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Recognised evaluation strategies are essential in order that the contribution of new techniques can be quantified objectively. Experience has shown that evaluating ubiquitous systems is extremely difficult; approaches tend to be subjective, piecemeal or both. Individual approaches to evaluation risk being incomplete and comparisons between systems can be difficult. Several interesting questions and discussion points arose as a result of last year's workshop: * We have a pressing need for realistic, interesting, non-trivial demonstrator scenarios * How do we overcome difficulties in developing repeatable experiments and user studies that rely on real-world context? * Is it possible to categorise the features of UbiComp systems? Can we match a set of evaluation techniques to each feature? * How can we evaluate systems that adapt to their users (e.g., by learning their preferences) * How might we address the impact on privacy when we release datasets? * How can we evaluate user response to technology they are not supposed to be aware of? (i.e., the disappearing computer) * Is it possible to define a suite of techniques and guidelines for their application to form a general framework for the evaluation of UbiComp systems? * How can we make techniques available and accessible for others to use in evaluation of their research? USE '08 will consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers that will be selected based on their technical merit and potential to stimulate discussion. Presentations will be followed by structured discussion on the merits of proposed techniques and their appropriateness for inclusion in a UbiComp Systems evaluation framework. We seek submissions of 4-6 pages in length. A summary of last year's workshop will be published later this year in IEEE Pervasive Computing. It is the intention of the workshop organisers to do similar this year. Topics of interest: Given the diversity of work in UbiComp systems, this workshop will cover a broad range of themes. We solicit submissions that address issues including, but not limited to, the following: - Demonstrator Scenarios (with associated metrics for evaluation) * personal area networks * smart spaces * metropolitan area systems * fixed and ad hoc infrastructures * sensor-rich and sensor-sparse environments - Frameworks and methodologies that enable comparative evaluation of features of UbiComp middleware and systems, such as: * scalability * security and privacy * data management * data distribution - Experience papers * working with experimental environments * difficulties encountered and lessons learned while evaluating UbiComp projects * results and comparison techniques - Human factors * comparing the benefits and limitations of using in-situ/lab-based/virtual-based techniques for studying user interaction with different classes of application * techniques for the comparative evaluation of personal or user-driven experiences * measuring user load, ease of use, learning curves, etc. * evaluating user understanding of system behaviour * quantifying acceptable system reaction times - Promoting comparative evaluation * Public data sets for UbiComp * Benchmarks * Matching evaluation techniques to features of UbiComp applications Submission: We solicit submissions of papers between 4-6 pages, prepared using 2-column ACM SIGCHI format. Microsoft Word and LaTeX templates are available for download from the workshop website (http://www.useworkshop.org). All submissions should be made in PDF format and sent to [log in to unmask] Important Dates: July 07, 2008 - Submission deadline July 25, 2008 - Notification of acceptance August 08, 2008 - Camera-ready for accepted papers September 21, 2008 - Workshop date Programme Chairs: Graeme Stevenson (University College Dublin) Steve Neely (University College Dublin) Christian Kray (University of Newcastle) Publicity Chair: Adrian Clear (University College Dublin) Programme Committee: Kay Connelly (University of Indiana) Lorcan Coyle (University College Dublin) Richard Glassey (University of Strathclyde) Robert Grimm (New York University) Jeffrey Hightower (Intel Research) Marc-Olivier Killijian (LAAS-CNRS) Ingrid Mulder (Rotterdam University & Telematica Instituut) Nitya Narasimhan (Motorola) Trevor Pering (Intel Research) Aaron Quigley (University College Dublin) Anand Ranganathan (IBM Research) Katie A. 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