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[dbjapan] Pervasive 2008 Workshops Call for Papers


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                    Call for Workshop Papers
                         Pervasive 2008
               The Sixth International Conference
                     on Pervasive Computing
                      Sydney, Australia
                        May 19-22, 2008
                    http://pervasive2008.org/
 
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Workshops @ Pervasive 2008
 
Workshops provide a forum for people to discuss areas of special interest
within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and practitioners.
Workshops afford the participants the opportunity to examine an area with
a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of views.
The day-long workshops will be held prior to the main conference on Monday,
May 19, 2008 or right after on Thursday, May 22, 2008.
 
The following workshops have been planned:
 
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CAPC2008: Workshop on Context-Aware Pervasive Communities
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The pervasive computing vision calls for computation, sensing and networking
to be ubiquitous, whether with users or embedded into everyday living environments.
A result of ubiquitous networking and computational ability is to form digital
boundaries around entities. As such, communities, whether geographically
transcending or based at a place, formed with a priori agreements or ad hoc via
simply a collocation of interacting devices members, transient or long-living,
can form a digital matrix or space in which its participants interact, provide
services or utilize services.
 
 

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CASEMANS 2008
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The CASEMANS 2008 workshop strives to investigate the role of past and present
as well as future contextual information (where a contextual information describes
the dynamic aspects of people, places, devices, platforms, networks, etc.) to
develop self-managing devices, middleware, database, applications and networks
as well as to enable dynamic cooperation and collaboration between devices to
carry out a distributed, autonomous task. The workshop particularly solicits
papers which demonstrate the modelling of a context along with other system
components and workflows when self-managing applications, devices and networks
are developed.
 
 

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Curious Places: Workshop on Self-Aware Systems for Intelligent Environments
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With the ubiquity of digital technology comes increasing expectations of the
responsiveness of our environment to our actions. We look towards intelligent
environments and systems that can not only respond and adapt to our actions,
but pro-actively support and enhance our everyday activities. This workshop
will investigate intelligent environments as pervasive, self-aware computing
systems that may exhibit curiosity, creativity, competence or other aspects
of natural systems. The workshop will be a forum for the discussion of novel
models, tools, infrastructure, architectures and techniques that extend
pervasive computing to self-aware, adaptive systems.
 
 

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IMUx 2008: Workshop on Improved Mobile User Interaction
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Current interfaces of mobile devices are rather limited when adaptability,
context-awareness and proactiveness are considered. For example, they do not
utilize the context of the interaction, nor the environmental changes in the
user's proximity or the capabilities of the device itself. To improve usability
and to provide a better user experience, the interfaces of the devices should
become more intelligent and require less intentional user inputs. To improve
the dialogue between the different research areas and their practitioners,
the workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the fields of user
modeling, user interaction and user experience, with developers of mobile
and ubiquitous applications.
 
 

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Pervasive Health
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Pervasive technology is increasingly prevalent within the health sector.
Clinicians are well known as early adopters of technologies that improves
patient care and clinical practice. We are seeing increasing collaboration
between health providers, high-tech ICT laboratories and research institutions.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together health care professionals
(pervasive technology early adopters), industry practitioners (pervasive technology
real-world developers) and researchers (pervasive technology explorers) to interact
and discuss issues and trends in relation to deployment and adoption of pervasive
technologies in health care.
 
 

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PERMID 2008: Pervasive Mobile Interaction Devices
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Interaction research on the pervasive mobile devices is a rather young and rapidly
developing field. So far mobile handheld devices have been mostly used for phone calls,
messaging and organizer functionalities. However, mobile multimedia features,
device-integrated sensors and improving data transfer capabilities are expanding
their use to ever increasing application areas. Mobile devices offer great potential
to develop new interaction methods and applications for pervasive computing. They can
function as a mediator between the virtual and the physical world, as an accessible
user interface for smart environments, and platforms for location or context-aware
application, to mention a few.
 
 

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Pervasive Computing @ Home
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The Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop will focus on Pervasive Technology as applied
specifically to a home environment. We will discuss what distinguishes the home from
other sites of technological innovation, approaches to studying behavior in a home
setting including in-situ studies and living laboratories, and lessons learned from
building and studying pervasive technologies intended for use in homes. We encourage
participants who have previously placed technology in the home or living laboratory
or who are planning on doing so in the future to apply to this workshop.
 
 

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Pervasive _expression_: Pervasive Visual, Auditory and Alternative Modality Information Display
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Pervasive display technology often experiments beyond the use of simple LCD or pixel-based
displays, instead utilizing a wide set of alternative output technologies such as LED
light arrays, e-textiles, electroluminescent wires, thermo-chromatic inks, shape-changing
materials, inflatables, smell emitters, tangible feedback mechanisms or complex sound
generators. Although recent advances in pervasive technology have advanced knowledge
about sensor data interpretation, context recognition and their applications, still
much more needs to be known about how information can be communicated back to the user
in an expressive but pervasive way. The development, implementation and use of such
technology inherently encounters important considerations, such as privacy, ethics,
usability, control, comprehensibility, engagement and technical development, spanning
a spectrum from informative representation to artistic experience.
 
 

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Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability
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Environmental sustainability and climate change are issues which must no longer be ignored
by anyone, any industry or any academic community. The pervasive technology, ubiquitous
computing and HCI community is slowly waking up to these global concerns. The key theme
of this workshop around environmental sustainability will be addressed threefold:
(1) How to go beyond just informing and into motivating and encouraging
action and change. (2) Pervasiveness can easily turn invasive. We want to start
re-considering the impact of pervasive technology from an ecological perspective.
(3) Digital divide between humans and the environment: Can the process of 'blogging
sensor data' assist us in becoming more aware of the needs of nature? How can we
avoid the downsides?
 
 

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SPMU'08 �C Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use
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Mobile phones present unique challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life,
and form factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users’ privacy and security.
Applications such as mobile payment and ticketing solutions, electronic
health records, and collaborative applications and games, will require novel
means to protect and exchange both sensitive and public information about users.
This is further complicated by the fact that there is hardly any a-priori information
about potential communication partners. This workshops aims at bringing together
researchers interested in exploring security and privacy issues in mobile phone
usage―not only on a platform level, but on both the physical and social network
level as well.
 
 
 
 
 
 
On behalf of the Pervasive 2008 conference, we look forward to your
contribution. For more information, please visit http://www.pervasive2008.org/
 
Sincerely,
 
Alex Varshavsky, University of Toronto, Canada
Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich/AutoID-Labs, Switzerland
Zhiwen Yu, Kyoto University, Japan
 
Pervasive 2008 Publicity Chairs
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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 [at] ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yu/
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