one location to another or detect when they interact with each other or with various "smart" objects embedded in the space. Examples of successful applications include Digital Assistant developed at ATR Media Information Science Lab, IntelliBadge developed at NCSA, the GossipWall developed at Fraunhofer IPSI, nTag by nTAG Interactive, and SpotMe system by Shockfish.
Designing and implementing these systems is a challenge. It involves several non-related technologies, such as indoor location tracking, data mining, and visualization. It also frequently requires an extensive support infrastructure, such as a dedicated communication network. But most importantly it has to be socially accepted by the target users community. The idea of tracking individuals and studying social network formation is repugnant to many people. Therefore it is important to find the right balance between the privacy rights of individuals and the offered services.
This workshop will bring together participants who define, design, develop, deploy, evaluate, and use ubiquitous systems for supporting social interaction and face-to-face communication in public spaces and at public gatherings. We will discuss previous results in this area and share our experiences with the ultimate goal of identifying the research challenges and directions that the researchers involved with this type of work are likely to face. Topics relevant to the workshop include, but are not limited to: applications, system design, user interface, deployment, scalability, reliability, privacy, security, and social aspects.
Submission details:
Each position paper should be no more than 6 pages in length and consist of the author's vision and/or experience of the design and usage of ubiquitous systems for public spaces. It should also include a short bio of the author(s). Position papers may also be accompanied by a short proposal for a live demonstration.
Papers should be submitted in PDF or MS Word format to Volodymyr Kindratenko (kindr@ncsa.uiuc.edu).
Submission deadline: August 8
Notification: August 22
W10. Intimate Ubiquitous Computing
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Genevieve Bell (Intel Research, USA),
Tim Brooke (FX Palo Alto Lab, USA),
Elizabeth Churchill (FX Palo Alto Lab, USA),
Eric Paulos (Intel Research, USA) |
Ubiquitous computing has long been associated with intimacy. Embedded in the literature we see intimacy portrayed as: knowledge our appliances and applications have of us; physical closeness, incarnated on the body as wearable computing and in the body as nanobots; and computer mediated connection with friends, lovers, confidantes and colleagues. As appliances and computation move away from the desktop, and as designers move toward designing for emotion and social connection rather than usability and utility, we are poised to design technologies that are explicitly intimate and/or intimacy promoting. This workshop will: critically reflect on notions of intimacy; consider cultural and ethical issues in designing intimate technologies; and explore potential socio-technical design methods for intimate computing.
Submission details:
Submitted papers should be no more than 4 pages in the ACM SigCHI format. Every submission should include at least one image of a designed object that the authors consider to be intimate or intimacy-promoting. The image and its discussion should be included within the 4 page limit. Submitted examples will be used to foster discussion before and during the workshop.
Send all submissions in Adobe Acrobat format to: intimate@intimateornot.com
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
Notification: August 22
W11. Ubiquitous Commerce
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Geroge Roussos (University of London, UK),
Anatole Gershman (Accenture Technology Labs, USA),
Panos Kourouthanassis (Athens University, Greece) |
Ubiquitous computing will have many and varied applications but will probably have its most significant impact on day-by-day living. “The most profound technologies are those that disappear,” wrote Mark Weiser. “They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” Over the past decade, researchers have sought to understand the ways ubiquitous technologies would affect different aspects of everyday activities including learning, entertainment, collaborative work and the home environment. Ultimately, new technologies will be used for conducting business. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the uses as well as the implications of ubiquitous commerce so that:
- They can share their understandings and experiences as well as recognize each other’s concerns.
- Forge interdisciplinary collaborations across research communities.
- Create effective channels of communication to transfer lessons learnt from one community to the other.
- Co-develop a roadmap for future research directions
This workshop will last for 1 full day and will be limited to a small number of participants to enable lively and productive discussions. Participants will be invited on the basis of position papers, which will be selected based on their originality, merit and topical relevance. We are currently seeking cooperation from an international journal to publish selected workshop papers.
Submission details:
Papers should be submitted to in Postscript or PDF format on or before August 8 to George Roussos (g.roussos@bbk.ac.uk). It is recommended that authors limit their submissions to no more than 6 pages, A4 or letter size.
Submission deadline: August 8 August 15
Notification: August 22
W12. Artifical Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2003)
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Antonio Krüger (Saarland University, Germany),
Rainer Malaka (Europian Media Lab, Germany) |
The AIMS 2003 workshop intends to bring together researchers working in various fields of AI, researchers from HCI and those working in the design of mobile applications and devices (wearable as well as environmental). The scope of interest includes but is not limited to:
- Location/context awareness
- Interaction metaphors and interaction devices for ubiquitous systems
- Smart user interfaces for mobile/ubiquitous systems
- Multi-modal interfaces for mobile/ubiquitous systems
- Situation adapted user interfaces
- Adaptation to limited technical and cognitive resources
- Fault tolerance
Submission details: max. of 8 pages, send to krueger@cs.uni-sb.de
Submission deadline: July 14
Notification: August 11
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