As someone who has moved from graphic design to a PhD in human-
computer interaction, I tend to lurk on this list. However, in the
spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration, I want to promote
submissions to Ubicomp 2008. Though mostly an engineering/system
design conference, attendance has been growing among architects and
interaction designers over the past few years. It would be great to
see more. Ubicomp posters/demos might be a good place for students
who may want to show working projects or get advice on how prototyped
designs could be fully implemented.
Submission deadlines are in April and beyond, so there's plenty of
time to think about it -- just wanted to give a heads-up.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
http://www.ubicomp.org
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UbiComp 2008 welcomes original, high-quality research contributions that
advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment,
evaluation
and understanding of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) systems. Ubicomp
is an
interdisciplinary field of study that includes pervasive, wireless,
embedded,
wearable and/or mobile technologies that bridge the gaps between the
digital and
physical worlds, useful applications that incorporate these
technologies,
infrastructures that effectively support them, human activities and
experiences
these technologies facilitate, and conceptual overviews that help us
understand –
or challenge our understanding of – the impact of these technologies.
The
UbiComp conference is a premier international venue in which novel
results in
these areas are presented and discussed among leading researchers,
designers,
developers and other practitioners in this field.
Relevant areas of inquiry include (but are not limited to):
* devices - descriptions of the design, architecture, usage and
evaluation of new
sensors or other devices that create valuable new capabilities for
ubicomp
systems
* systems – applications that incorporate or integrate ubicomp
devices in ways
that offer compelling value for users, and algorithms and
infrastructures that
effectively support such applications
* user experiences - empirical investigations of the use of new or
existing
ubicomp technologies with clear relevance to the design and
deployment of
future ubicomp systems
* theories & models - critical analysis or organizing theory with
clear relevance to
the design or study of ubicomp systems
* methodologies & tools - new methods and tools applied to studying
or building
ubicomp systems
Although it is expected that papers will focus on one or a small
number of these
areas, authors should write for the broader ubicomp audience, and
make clear
how their work contributes to the field as a whole. Authors are
advised to refer to
previous papers at UbiComp to gauge the writing style and audience
background.
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