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First workshop on
ATTENTION MANAGEMENT IN UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
Second Call for Contributions
Sunday September 16, Innsbruck, Austria
http://ac.aup.fr/roda/attention/Ubicomp2007/
To be held at UBICOMP 2007
9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Innsbruck, Austria 16-19 September 2007
WORKSHOP SCOPE
One of the challenges of ubiquitous computing is the coordination of different devices so that their interventions with the user(s) take into account ongoing (inter)actions and avoid overloading their sensory systems.
To this end, devices of different complexity levels must gain a coherent understanding of users' past and current (inter)actions, goals, preferences, social relationships, etc. in order to model users' attentional states.
Attention awareness has the special target of minimizing cognitive load by addressing issues such as: interruption management / notification optimization, individual versus group interaction, just-in-time information selection. Whilst "disappearing", i.e. minimizing cognitive load, has been the chief objective of ubiquitous computing, we feel that true adaptation to human cognitive abilities requires a better understanding of the reactive, deliberative, social, and aesthetic processes controlling attention allocation and of how they can be supported by technologies. Improving such understanding is the primary objective of this workshop.
Please see: http://ac.aup.fr/roda/attention/Ubicomp2007/
IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop submissions: until June 5th 2007 Notification of acceptance: June 22nd 2007 Camera ready due: July 1st 2007
Workshop: Sunday September 16
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
€ Models of human attention and their application to the design of ubiquitous computing environments; € User modelling for attention support in ubiquitous computing environments; € Interruption management; € Management of attention in collaboration (individual versus group cognitive load optimization); € Devices coordination aimed at attention management; € Information tagging for attention management; € Information visualization for attention management; € Evaluation strategies and methodologies for attention aware systems in ubiquitous computing environments; € Experimental measurements of system-induced cognitive load in ubiquitous computing environments; € Special devices for attention tracking in ubiquitous computing environments.
WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:
Claudia Roda - American University of Paris, Paris, France Mary Zajicek - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed):
Elisabeth André - Universität Augsburg, Augsburg Germany Danco Davcev - University of Skopje, Macedonia Sonja Gievska -George washington University, Washington DC, USA Eric Horvitz - Microsoft Research, USA Aulikki Hyrskykari - University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Christel Kemke - University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada Inge Molenaar - Ontdeknet, Amsterdam, NL Thierry Nabeth - Insead - Calt, Fountainbleau, France Kari-Jouko Raiha - University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland Georgi Stojanov - American University of Paris, Paris, France Julie Thomas - American University of Paris, France Goran Trajkovski - South University, Savannah, GA, USA Martin Wolpers - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium Sharon Wood - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
We would appreciate receiving expressions of interest with a tentative topic / title as soon as possible.
We will accept participants on the basis of workshop submissions that should include:
€ A position paper (max 2000 words)
€ Three short scenarios (max 500 words each) illustrating practical
applications of the issues addressed in the position paper
The papers and scenarios will undergo a blind review process. At most 10 papers with scenarios will be selected for oral presentation in the morning of the workshop. Additionally 10 papers with scenarios might be selected for inclusion in the workshop proceedings (however only the scenarios will be discussed at the workshop, see section "Workshop Format").
Selected attendees will be invited to submit for review revised versions of their papers for a special journal issue. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the workshop, the journal to be approached will depend upon the topic areas covered by the position papers. We also hope to create a community of researchers working on different areas of attention management in ubiquitous computing.
Please see details on the workshop website http://ac.aup.fr/roda/attention/Ubicomp2007/ and forward position papers and/or any question about the workshop to the workshop organisers:
Claudia Roda - [log in to unmask] and
Mary Zajicek - [log in to unmask]
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