[Mycolleagues] Call for Papers: Workshop on Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments (SAUCE 2008) - Extended deadline: June 21

Important dates:
Paper submission due: June 21, 2008 (Deadline extended from June 14)
Paper acceptance notification: July 16, 2008
Final manuscript due: August 14, 2008
Workshop: October 12, 2008

Associated with IEEE Wimob 2008

Web site: http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/sauce2008

Location: Avignon, France

Over the last two decades, the focus of much computer research has
shifted from desktop systems intended to make workers more productive to
intelligent environments and mobile devices that explicitly and
implicitly interact with people in the many different contexts they
inhabit and in the many different roles they enact. While the model of
one person to one desktop computer is still valid, there are many new
interaction models that must be investigated. Many of the most
interesting and unanswered questions raised by the growth of ubiquitous
computing relate to social issues. Questions researchers face include
(i) how do ubiquitous computing systems or devices influence and assist
in people's social performances? (ii) how do intelligent systems that
take autonomous action influence people's sense of control and sense of
self in social situations? and (iii) how does the interjection of
computing into social spaces such as homes, cafes, parks, malls, and
entertainment venues affect the meaning of these space and create new
opportunities for computing to bring value to people's lives?

This workshop brings together researchers investigating the social
issues, implications, and opportunities of UbiComp from many different
perspectives. We expect researchers with backgrounds in contextual
awareness, security and privacy, intelligent environments, mobile
computing, user research, major application areas, and interaction
design. The outcomes will be an improved understanding from across the
different disciplines and sub-disciplines working in this domain to the
main challenges (both technical and social) to developing successful
UbiComp systems that both operate in complex social environments and
improve the quality of people's lives.

Topics:

The areas of contributions to the workshop include a broad range of
challenges related to the design of socially appropriate ubiquitous
computing systems. We especially encourage submissions related to the
following topics:

o Collaborative control of intelligent environments
o Multi-player interactive gaming and story telling with locative elements
o Social media applications
o Interconnection of Web 2.0 data and activities to physical
environments and objects
o Privacy & security issues for social UbiComp applications
o Virtualization and visualization of people, places, and things
o Location-based applications
o Middleware to support socially-oriented ubiquitous computing
o Techniques for inferring or extracting social context in UbiComp
environments
o Application studies, both with live users and in simulation
o Design and prototyping methods for identifying hidden social barriers
to UbiComp applications
o UbiComp systems that support initiation and strengthening of social
connections
o Middleware to support autonomic computing in a human environment

The papers will be peer-reviewed and chosen according to their relevance
to the scope of the workshop, the quality and originality of the
submission, and their ability to stimulate discussions. The organizers
will try to consider as many submissions as possible to help assemble a
large community of researchers interested in the social aspects of
ubiquitous computing environments. We hope that attendees will be
prepared not just to present their papers, but to participate in other
workshop activities meant to help develop the field of research and to
expose researchers to the thoughts and approaches of others,
particularly researchers who come from different intellectual
backgrounds who have different perspectives on the area. All accepted
papers will require an author to attend the workshop and register at the
full conference rate for WiMob 2008. All papers selected for this
workshop will be included in the main WiMob conference proceedings that
will be published by the IEEE.

Program chairs:

Peter Reiher, UCLA
Kevin Eustice, UCLA
John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University

Program committee:

Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College
Boris de Ruyter, Philips
Ilpo Kosninen, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Philippe Lalanda, Grenoble Universites
Alex Pentland, MIT
Giuseppe Raffa, Intel
Saha Subir, Motorola
Mike Van Lent, Soar Technologies
Mark Yarvis, Intel

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Peter Reiher
reiher@cs.ucla.edu
<http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/reiher>

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