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We are pleased to announce that the following eight workshops will be offered at Ubicomp 2009: The 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA, held September 30 - October 3, 2009. For information on submitting position papers, please refer to the websites of the individual workshops listed below.
Workshops website: http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009/acceptedworkshops.shtml
MELT 2009: The Second International Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking in GPS-less Environments
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Location-awareness is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to GPS, which is unavailable for indoor or underground facilities and unreliable in urban environments. Much research has been done, in both the sensor network community and the ubiquitous computing community, to provide techniques for localization and tracking in GPS-less environments. Novel applications based on ad-hoc localization and real-time tracking of mobile entities are growing as a result of these technologies. It is time to bring leaders from both the academic and industry research communities to discuss challenging and open problems, to evaluate pros and cons of various approaches, to bridge the gap between theory and applications, and to envision new research opportunities in MELT.
Website: http://melt09.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
Globicomp: Taking Ubicomp Beyond Developed Worlds
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The community's work to date has been focused on the so-called 'developed' world - contexts where there are already well-established technical infrastructures and digital resources. These contexts have users who are relatively highly computer literate, typically have high degrees of textual literacy and have undergone a formal education. Examples include sophisticated 'smart' homes with digital notice boards and even interactive fridge doors (Taylor et al, 2007); embedded technologies for amusement parks (Schnädelbach et al, 2008); and, cities and urban dwellers with time to, "marvel at mundane everyday experiences and objects that evoke mystery, doubt, and uncertainty. How many newspapers has that person sold today? When was that bus last repaired? How far have I walked today? How many people have ever sat on that bench? Does that woman own a cat? Did a child or adult spit that gum onto the sidewalk?" (Paulos & Beckmann 2006).
This workshop is about the billions of people who do not fit these sorts of context. There are hundreds of millions of users, and billions to come in the next 5 years, in places like India, China and Africa, whose first, and perhaps only, experience of computing will be in the form of mobile and other ubicomp technologies. Many of these users will never live in the sorts of home, or work in the types of office, or daydream in the parks, or take a day-off for the sorts of amusement park envisaged by earlier research.
Website: http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/globicomp2009/
DIPSO 2009: 3rd International Workshop on Design and Integration Principles for Smart Objects
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Tagging everyday objects with sensors, actuators and building an instrumented environment are recent practices in industry and academia. In fact, the smart object domain has matured over the years. The combination of Internet and technologies like near field communications, real time localization, sensor networking etc. is bringing smart objects into commercial use. Several successful prototypes and applications have already demonstrated and deployed. However, the lack of commonality among the design principles and the underlying infrastructures of these projects is hindering the exciting future of smart object systems. We believe the primary reason behind this phenomenon is one missing rationale for the design and integration of smart objects. Now it is the time to focus on current practices and align on some key issues to continue the rapid progress of smart objects. DIPSO 2009 seeks to follow the earlier DIPSO workshops, co-located with Ubicomp 2007 and Ubicomp 2008 and will look at the existing smart object systems to extract and extrapolate the best practices to rationalize the design and integration principles for smart objects. The major workshop activity will contain lively discussion phases structured around some concrete agendas. We promise to develop some research directions for smart objects design and integration research.
Website: http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk/workshops/DIPSO/DIPSO2009/
e-Nutrition 2009: 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Technologies for Nutrition Monitoring and Public Health
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The worldwide surge of overweight, obesity, and related cardiovascular diseases has been associated to calorie-rich diets, lack of dieting awareness, food quality, and sedentary lifestyle. Hence, dietary behavior has a critical impact on various health risks. Most importantly, overweight and obesity are not just limited to Western countries, but similarly affecting developing regions. Growing health and economic concerns have prompted public bodies to promote diet-related health policies.
The development of intelligent assistant technologies that support healthy dieting and lifestyle is a promising research topic in Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing. Various systems have been proposed to aid users in balancing their diet and controlling calorie intake. Approaches range from PDA-based diaries, Internet community platforms, to sensor-based automatic dietary monitoring. Besides acquiring dietary and lifestyle information, intelligent assistant systems can provide personalized feedback and behavior coaching. Eventually, such systems could complement existing diet and weight management programs. Nevertheless, designing effective dietary monitoring solutions and ubiquitously implementing intelligent assistants remain open research challenges.
Website: http://www.e-nutrition.org
Hybrid Design Practice: Situating Ubicomp's Interdisciplinarity
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The focus of this workshop is on hybrid design practices, approaches that draw on techniques from various fields to create novel methods of inquiry. The aims of this workshop are, first, to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of practitioners and researchers to learn from one another's expertise in choosing and evaluating methods of design practice, and, second, to discuss implications of the underlying methodologies and epistemologies upon which these techniques are built. Participants will actively contribute to the practical focus of the workshop; we will call for submissions detailing the practices participants leverage in their own work, from which we will select methods of research engagement that will further shape the workshop. Through hands-on field exploration of leisure activities in the public spaces of the Disney properties, design exercises, and brainstorming, participants will be actively involved with the application of a variety of methods to the study and design of ubiquitous computing systems from the ground-up. By leveraging methods and guiding theories that participants commonly use in their own work, we will explore the contrasts and intersections between the variety of approaches put forward by the participants. The goals of this workshop, then, are twofold; first, to open up a space for reflection on current approaches towards interdisciplinary research and design in Ubicomp, and second, to develop a new vocabulary, both practically and theoretically, for "making" interdisciplinary Ubicomp research, thus, marking the study of hybrid design practice as an area of community-wide inquiry.
Website: http://www.prusikloop.org/hybrid/
Architectural Robotics: An Emerging Case of Ubiquitous Computing in the Built Environment
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Robotics embedded in our built environment will increasingly support and augment everyday work, school, entertainment, and leisure activities. Archibots, a full-day workshop at Ubicomp, aims to identify opportunities and challenges in research and education in the emerging area of "Architectural Robotics" - intelligent and adaptable physical environments at all scales. For Archibots 2009, we seek position papers representing diverse perspectives from the extended ubicomp community exploring possibilities and defining an agenda for Architectural Robotics for the year 2019 and beyond. Workshop participants will discuss these perspectives and then, in teams, sketch short videos to envision possible futures. The collected videos of the workshop are intended to stream to the Video Program. The organizers plan to publish selected position papers as an edited book or special issue of a journal, and further relations with industry and allied disciplines.
Website: http://www.archibots.org/
PerEd 2009: Workshop on Pervasive Computing Education
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To bring the field of ubiquitous computing to maturity, it is important to address the educational aspects of the field, as well as its technical aspects. There is a growing need to better prepare students for graduate research and for positions in industry and government. Teaching the subject of ubiquitous computing requires innovation, however. It is truly a multidisciplinary field that includes aspects of human computer interaction, low-power system design, networking, wireless communication, computer architecture, operating systems, embedded system design, sensors and actuators, and, no doubt, other topics. Teaching such a multidisciplinary field and offering compelling design and research experiences to students in classes offers challenges to those in academia. Ubiquitous computing technology also presents new opportunities for improving teaching and learning.
The Second Workshop on Pervasive Computing Education will provide a forum to discuss requirements, barriers, and approaches to pervasive computing education and to present innovative courses and design projects in pervasive computing and communications, mobile computing and communications, wearable computing, ad hoc networking, and related topics. The workshop will be organized around the following themes:
Course content and approaches to teaching classes on pervasive computing and related topics;
* Lessons learned from relatively mature course offerings;
* Teaching materials, including textbooks and web-based content;
* The integration of research and teaching through projects;
* The use of pervasive computing tools, toolkits, and technology in education.
The all-day workshop will include a keynote, peer-reviewed papers, technology demonstrations, and work-in-progress presentations. The workshop will have an open format to encourage extended discussion of the presented works and emergent topics.
Website: http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~wgg/PerEd2009/index.html
UbiSys'09: System Support for Ubiquitous Computing
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The goal of this workshop is to promote cooperation between ubicomp systems researchers and to address the challenges related to the wider deployment and interoperability of ubicomp systems. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers in this field to discuss the state-of-the-art and to foster discussions and inspire novel techniques for unifying the underlying system platforms for ubicomp. Key issues of discussions will include developing and revising common sets of abstractions of ubicomp environments for supporting ubiquitous applications and services, wide-deployment strategies, and interoperability between different platforms. Currently, the evaluation of ubicomp systems is not well established. For effective deployment of ubicomp systems, we must propose techniques and benchmarks for evaluation that is best suited to our kind of research.
Website: http://ubisys.ccis.edu.sa
About Ubicomp:
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Ubicomp is the premier outlet for novel research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of research and development that utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds. The Ubicomp 2009 program features keynotes, technical paper sessions, specialized workshops, live demonstrations, posters, video presentations, panels and a Doctoral Colloquium. We are seeking your innovative and impacting contributions and look forward to welcome you in Orlando next year.
For general inquiries about workshops, please contact Jakob Bardram, Workshops Chair, at bardram@itu.dk<mailto:bardram@itu.dk>. For inquires about the Ubicomp Conference, please contact Sumi Helal, General Chair, at chair2009@ubicomp.org<mailto:chair2009@ubicomp.org>.
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