UbiComp / ISWC 2023
Recent News
Family Room and Sensory Rooms at UbiComp/ISWC 2023
As part of our JEDI Initiatives, we are happy to announce that UbiComp/ISWC 2023 will have dedicated space for families in our Family room, and a separate set of Sensory Rooms where people can unwind, relax and take a break.
The Family Room will feature spaces for breast feeding, changing babies, as well as space to hangout for kids who are going to attend with attendees. Sessions from the main conference will be streamed in the room, so that attendees needing to leave the main session can still follow the program. We are also considering having dedicated supervision / nanny services in the room.
The Sensory Rooms will be divided in 3 spaces – the Silent, Quiet, and Chill rooms, and will all feature different sensory experience with low lighting, and relaxing music, lounge-style ambience, and light drinks and food for people who need to take a break from the madness of the conference.
More details for both the Family Room and the Sensory Rooms will be released soon. For more information please reach out to our JEDI chairs at jedi-2023@ubicomp.org.
Gadget Show added to the Program (Oct 10)
We are happy to announce that UbiComp/ISWC 2023 will host the traditional Gadget Show on October 10, as part of the Opening Reception!
The Gadget Show is without registration. Just cue up at the beginning of the show and present your newest Gadget! We encourage also those that show a demo or a poster to show their Gadget to the audience.
Moderator
Paul Lukowicz is Full Professor of AI at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany where he is heading the Embedded Intelligence group at DFKI. His research focus are context-aware ubiquitous and wearable systems including sensing, pattern recognition, system architectures, models of large-scale self-organized systems, and applications. Paul Lukowicz coordinates the FP7-FET SOCIONICAL projects, is Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, and has been serving as TPC Chair of a number of international events in the area.
Plenary Panel on Resilience in an Era of Disruption (Oct 11)
We are happy to announce our plenary panel taking place on October 11th and moderated by Prof. Dr. Max Mühlhäuser!
Resilience in an Era of Disruption – Is Ubiquitous Computing a blessing or a curse for Resilient Cities and Infrastructures?
Major challenges such as global warming, pandemics, and geopolitical tensions increase the frequency and damage of disasters and crises: As the world faces disruptions, the resilience of cities and critical infrastructure becomes key.
Moderator
Max Mühlhäuser is a Full Professor of Computer Science and the head of the Telecooperation Lab (TK for short) at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Informatics Dept. His lab conducts research on smart ubiquitous computing environments in the Future Internet – from smart mixed-reality rooms to smart cities and smart & resilient critical infrastructures. He has extensively contributed towards these fields through innovations across Networks & Distributed Systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Proactive Intelligent Systems and Privacy, Trust & Cybersecurity.
Participate to the New GenAI4PC Symposium
In this new era of AI there are many open problems, including how we assess them and how we deploy them both efficiently and safely. The Generative AI for Pervasive Computing Symposium (GenAI4PC) aims to bring together both industrial and academic Ubiquitous Computing, researchers to explore these issues in a format that is focused on encouraging discussion and debate.
Partecipate to this new Symposium! More information available here.
Hotel and Transport Information Updated
New room blocks have been added for our conference hotels, and we added information to book airport transfer at conference rates. Also check out our daily shuttle that will allow attendees who prefer not to walk to get from the official conference hotels to the Cancun Center
https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp-iswc-2023/attending/#hotels
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Opening Keynote (October 10) – Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg
We are excited to announce our Opening Keynote speakers!
Join us on October 10 to hear from and be inspired by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg from Google People + AI Research (PAIR) and Harvard University.
You can find more information about our Keynote Speakers here.