[Mycolleagues] 2nd International Workshop on Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments

                          Call for Papers
 
2nd International Workshop on Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments
                           (SAUCE) 2009

               http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/sauce2009/
 

                        In conjunction with
                            WiMob 2009
                         Marrakech, Morocco
                      October 12th-14th, 2009

             http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2009/

Scope
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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? (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? and (iv) how can we build ubiquitous
environments and applications that improve people's social interactions?

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

Important Dates
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Paper submission due:          June 7, 2009
Paper acceptance notification: July 26, 2009
Final manuscript due:          August 10, 2009
Registration:                  August 20, 2009
Workshop:                      October 12, 2009

Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in
any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Paper length
should not exceed five-page technical paper manuscript. Please see author information
page for submission guidelines at WiMob 2009 website
(http://conferences.computer.org/wimob2009/WorkshopsSymposia.html). Papers should be
submitted in a PDF format through EDAS.
Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and
telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. All accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register
at the full registration rate.

Contact
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Peter Reiher (reiher(at)cs.ucla.edu)