FSEA 2015: Fostering Smart Energy Applications workshop at INTERACT 2015
15 September 2015, Bamberg, Germany
http://it4se.informatik.fh-augsburg.de/FSEA15/
Revised paper submission deadline: 3 May 2015
About the Workshop
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As our reliance on energy is increasing rapidly, and worldwide
non-renewable energy resources are depleting, it has become necessary to
develop more advanced technologies to better manage and reduce our
energy consumption. Many such technologies now exist for both domestic
and commercial use. These include tools and services for public
displays, dashboards, mobile apps, web-portals, simulation tools,
computer games, etc.
There is, however, a lack of coordinated effort in terms of research,
design, development, and deployment of smart energy-related
applications. It is therefore becoming important to foster and
coordinate these activities through more targeted gatherings and
publications focusing on smart applications for energy systems.
This workshop aims to fill this existing gap by bringing together
researchers and practitioners from energy-related domains, as a follow
up to a very successful workshop held last year (FSEA at AVI 2014).
Workshop Theme and Structure
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The theme of this workshop is interaction techniques, interfaces, and
visualizations for energy-related applications, tools, games, and services.
This one-day workshop will include short presentations of accepted
position papers, discussion sessions, and a hands-on design exercise
session, during which the workshop participants will be divided into
small groups and invited to design an interactive application for energy
usage management and visualization.
Call for Participation
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We invite researchers and practitioners from a range of backgrounds,
including interaction design, human-computer interaction, visualization,
computer games, media technology, and domain experts from energy-related
application areas.
Interested participants should submit a position paper reporting their
contributions to the field of the workshop and highlight their specific
interests in the workshop topics. These topics include, but are not
limited to, design and evaluation of visual interfaces for:
- monitoring and managing energy generation and consumption,
- analysis of energy generation and consumption data,
- identifying consumption patterns and behaviour,
- relating energy consumption to other information,
- sharing and comparing energy-use data with others,
- simulation systems and gamification approaches,
- influencing choices and stimulating sustainable behavior changes.
Position papers for the workshop should be no more than 6 pages long,
and prepared according to the INTERACT adjunct proceedings format
(University of Bamberg Press format, with templates available at:
http://www.interact2015.org/files/UBP_Word_Template.zip). Workshop
submissions should be made via Easychair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsea2015).
The workshop program committee will review the submitted position
papers, and select 10-15 papers for presentation at the workshop based
on their quality and relevance to the workshop topics.
Depending on space availability, other interested attendees of the
INTERACT conference without a position paper are also welcome to join
this workshop.
Expected Outcome and Dissemination
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The accepted workshop position papers will be included in the official
adjunct conference proceedings published by the University of Bamberg
Press. The position papers will also be made available through the
workshop website.
The workshop participants will be invited to submit an extended version
of their position papers for a special issue of a journal (the proposal
for this is currently being reviewed by the journal editors).
Important Dates
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Paper submission deadline (revised): 3 May 2015
Notification of acceptance (revised): 18 May 2015
Camera-ready version: 5 June 2015
Early registration: 30 June 2015
Workshop date at INTERACT: 15 September 2015
Workshop Chairs
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Masood Masoodian – The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Elisabeth André – Augsburg University, Germany
Thomas Rist – University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany
Program Committee
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Elisabeth André, Augsburg University, Germany
Mark Apperley, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Lyn Bartram, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow, UK
Luciano Gamberini, University of Padova, Italy
Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland
Cecilia Katzeff, Interactive Institute Swedish ICT, Sweden
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Masood Masoodian, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Thomas Rist, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany
Bill Rogers, The University of Waikato, New Zealand
Manfred Tscheligi, ICT&S Center, University of Salzburg, Austria
Kent B. Wittenburg, MERL – Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
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A/Prof. Masood Masoodian
www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~masood
