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Call for Pervasive 2011 Workshop Papers
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The accepted workshops for Pervasive 2011 - the 9th International
Conference on Pervasive Computing - can be found below.
The list of workshops is also available online at:
http://pervasiveconference.org/2011/workshops.html
Important dates:
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- Paper submission deadline: February 4, 2011
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 11, 2011
- Workshops: June 12, 2011
The following workshops have been accepted:
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W1: Third International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
Interaction and Mobile Phone Use
Website : http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/iwssi2011/
Mobile devices in general, and mobile phones in particular, 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. Privacy and
security are often in conflict with another and have been the topic of many
research projects. Emerging mobile payment and ticketing solutions require the
secure transmission and storage of financial information, while electronic
health records or access certificates/tokens might imply the use of highly
sensitive personal information on such devices. Securing the potentially
massive amount of interactions using mobile devices is difficult, because
typically there will be no a priori shared information such as passwords,
addresses, or PIN codes between the phone, its user, and the service they want
to use. Additionally, mobile devices often lack powerful user interfaces to
support classical authentication methods.
The 3rd International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU'2011) provides a forum to
discuss these challenges and to put forward an agenda for future research. The
workshop is intended to foster cooperation between research groups and to
establish a highly connected research community. Authors of selected workshop
submissions will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue
in a renowned international journal.
Organizers:
* Rene Mayrhofer
* Marc Langheinrich
* Alexander De Luca
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W2: First International Workshop on Frontiers in Activity Recognition using
Pervasive Sensing
Website : http://di.ncl.ac.uk/iwfar/
Activity recognition (AR) emerged as a key area of research in pervasive
computing and plays a central role in the field's vision of developing context-
aware systems and interaction. The general objective for current activity
recognition systems is to analyze continuous sensor data streams and to detect
and discriminate certain activities of interest, and to reject portions of
sensor data that cover unknown or idle activities. A wealth of algorithmic
approaches to activity recognition have been developed that employ state-of-
the-art signal processing and machine learning techniques. Reviewing the
current literature in the field may give the impression that the general
problem of activity recognition has almost been solved. State-of-the-art AR
systems achieve recognition rates of well beyond 80 or 90 percent across
tasks. This opens up the question which other - more challenging - activity
recognition problems should be addressed in the future. More generally
speaking, this also relates to the question how a future AR system should look
like. What will be the challenges of AR that go beyond the aforementioned
classification approach and could, for example, comprise a quantitative measure
of the quality of performing an activity rather than only detecting an
activity?
IWFAR 2011, a satellite workshop of Pervasive 2011, is supposed to focus on
new "frontiers in activity recognition using pervasive sensing" in the
aforementioned sense. We want to stimulate and explore the creativity of the
community regarding new applications and approaches to AR. The latter could
comprise radically new procedures like, for example, biologically inspired AR
methods or rigorously exploiting general time-series analysis approaches (e.g.
from the financial domain). Recent publications in the AR community represent
quite promising starting points (cf. e.g. time-delay embedding for the
analysis of repetitive activity patterns, which was inspired by the physics of
complex systems). IWFAR 2011 provides a forum for researchers and
practitioners to gather and present new ideas, and discuss aspects related to
applications and techniques that go beyond classic activity recognition.
Covering a more or less "emerging" field, expected contributions would also
cover more speculative ideas that are too specific for the broader audience of
the main conference. We solicit high-quality technical papers that shall be
presented orally while leaving enough time for discussions.
Organizers:
* Thomas Ploetz (Newcastle University, UK)
* Daniel Roggen (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
* Andreas Bulling (University of Cambridge and Lancaster University, UK)
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W3: First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA)
Website : http://purba.mit.edu
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. 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.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss
and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the
pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. We are seeking multi-
disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life
and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit
citizens, urban planners, and policy makers.
Organizers:
* Francesco Calabrese, MIT
* Santi Phithakkitnukoon, MIT
* Dominik Dahlem, MIT
* Giusy Di Lorenzo, MIT
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W4: First Workshop on Hybrid Pervasive/Digital Inference
Website : TBA
Two different lines of research have developed around the topic of making
inferences from data. One line arises from the analysis of physical data
captured directly by sensors of real-world behaviors. These data include
streams of GPS and WiFi sensors, accelerometers, compasses, gyroscopes, audio,
and video, which are often processed to infer location, motion, co-presence,
and identity. Another line arises from data captured about online behaviors.
These include email messages, web browsing histories, application traces, and
keystroke loggers, online calendars, document repositories, tagging databases,
and social networks. Analysis of online data sources is performed to infer
topics of interest, retrieve information, and enhance collaboration.
We see these two data stream types coming together in the near future.
Smartphones have made it easy to collect physical data about people. Web 2.0
technologies have encouraged users to curate more information online.
Together, these colliding trends will inferences more accurate, more detailed,
more "24-7" than ever before, and will make completely new kinds of inferences
possible.
Organizers:
* Kurt Partridge
* Oliver Brdiczka
* Judy Kay
* Bob Kummerfeld
* Paul Lukowicz
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W5: Second International Workshop on the Web of Things
Website : http://www.webofthings.com/wot/2011
The world of embedded devices has experienced radical changes; real-world
objects such as home appliances, industrial machines and wireless sensor and
actuator networks embed powerful computers which often can connect to the
Internet. Likewise, more and more common objects are being tagged with RFID
tags or barcodes. Considering the recent progress in mobile communications
(increased bandwidth for cell phone networks, as well as urban wireless
broadband networks), Internet access will very likely become a commodity
accessible from most real-world devices. This convergence of physical
computing devices (wireless sensor networks, mobile phones, embedded
computers, etc.) and the Internet provides new design opportunities and
challenges, as digital communication networks will soon not only contain
virtual data (images, text, etc.), but also real objects. While the "Internet
of Things" has become a well-known brand for a set of research issues in the
pervasive and ubiquitous computing communities, the focus of this research
theme has been on establishing connectivity in a variety of challenging and
constrained networking environments.
Our hypothesis is that the "Web of Things" is the next logical step in the
ongoing evolution of how pervasive and ubiquitous computing have enabled new
applications and provided new opportunities. The Web of Things takes the next
step from establishing connectivity and thus the ability to communicate with
Things, to a vision where Things become seamlessly integrated into the Web,
not just through Web-based user interfaces of specific applications, but by
simply blending into the information space created by the Web and its
architectural principles. The "Web of Things" solicits contributions in the
areas of architectures for a Web of things, decentralization, services, Web-
scale applications, as well as questions of user interface and interaction
design, where a Web of Things requires application designers to think beyond
standard Web browsers and embrace alternative clients such as mobile devices
or even more constrained environments.
Organizers:
* Dominique Guinard (ETH Zurich / MIT Auto-ID Labs)
* Vlad Trifa (ETH Zurich / MIT)
* Erik Wilde (UC Berkeley)
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W6: First Workshop on Emerging Mobile Sensing Technology, System, and
Application
Website : http://sites.google.com/site/mobisense2011/home
Mobile sensing is rapidly gaining attentions in research and industry due to
the proliferation of mobile devices equipped with increasing number of
sensors, and widespread of sensor based mobile applications. Mobile sensing
applications have penetrated into many application domains such as
fitness/health, gaming and entertainment, security and privacy, navigation,
mobile search and advertising, by taking advantages of the availability of
multiple sensors on state-of-the-art mobile devices. In the era of
breakthroughs on intelligent pervasive and mobile computing, practitioners and
researchers have to address new challenges and requirements in order to meet
the ever-growing demands for pervasive intelligent computing systems, and
context aware mobile devices.
MobiSense is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and
practitioners from academia and industry, to share practical
implementations/experiences related to emerging mobile sensing technologies,
mobile sensing systems/platforms, and novel sensing applications, and to
discuss future trends in research and applications.
Organizers:
* Larry (Weidong) Shi, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto
* Jun Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto
* Yingen Xiong, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto
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W7: First International Workshop on Smart Mobile Applications
Website : http://www.mobile.ifi.uni-
muenchen.de/aktuelles/smartapps2011/index.html
Mobile computing is a related area of pervasive computing. Mobile applications
are rapidly developing and becoming more and more important.
Currently, smartphones with more advanced computing capabilities and
connectivity than classic mobile phones offer more functionalities and run
smarter applications. Mobile platforms comprise an increasing number of
different sensors such as photosensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes etc, thus
allowing sophisticated contextualized applications. In addition, users as well
as developers benefit from an increasing number of market places and online
stores for mobile applications. The concept of a mobile "app" that can be
purchased via centralized hubs is already very common among the growing number
of users.
Specifically, we solicit original research contributions in the following
areas:
* App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms
* Context-Matching, Context-Aggregation and Reasoning
* Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Mobile Applications
* Mobile Social Networks
* Ensuring Privacy and Security for Enterprise Applications
* Cross-Platform Software Design and Development
Organizers:
* Claudia Linnhoff-Popien (LMU Munich, Germany)
* Stephan Verclas (T-Systems International GmbH, Germany)
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W8: Intelligibility and Control in Ubicomp
Website : http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/pervasive-intelligibility/
Due to the proactive and complex dynamics of pervasive computing applications,
it is important that systems are intelligible to allow end-users to understand
“what the systems know, how they know it, and what they are doing”.
Furthermore, these systems should put end-users at the center of control by
empowering them to better co-ordinate, control, and personalize pervasive
systems. Intelligibility and control are crucial to improve the usability of
these novel, and possibly unintuitive, systems and to help users understand,
appreciate, trust, and ultimately adopt them. With this workshop, we seek to
provide a forum for exchanging design principles, programming techniques,
toolkits and insights derived from real world studies towards building
intelligible and user-controllable pervasive computing systems. Drawing upon
the state-of-the-art, our goal is to refine existing and identify new
directions for research in intelligibility and control for pervasive computing
that will foster further work in the community.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Novel applications in pervasive computing highlighting intelligibility
and/or user-driven control.
* Programming techniques (e.g., design patterns, models), algorithms,
architectures and toolkits to support intelligibility and/or control.
* Interaction techniques and user interfaces to support intelligibility
and/or control, including information visualization techniques to help users
better interpret explanations from pervasive computing applications.
* User studies exploring design principles to build intelligible pervasive
systems.
* Intelligible smart objects.
* Evaluation metrics and methods to assess support for intelligibility and
control in pervasive computing systems.
We intend to communicate the results of the workshop to the larger pervasive
computing community by submitting an article to a magazine (e.g., IEEE
Pervasive). If the papers and discussions reflect sufficient progress and
cohesiveness, we will try to work toward producing a special issue of a
journal or possibly an edited book.
Organizers:
* Jo Vermeulen, Hasselt University, Belgium
* Brian Y. Lim, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
* Fahim Kawsar, Bell Labs, Belgium and Lancaster University, UK
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W9: 2nd Workshop on Programming Models for Mobile and Pervasive Systems.
Website : http://www.stevens.edu/pmmps/
Pervasive mobile computing is here, but how these devices and services should
be programmed is still something of a mystery. Programming mobile and
pervasive applications is more than than building client-server or peer-peer
systems with mobility, and it is more than providing usable interfaces for
mobile devices that may interact with the surrounding context. It includes
aspects such as disconnected and low-attention working, spontaneous
collaboration, evolving and uncertain security regimes, and integration into
services and workflows hosted on the internet. In the past, efforts
have focused
on the form of human-device interfaces that can be built using mobile and
distributed computing tools, or on human computer interface design based on,
for example, the limited screen resolution and real estate provided by a
smartphone. Much of the challenge in building pervasive systems is in bringing
together users' expectations of their interactions with the system with the
model of a physical and virtual environment with which users interact in the
context of the pervasive application.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers in programming
languages, software architecture and design, and pervasive systems to present
and discuss results and approaches to the development of mobile and pervasive
systems. The goal is to begin the process of developing the software design
and development tools necessary for the next generation of services in dynamic
environments, including mobile and pervasive computing, wireless sensor
networks, and adaptive devices.
Organizers:
* Dominic Duggan, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
* Simon Dobson, University of St Andrews UK
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W10: 4th Workshop on Pervasive Advertising
Website : TBA
The overall topic of the workshop is the application of Pervasive Computing
technologies for advertising purposes. This topic is of particular interest at
this time because advertising is considered by multiple researchers as one
main business models for pervasive computing and has recently been called the
"Killer application for the 21st century". The market is rapidly growing, and
major companies (Apple iAd, JCDecaux, Wall, ClearChannel, Google etc.) are
invested in pervasive advertising projects. The main hinderance today is that
advertisers lack the technological skills, and pervasive computing researchers
and practitioners lack the advertising knowledge and experience. Furthermore,
these groups rarely talk to each other.
Based on the success of previous workshops we envision to continue and further
establish the workshop series as a prime venue bringing together people from
academia and practice, hence driving forward research in the field of Pervasive
Advertising. We believe that our research community has a responsibility to
contribute towards a joint understanding of how pervasive advertising of the
future will look like. To this end, this workshop looks at the future of
advertising from the perspective of pervasive computing. It aims to provide a
foundational structure for the field and will attempt to sketch a roadmap for
further research and deployment challenges in this domain.
Organizers:
* Jörg Müller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
* Florian Alt, University of Duisburg-Essen
* Daniel Michelis, Anhalt University
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University of Cambridge
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