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An International Workshop Colocated with Pervasive 2009
LOCA 2009 (May 7-8, Tokyo Japan) is the 4th International
Symposium on Location and Context Awareness, with proceedings published in the LNCS
series by Springer-Verlag. LOCA 2009 seeks new
and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect,
interpret and use location and other contextual information. Context includes physiological,
environmental and computational data whether sensed or inferred. In addition,
context includes users' activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility,
affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information,
services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion.
Developing awareness involves research in sensing, systems, machine learning,
human computer interaction, and design.
International Workshops In Cooperation with Pervasive 2009
Workshops provide a forum for discussing areas of special interest within pervasive computing with like-minded researchers and practitioners. Workshops afford participants the opportunity to examine an area with a selected focus in an open environment for the free exchange of perspectives. The day-long workshops will be held prior to the main conference on Monday, May 11, 2009. This year, we have eight workshops as follows:
More detail Information for the individual workshops is the following.
Especially with mobile devices, privacy and security are often in
conflict with another. 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 2nd
International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Spontaneous
Interaction and Mobile Device Use (IWSSI/SPMU'09) provides a forum to
discuss these challenges and to put forward an agenda for future
research. It is intended to foster cooperation between research groups
and to establish a highly connected research community. We solicit
both full papers and position papers discussing any of the relevant
issues. Selected workshop submissions will be collected as a special
issue in a renowned international journal.
The workshop webpage is online at http://iwssi2009.cs.univie.ac.at
The Pervasive Advertising workshop focusses on how Pervasive
Technology is shaping the future of advertising. Technologies
including digital signage, ambient displays, mobile phones, haptic
interfaces and e-newspapers create a pervasive media environment that
disrupts established advertising business models such as sponsorship,
publishing houses, out-of-home (e.g. billboard) advertising and TV
advertising. We believe that pervasive advertising will soon affect a
majority of the world's urban population, both positively and
negatively. Potential opportunities will centre on the ubiquitous
provision of calm and interesting information. Particular threats are
pervasive SPAM and pervasive surveillance, as advertisers try to
establish who looks at their ads. This workshop aims at bringing
together researchers to forecast opportunities and threats from this
development and shape the future of urban citizen. We encourage
participants who are excited by or afraid of pervasive advertising to
apply to attend this workshop. Find more information at http://www.pervasiveadvertising.org
Pervasive computing technologies have leveraged innovative potentials
in commerce by offering immersive experience of consumption in both
virtual and physical situations. The one-day workshop is an
anthropological and design investigation of pervasive shopping
practices from both the consumers and business owners' point of views
that involve the physical and the digital. Participants will
investigate a particular retail typology, the convenience chain store,
and explore the potentials of pervasive technology in this particular
context. The objective is for participants to rethink the convenience
shopping experience, taking into account the social, cultural and
business contexts, and to offer strategies using or developing
innovative technologies that enable business growth opportunities.
As a platform for the workshop, we have created a blog: http://pervasiveshopping.wordpress.com/
Mobile devices have been established as an important platform for
Pervasive Computing that has become part of our daily lives. So far
they have mostly been used for phone calls, messaging or organizer
functionalities. However, mobile multimedia features, integrated
sensors and improved connectivity expand their scope to an increasing
number of new application areas. The main goal of the PERMID 2009
workshop is to develop an understanding of how mobile devices can be
used as interaction devices, in particular to interact with pervasive
infrastructures or ubiquitous services. It will provide a forum to
share information, results, and ideas on current research in this
area. Furthermore it aims to develop new ideas on how mobile devices
can be exploited for new forms of interaction with their environment.
It will bring together researchers and practitioners who are concerned
with design, development, and implementation of new applications and
services using mobile devices as user interfaces.
You can find the webpage for PERMID 2009 at http://www.permid.org/2009/
The 3rd ACM International workshop on context-awareness for
self-managing systems (casemans 2009) focuses on investigating the
place of context-aware computing in self-managing systems. These are
systems (applications, devices, middleware, and networks, etc.) which
are aware of all the factors that affect their setup or operation and
adapt meaningfully when there is a perceived change in these factors,
thus freeing users from a setup, reconfiguration or operation task. To
learn more about the casemans 2009 workshop, please visit the
following link: http://casemans2009.kit-media-lab.net/index.html
In recent years we see an increasing deployment of sensors and
powerful mobile processing devices in cities. Amongst others, it has
allowed for new approaches in the study of the built environment
including key infrastructure systems. Recent research efforts
harnessed these technologies for analyzing the patterns of different
dynamic flows in the city such as environmental conditions, people
movements, and events. While research efforts in pervasive computing
have focused so far primarily on application areas such as health
care, ambient assisted living, socializing, and gaming, the newly
available information about urban dynamics provides a promising
context for pervasive computing applications in Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS). Research in ITS aims to enhance
transportation infrastructure systems and services as well as the
vehicle itself through information and communication systems. In
recent years, ITS research has focused on riders and pedestrians as
well. This workshop will explore uses of pervasive computing in ITS
and other topics related to people's mobility. It will focus
primarily on new methods for obtaining relevant real-time data, the
provision of mobility information, as well as data fusion.
Find more information at http://inmotion09.dei.uc.pt
The objective of the workshop is to bring together artists,
researchers and media designers in order to explore innovative use of
pervasive and ubiquitous technologies for cultural applications.
Artists are now exploring new horizons beyond the "white box" or the
"black box" inside museum exhibitions, e.g. digital artworks installed
in public space which require minimal and intuitive interaction that
can take advantage of today's pervasive technologies. We believe that
such a domain can be explored only through an inter-disciplinary
dialogue between science, technology, art and the humanities.
Find more information at http://webia.lip6.fr/~codognet/pervasive2009/
Pervasive computing will enhance and enrich the content creation
activities of people by capturing and expressing their daily
activities by means of sensors or various forms of displays embedded
in the environment, through user interfaces or by Web applications.
We expect attendees with backgrounds of not only pervasive computing
but also information design, social science, workshop facilitators and
creators. In order for participants to interact actively by
experiencing content creation activities supported by pervasive
computing, whole workshop is designed as a content creation "workshop"
which begins with "ice breaks" and includes creative discussion lead
by facilitators. Demonstrations as well as support systems deployed
for the workshop are highly welcome.
Find more information at http://www.mediaexprimo.jp/PerCAS/
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