Workshops

Workshops at UbiComp provide an opportunity to discuss and explore emerging areas of ubiquitous computing research with a group of like-minded researchers and practitioners. This year at UbiComp we are particularly happy to announce a strong workshop program, with both well-known recurrent workshops that address core UbiComp topics, as well as new exciting workshops picking up on novel fascinating themes.

Workshop attendees need to explicitly register for the workshop, which will include a separate workshop fee. A registration for the main conference can be purchased in addition but is not required to attend the workshops. Workshop titles and organizers are listed below. General questions about the workshops can be addressed to the Workshop Chairs (workshops2013@ubicomp.org); specific questions about any individual workshop should be directed to the organiser(s) of the workshop.

All workshop papers are available via the following link:

http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2013/adjunct/starthere.htm

You can alternatively download all papers in a single 1.24GB ZIP-file: UbiComp2013_adjunct.zip

Workshop Program Overview

For the detailed program of each workshop, please consult the individual workshop web pages. However, all workshops will share the same coffee and lunch breaks according to the schedule shown in the following table:


Sept. 8 (Sunday)   Sept. 9 (Monday)
08:00 Registration Registration
09:00 Session 1 Session 1
10:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:00 Session 2 Session 2
12:30 Lunch Lunch
14:00 Session 3 Session 3
15:30 Coffee Break Coffee Break
16:00 Session 4 Session 4
18:00

Note that workshops can opt to end earlier or start later (or even start earlier!) - please consult the individual workshop web pages linked below for detailed schedules.


List of Accepted Workshops

Second Workshop on Wearable AR Systems for Industrial Applications

Organizers: Christian Bürgy and Holger Kenn
Held on: September 9
Workshop website: http://www.cubeos.org/wearia13/

In this second workshop on Wearable Systems for Industrial Augmented Reality Applications we will discuss the following topics, related to wearable computing and AR technologies: core technologies, such as hardware, AR development kits or AR-enabled software; software architectures and applications concepts; as well as business ideas and case studies of AR systems within the industrial context. Furthermore, with upcoming consumer wearables, such as Google Glass, we will compare requirements for such consumer-grade systems with requirements for systems designed for users in industrial environments. Some of the key questions will be: How much AR do we need? And how much AR can we stand?


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HomeSys 2013: Workshop on Design, Technology,
Systems and Applications for the Home

Organizers: A.J. Bernheim Brush, James Scott, and Sarah Mennicken
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/HomeSys2013/

HomeSys 2013 will be an inspiring, interactive, cross-disciplinary workshop for anyone conducting research into technology in homes. This includes anyone building novel systems, applications, or devices for the home, or studying existing or novel technology use in domestic settings, or anyone else with an interest in the intersection between technology and the home. Attendance at the workshop will not be limited, anyone may register and attend. To ensure any interactive and enjoyable exchange of ideas during the workshop, we have 4 contribution types: Visionary Presentations, Reflective Presentations, Videos and Posters. To encourage interactivity and discussion, the workshop will have plenary sessions for visionary and reflective presentations, as well as other sessions which may include keynote, discussion or breakout formats, in addition to the posters and videos. The workshop organizers have considerable research experience in this area and past experience organizing workshops. We plan to do personal outreach to encourage participation as well as publicizing the workshop through traditional channels.


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AwareCast 2013: Second Workshop on Recent Advances in Behavior Prediction and Pro-active Pervasive Computing

Organizers: Klaus David, Bernd Niklas Klein, Sian Lun Lau, Stephan Sigg, and Brian Ziebart
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://www.comtec.eecs.uni-kassel.de/awarecast/

Context prediction breaks the border from reaction on past and present stimuli to proactive anticipation of actions. Research directions spread from applications for context prediction over event prediction, architectures for context prediction, data formats, and algorithms. Recent work focuses on three main challenges: (1) Prediction beyond location, (2) Benchmarks and common data sets, and (3) Common development frameworks. While there have been contributions targeting some of these challenges, we still see them as unsolved. Thus we invite unique contribution addressing these challenges and provide a forum to facilitate collaboration among research groups focusing on context prediction.


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SOFTec 2013: Second Workshop on
Computer Mediated Social Offline Interactions

Organizers: Nemanja Memarovic, Vassilis Kostakos, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, and Albrecht Schmidt
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://uc.inf.usi.ch/events/softec13

In the age of online social networks, instant messaging, and email, social offline interactions seem destined to become an anachronism: as our use of electronic media increases, the number of hours per day that we interact directly with others “in the flesh” declines. Yet for all the power of synchronous and asynchronous remote communication, virtual interactions are hardly an adequate substitute. Recent studies show, e.g., that users of online social networking sites feel lonelier than non-users, and that people who have regular social offline interactions on a weekly basis enjoy a significantly reduction in mortality. Is there a way to have our cake and eat it, too? Can we design technology in such a way that its use comes not at the expense of social offline interaction, but supports it? The goal of this workshop is to examine how we can build technologies that promote offline interactions.


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UbiMI'13: Second International Workshop on
Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation

Organizers: Denzil Ferreira, Christian Koehler, Vassilis Kostakos, and Evangelos Karapanos
Held on: September 8-9, 2013
Workshop website: http://ubimi.blogspot.ch/

In this workshop, we bring together researchers who take advantage of the proliferation of mobile devices and use them as instruments for research on ubiquitous computing. We are especially interested in the mobile devices, systems, applications, methods and tools that were built to explore such rich datasets. More so, we want researchers to share their experiences, successes and frustrations on conducting research in such power and processing constrained devices in order to capture a state-of-art on theories, models, methodologies and tools that cope with these challenges.


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HiCUE 2013: Workshop on Human Interfaces
for Civic and Urban Engagement

Organizers: Simo Hosio, Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos, Keith Cheverst, and Yvonne Rogers
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://hicue2013.blogspot.fi/

How should citizens and communities interact with and in their city? Leveraging urban technology for civic purposes, such as citizen participation and community engagement, has been steadily gaining interest in HCI. Essentially, citizens can be empowered to be heard and engage the city better through the use of modern technology. Examples of these technologies are mobile phones, public displays, sensor networks, art installations, or any other type of urban technology. HiCUE '13 seeks to investigate the progress in creating public human interfaces for interactive urban engagement. Our workshop discusses issues such as citizen participation in public life and decision-making, informing citizens, and civic engagement in all its various forms.


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PURBA 2013: The Third International Workshop
on Pervasive Urban Applications

Organizers: Francesco Calabrese, Giusy di Lorenzo, Dominik Dahlem,
Santi Phithakkitnukoon, and Neal Lathia
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/purba2013/

Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. This constant stream of 0s and 1s allows unprecedented research opportunities. Through phone calls we can see cities making bold ‘handshakes’ during business hours, and then becoming introverted during the evening. With SMS texts, we can capture crowds cheering and sharing their emotional highs in special events. These digital traces also reveal the migratory magnetism of coastal city hotspots and the drudgery of a gridlocked commute. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in an astonishing degree of temporal and spatial detail. Yet this condition of the hybrid city – which operates simultaneously in the digital and physical realms – also poses difficult questions about privacy, scale, and design, among many others. These questions must be addressed as we move toward achieving an augmented, fine-grained understanding of how the city functions – socially, economically and yes, even psychologically.


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Atelier of Smart Garments and Accessories

Organizers: Maurizio Caon, Yong Yue, Giuseppe Andreoni, and Elena Mugellini
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/ateliersmartgarments/

Wearable computing represented an important paradigm shift in engineering and computer science. At the present time, wearable computing is undergoing a new paradigm shift: the wearable systems that used to be transportable devices are actually weaving itself into ‘the fabric of everyday life’ (as predicted by Weiser). Indeed, the current trend of wearable computing is integrating the technology directly in the garments without introducing new body-worn systems. Clothes, shoes, eye-glasses, bracelets and watches are becoming smarter, seamlessly embedding more and more powerful computational resources and communication possibilities. The change has already begun and this workshop aims to bring together researchers from the academia and the industry in order to establish a multidisciplinary community interested in discovering and exploring the challenges and opportunities coming from this natural evolution of wearable computing. Moreover, the Atelier of Smart Garments and Accessories aims to build a network of researchers dealing with the issues related to the design and development of smart garments and accessories in order to prepare joint projects, funding applications and work towards a series of workshops. The workshop will discuss the development of a coherent but multi-disciplinary research agenda for smart garments and agree detailed proposals for future work in the area.


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Green Food Technology: Ubicomp opportunities
for reducing the environmental impacts of food

Organizers: Adrian Clear, Rob Comber, Adrian Friday, Eva Ganglbauer, Mike Hazas, and Yvonne Rogers
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: http://www.scc.lancs.ac.uk/greenfoodtechworkshop/

Food production, distribution, consumption and waste accounts for a large proportion of global greenhouse gas emissions. There is potential to substantially reduce the environmental impacts of food with the support of digital technologies, but first a deeper understanding of the domain is necessary: sustainable food consumption presents interesting challenges for Ubicomp and HCI, given both the complexity of environmental impacts of foods (direct and embodied emissions spread across production, distribution, consumption and waste), and of everyday food practices that are e.g. socially, culturally, economically and practically defined. This complexity presents challenges, but it also offers many opportunities for technological intervention spanning the whole food consumption process. This workshop provides a forum researchers and practitioners from a diverse set of disciplines to come together to provide breadth of perspectives on food and sustainability; share understandings of existing food consumption practices and their carbon impacts; and to consider the challenges and opportunities for Ubicomp in supporting the emergence of more sustainable alternatives.


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Recognise2Interact: First Workshop on Human Factors and Activity Recognition in Healthcare, Wellness and Assisted Living

Organizers: Oliver Amft, Pierluigi Casale, and Steven Houben
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/recognise2interactworkshop/

The first workshop on Activity Recognition and Human Factors in Healthcare, Wellness and Assisted Living (Recognise2Interact) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Activity Recognition and Human Computer Interaction to disseminate the latest accomplished and/or ongoing researches focused on how activity recognition and context awareness can help to improve the interaction between humans and IT systems. The goal of the workshop is to bridge the gap between these two fields and to help in identifying opportunities and challenges for interested researchers, companies and system developers. The workshop will provide a comprehensive overview on current technological solutions that benefit from the synergy of activity recognition and human computer interaction with particular focus, but not limited to, Healthcare, Wellness and Assisted Living applications.


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ASPI 2013: International Workshop on Adaptive Security
& Privacy management for the Internet of Things

Organizers: Stefan Poslad, Mohamed Hamdi, and Habtamu Abie
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://asset.nr.no/asset/index.php/ASPI2013

The ASPI2013 workshop intends to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant fields to present and disseminate the latest on-going research focussing on adapting security, privacy & management for the Internet of Thing. It aims to facilitate knowledge transfer and synergy, bridge gaps between different research communities and groups, to lay down foundation for common purposes, and to help identify opportunities and challenges for interested researchers and technology and system developers.


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PeTRE: Workshop on Pervasive Technologies in Retail Environments

Organizers: Markus Löchtefeld, Petteri Nurmi, Florian Michahelles,
Carsten Magerkurth, Patrik Floréen, and Antonio Krüger
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: www.pervasive-retail.com

The workshop on Pervasive Technologies in Retail Environments (PeTRE) is the continuation of MIRE 2011 (held at MobileHCI 2011) and provides an established forum for researchers from academy and industry exploring how pervasive technologies can be embedded into retail environments to create new shopping experiences and services.


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HASCA 2013: International Workshop on Human Activity Sensing Corpus and its Application

Organizers: Nobuo Kawaguchi, Nobuhiko Nishio, Daniel Roggen, Kaori Fujinami, Susanna Pirttikangas
Held on: September 8, 2013
Workshop website: http://hasca2013.hasc.jp/

Recent advancement of technology enables installations of small sized accelerometers or gyroscopes on various kinds of wearable/portable information devices. By using such wearable sensors, these devices can estimate its posture or status. However, most of current devices only utilize these sensors for simple orientation and gesture recognition. More deep understandings and recognition of human activity through these sensors will enable the next-generation human-oriented computing. To enable the real-world application by these kinds of wearable sensors, a large scale human activity corpus might play an important role. Additionally, we have now a lot of high-performance mobile devices in real-world such as smart-phones. It is a great challenge to utilize such enormous number of wearable sensors to collect large-scale activity corpus. In recent years, there are several on-going projects which are collecting human activities. In this workshop, we are planning to share these experiences of current research on human activity corpus and its applications among the researchers and the practitioners and to have a deep discussion for future of activity sensing.


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CoSDEO 2013: Device-Free Radio-Based recognition

Organizers: Markus Scholz, Stephan Sigg, and Moustafa Youssef
Held on: September 9
Workshop website: http://cosdeo.teco.edu/2013/

The 4th CoSDEO-workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems, algorithms or models for the device-free, radio-based recognition of contexts. Recently, using analysis of signal distortions in a typical radio network to derive contexts such as location, type or activity of an object not outfitted with a radio, has received a growing amount of attention from researchers. The possibility to acquire context information without instrumenting users or installing special hardware and without the drawbacks of optical systems has great potential for typical applications of Ubiquitous Computing. The goal of CoSDEO 2013 is to provide a discussion venue for this growing community in which fundamental problems as well as sophisticated approaches and actual implementations can be presented. Thus, we like to encourage scientists in all stages of their research, from first experiments to readily developed and evaluated systems, to submit their original work to allow a broad discussion with established experts but also researchers relatively new to the field. Besides regular submissions, we also encourage submission of visionary papers which do not need to describe completed research but contain ideas new to the field. These may be related to novel techniques for the radio-based detection of contexts but also novel applications and designs of device-free radio-based context recognition systems.


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PUCAA 2013: First International Workshop on Pervasive Urban Crowdsensing Architecture and Applications

Organizers: Mani Srivastava and Archan Misra
Held on: September 9
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/pucaaworkshop2013/

Over the last couple of years, as the community and businesses have begun to realize the power of jointly harnessing nomadic mobile sensing and selective infrastructure-based ambient sensing, we are beginning to see the emergence of a class of “urban crowdsensing” platforms that perform pervasive sensing in a more coordinated fashion. Such combined sensing opens up the possibilities for exciting new applications in a variety of urban spaces, both outdoors (e.g., crowd coordination in theme parks, public safety monitoring in major public events, public health management) and indoors (e.g., healthcare, intelligent retail and promotions in shopping malls & energy-efficient building operations management). Driven by these trends, this workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of urban and crowd-driven sensing. We invite original research work focusing on large or innovative crowdsensing architectures, systems and platforms and their experiences on developing crowdsensing applications impacting urban lifestyles in a variety of areas such as personal (mHealth) and public healthcare, retail & commerce, transportation, public safety, crowd management, utility services, etc.


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MCSS 2013: Second Workshop on Mobile Systems
for Computational Social Science

Organizers: Nicholas Lane and Mirco Musolesi
Held on: September 9
Workshop website: http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/MCSS2013/

The goal of this one-day workshop is to bring together researchers working or interested in mobile systems for social analysis and applications. We wish to build a lively forum to propose and discuss recent advances in designing, implementing and evaluating this emerging class of mobile systems. The workshop will be open to contributions from researchers tackling these challenging research problems from different perspectives. The aim is to discuss the many open issues in this area trying to identify novel solutions to be investigated, also by means of collaborations among the participants of the workshop. We will welcome especially highly innovative and/or controversial contributions, debunking or confirming existing system design methodology, for example by means of new experimental results.


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WoT 2013: Fourth International Workshop on the Web of Things

Organizers: Simon Mayer, Vlad Trifa, Dave Raggett, and Dominique Guinard
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: http://www.webofthings.org/wot/2013/

Continuing the successful Web of Things workshop series, this workshop aims at further exploring the use of technologies and principles at the core of the Web to provide methods for a seamless integration of physical devices. In particular, our goal is to foster discussion on systems towards a real-time Web of Things and the discovery, search, and composition of services provided by Web-enabled things. The "Web of Things" workshop solicits contributions in all areas related to the Web of Things, and we invite application designers to think beyond sensor networks and Web applications, and to imagine, design, build, evaluate and share their thoughts and visions on what the future of the Web and networked devices will be.


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PerFab 2013: Workshop on Personal and Pervasive Fabrication

Organizers: Manfred Lau, Christian Weichel, Nicolas Villar
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: http://32leav.es/perfab/

Recently, technologies for fabricating real-world objects and products that can be designed and built directly by the end-user have decreased in costs and are increasingly common. These technologies are expected to have a great impact on society. However, there is a great need to explore many novel research challenges and issues before the idea of personal fabrication becomes truly pervasive and applicable to the wider public. Our workshop is aimed at facilitating discussion and exploration of these challenges. We encourage submissions of research papers, work-in-progress papers with interesting preliminary results, and position papers. Attendance at the workshop is not limited, as anyone may register and attend. The long-term goal is to gather a community of researchers and establish this workshop as a leading forum for research dissemination in the area.


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SenCity: Uncovering the Hideen Pulse of a City

Organizers: Sarah Gallacher, Vaiva Kalnikaitė, Julie McCann,
David Predergast, Jon Bird, Hans-Christian Jetter
Held on: September 9, 2013
Workshop website: http://sencity.cities.io/

This workshop aims to explore the use of sensing technologies for visually resurfacing some of the hidden dynamics of the city by providing a collaborative and facilitated environment for applied research and creative exploration. Participants will collaboratively apply practical research and creative flair at the SenCity workshop to sense, visualise and share the hidden pulse of Zürich.


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Call for Workshop Proposals

The deadline for Workshop Proposals has passed, but the original call can be found here.