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DOMe 2009 Call for Papers
1st International Workshop on Digital Object Memories (DOMe 2009)
July 19, 2009. Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on
Intelligent Environments (IE'09)
Submission Deadline: May 4, 2009
http://www.dfki.de/dome-workshop/
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Digital Object Memories comprise hardware and software components that physically and/or conceptually associate digital information with real-world objects in an application-independent manner. Such information can take many different forms (structured data and documents, pictures, audio/video streams, etc.) and originate from a variety of sources (automated processes, sensors in the environment, users, etc.). If constantly updated, Digital Object Memories over time provide a meaningful record of an object's history and use.
>From a technical point of view, Digital Object Memories provide an open-loop infrastructure for the exchange of object-related information across application and environment boundaries. Besides fostering information reuse and reducing the risk of information inconsistencies, they such allow for novel classes of applications in which rich object histories are created and exploited.
>From the user's point of view, Digital Object Memories create a new design space for everyday interactions. Digital Objects could become sites for their owners' personal stories, but also afford people the opportunity to explore an object's provenance and connections to other elements of physical and digital life. In this sense there is the potential for designers to augment or even transform our relationship with objects and the services that they mediate.
GOALS AND TOPICS
The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together technical experts, artists, designers, and potential end-users of Digital Object Memories in order to discuss technical, social, privacy, and legal implications of digital object memory systems, to establish a common view on requirements to digital memories, and to leverage cooperation in future activities.
Possible workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
* Architectures: General architectures and middleware approaches which allow for the realization of item memory functionality.
* Memory Content Representation and Modeling: Formats and methods for the representation and exchange of object memory content.
* Memory Creation: Technologies and concepts for the manual, semi-automatic, or automatic creation/capturing of memory content.
* Memory Mining: Algorithms to derive higher-order information like interaction patterns or state anomalies from object memories.
* Human Memory Access: Technologies, concepts, and interaction metaphors that make the content of object memories accessible to human users.
* Applications and Experiences: Application scenarios and existing implementations of digital object memory systems.
* Privacy and Legal Aspects: Discussion of topics like ownership of recorded data, access control, trustworthiness, or duration of storage.
* Social Implications: Discussion and studies related to possible implications of object memory systems on human relations to objects and other humans.
FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Accepted workshop papers will be published by IOS Press as a volume in the AISE series. Submission should follow a 1-column format and must not exceed 6 pages. Detailed format and submission instructions including style templates for MS Word and LaTex are provided at the workshop's website (http://www.dfki.de/dome-workshop/).
DESIGN STUDY AWARD
To promote creative thinking about how Digital Object Memories could transform our experience of the world around us, we are soliciting summaries of design studies. Professional artists & designers, researchers, and art & design students are encouraged to submit summaries of design concepts of up to 6 pages. We are looking for innovative, experimental and progressive ideas that will challenge the research community to consider broad landscape of potential applications of Digital Object Memories. Accepted entrants will have the opportunity to present their studies at the workshop, and these will be published in the workshop proceedings. The winning entrant will receive an award of up to 750 Euros towards registration, travel and accommodation.
IMPORTANT DATES
* May 4, 2009: Submission of manuscripts and design studies
* May 29, 2009: Notification of acceptance
* June 6, 2009: Early registration for workshop (and conference)
* June 14, 2009: Submission of revised camera-ready manuscripts
* July 19, 2009: Workshop
ORGANIZERS
* Michael Schneider (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
* Alexander Kroener (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany)
* Peter Stephan (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Patrick Olivier (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
FURTHER INFORMATION
Workshop website: http://www.dfki.de/dome-workshop/
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