IPCity Newsletter #12, January 2008 IPCity Newsletter news can also be read from the IPCity dissemination website at http://www.ipcity.eu/ Select News from the left panel to view the most current news. IPCity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571) is a EU funded Sixth Framework programme Integrated project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments. http://www.ipcity.eu/ -------------------------------------------- You can subscribe to IPCity news RSS feed from http://www.ipcity.eu/?feed=rss2. -------------------------------------------- CONTENTS * News - Pervasive User-Generated Content - 5th International IEEE Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (www.mucs2008.org) - Call for Pervasive 2008 Videos - Call for Pervasive 2008 Demonstrations - RAVE-08 Ñ Feb 27th 2008, Barcelona - Call for Submissions: Pervasive 2008 Doctoral Colloquium - 5th International Mobile Music Workshop 2008 - Futuresonic 2008 -------------------------------------------- News -------------------------------------------- Pervasive User-Generated Content May 1, 2008 is the submission due date for papers on aspects of ÒPervasive User-Generated ContentÓ, a special issue of IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine. We are looking for papers that discuss the collection, processing, presentation, and evaluation of data collected by regular users with pervasive technology. Example topics include: Networked data-gathering from large populations Data mining and machine learning from distributed sources Tracking multitudes of everyday objects Mashups and overlays of user data with other artifacts such as maps Contributions from mobile users Aggregating and filtering pervasive ratings and reviews Users as computing platforms and intelligent data sources Games and other schemes for gathering data from large populations Persuading individuals to contribute Usability aspects for efficient data contribution Visualizing user contributions Applications and displays of pervasively generated content Techniques for determining authenticity of contributed data Evaluations of pervasively generated content All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and the issueÕs editors will decide which ones are published. Detailed call for papers: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/pervasive/menuitem.e7bfeea1f36bd84da84840898bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=pervasive_level1&path=pervasive/content&file=cfp4.xml&xsl=article.xsl& PDF version: http://research.microsoft.com/users/jckrumm/UserGeneratedCfP.pdf IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/pervasive/ Guest Editors John Krumm, Microsoft Research Chandra Narayanaswami, IBM Research Nigel Davies, Lancaster University -------------------------------------------- 5th International IEEE Workshop on Management of Ubiquitous Communications and Services (www.mucs2008.org) April 11 2008, Salvador, Brazil (In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2008) Smart space applications, present significant management challenges for successful delivery of highly adaptive services across heterogeneous networks, mobile networks, ad-hoc networks, middleware, applications and devices. Such challenges include: managing user centric services and context services, extreme distribution and scalability, extensive system & network & semantic heterogeneity, ad hoc formation and disassociation of systems and services, intelligent support for user centric applications. Since 2003, the MUCS workshop (both independently and aligned with major conferences) has provided a very successful forum for researchers and practitioners to explore the theoretic, technological and organizational challenges, and to present advances in management techniques and technologies, for pervasive computing and smart space applications. The workshop provides a single-track scientific programme containing a blend of keynote presentations from leaders in research in this area, peer-reviewed papers and a small selection of invited presentations. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission: January 25th 2008 Notification of acceptance: February 15th 2008 Camera ready: Feb 22nd 2008 Workshop: April 11th 2008 TOPICS - Context Aware Management and Configuration - Security, Privacy, and Trust Management in Pervasive Computing/Smart Spaces - Adaptive technologies and techniques for Services and Management - Knowledge Representation Techniques and Semantics for Management - Management and Control of Mobile Ad-hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks - Distributed Management & Collaborative Governance - Context Identification, Retrieval, Prediction and Management - Provisioning and Maintenance of Quality of Service in ubiquitous computing environments - User Interaction with Management of UbiComp and Pervasive Systems - Managing Collaborative pervasive computing and smart space applications Management of Smart Spaces and Applications - Policy Based Management - Autonomic Management of Services and Communications - Communication & Systems Management - Wireless and Fixed Network Integrated Management - Adaptive Service and Network Management - Content Oriented Network & Service Management - Service and Network Management for Optimised Personalisation - Knowledge Representation Techniques and Ontologies for Management Services - Bio-inspired management approach PAPER SUBMISSION Paper submissions must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged to be submitted to IEEE MUCS 2008. Authors are requested to submit either long papers (up to 10 pages) or short papers (work-in-progress reports, up to 4 pages in length), in 10 point following IEEE conference style. PROCEEDINGS The proceedings of IEEE MUCS 2008 will be published and is intended to be made available via IEEE Explorer (confirmation pending). LOCATION This yearÕs IEEE MUCS is collocated with the 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2008 in Brazil. -------------------------------------------- Call for Pervasive 2008 Videos Videos are an effective tool to showcase research results, to inspire other researchers, and to educate the general public about the latest developments in Pervasive Computing. With the category of Research Videos, Pervasive 2008 seeks research contributions, future visions, project descriptions, and concepts of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The conference particularly values practical experience with design, deployment and use of pervasive systems and applications, and investigation of exciting and inspiring ideas and technologies. To be accepted, a video must be of an appropriate length for the content. It must contain no material subject to copyright (i.e., that the authors cannot grant Pervasive 2008 the right to redistribute freely), and must be easily comprehensible to English speakers. Finally, an accepted video must be standalone, i.e., the video itself (with audio soundtrack) must describe the work sufficiently, without requiring the viewer to read the abstract. Videos will be judged primarily on their communication of interesting research content (assuming appropriate technical quality). Each research video must be accompanied by a short paper describing the key research contribution. The paper should be written in a way that it can be understood by readers who have not or will not see the video. Accepted videos will be shown in a special video session at Pervasive 2008. We also plan to have video proceedings on CD-ROM. The accompanying short paper will be published in the adjunct proceedings of Pervasive 2008 which will be available in printed form as well as electronically on the conference web-site. Submission and Review Process Authors MUST submit a URL to the video and a PDF of the accompanying short paper. Videos need to be submited in mpeg (MPEG1/2) or AVI (MPEG-4) as PAL or NTSC (The final camera-ready version must be submitted as PAL). The accompaying paper must be no longer than 4 pages in OCG Format. Please send submissions to pervasive.2008.videos@gmail.com. Only submit a link to the video file, not the video. Important Dates March 1, 2008: Videos: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Videos: Acceptance notification If authors have any queries regarding potential submissions, including copyright, please contact the co-chairs. Video Co-Chairs Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney, Australia Email: andrew(at)arch.usyd.edu.au Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK Email: kortuem(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk -------------------------------------------- Call for Pervasive 2008 Demonstrations Research Demonstrators offer a unique opportunity to showcase research prototypes, and to discuss them with an international audience of experts in pervasive computing. To promote this, Pervasive 2008 is seeking interesting and engaging demonstrations of pervasive computing technologies. Proposers are invited to submit Research Demonstrations under the general topics of the conference. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: New technologies and devices for pervasive computing New applications of pervasive computing technologies New interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments New models, tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing applications Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing We encourage combining a research demonstration with a short paper that describes the contribution and as an anchor point for future reference. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, up to 4 pages in length and conform to the OCG Format (http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/files/richtlinien_engl_07_04.rtf). All demonstration submissions should be sent to the demonstration chairs via e-mail (c.f. below) The authors should also provide a brief sketch of the planned demonstration on an additional page. Specific requirements concerning space, power, network, and security should be stated. It is planned that wireless internet access will be provided. Accepted contributions will be published in the adjunct proceedings of 2008 with the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) series and online. The demonstrations will be introduced during a plenary session of the conference, and there will also be a reception dedicated to the presentation of posters and demonstrators. Important Dates March 1, 2008: Demonstations: Submission deadline March 15, 2008: Demonstrations: Acceptance notification Demonstration chairs Sebastien Ardon - NICTA, Australia. Email: sebastien.ardon(at)nicta.com.au Enrico Rukzio - Lancaster University, UK. Email: Enrico Rukzio rukzio(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk -------------------------------------------- RAVE-08 Ñ Feb 27th 2008, Barcelona [via http://www.peachbit.org/] First of an Annual Workshop Series: This is the first of a workshop series focusing on the whys and hows of realistic action in virtual environments. Why do people smile at an avatar that is smiling at them, when they know full well that no one is there, and no one can see their smile? Why do they become anxious when standing in front of a deep virtual hole in the ground, when they know for sure that there is no hole there? Since the advent of virtual reality in the 1980s it has been well known that not only do people have a feeling of being transported to the place depicted by a virtual environment, but they also tend to act as if they were really there. We are interested in how people act, how they respond, and why. Our focus is clear: people tend to respond realistically to virtually generated sensory data. We want to measure it objectively and quantitatively to understand how and why it happens scientifically, and what we can do also as engineers to make it even better. We do not a priori put limits on what we regard as a Òvirtual realityÓ system - we include in this term augmented reality, single screen-displays, head mounted displays, Cave systems, and so on. This research has profound ramifications across many dimensions. Science Ð what is it about the way the brain processes sensory signals that makes it possible for relatively poor simulations of reality to spark such a high degree of realistic activity? How can we use this understanding to take designed better environments? Even the very notion of the human body and our relationship to our own bodies can be transformed. This has very deep implications for the scientific study of body processing and consciousness. Computer Science and Engineering - How can we build systems that maximise the chance that people will rave in them? There are fundamental challenges for the construction of new systems, and their emergence out of the laboratory into businesses and homes. Applications - to the extent that people show such realistic responses, whole new fields of endeavour open up that can be approached in novel ways: psychotherapy, neurorehabilitation, quality of life technologies, ergonomics, mission training, industrial prototyping and education to name but a few. When we add the capability for such virtual environments to be shared by many people, we also add a vast range of additional applications, such as remote negotiations and meetings, virtual travel, virtual conferences, and so on. Philosophy - what are the implications for our notion of reality and self? Is what we have thought of as reality simply one amongst many parallel realities that we now inhabit? Entertainment - there are profound new possibilities for entertainment - for example, a person could lead multiple parallel lives - working in the office all day answering emails in Òthis lifeÓ, a private detective in the other Òparallel lifeÓ within a shared virtual reality. We invite contributions to the first RAVE workshop. Contributions must be at a high scientific level, and typically would describe, attempt to understand, or engineer RAVE phenomena. RAVE-08 is only the kick-off one day conference of what we plan as the first of an annual series, so the number of contributions that can be accepted is small. Applications should be sent as one page Abstracts to rave08(at)peachbit.org by Jan 14th 2008 and cover the following points (see abstract template attached below): One or two sentences providing a basic introduction to the issue at stake in the research. A clear statement of the problem specifically covered by the study, and the current state of the art. A section beginning with ÒHere we showÓ giving the main result, explaining what new knowledge has been generated. A section explaining what the main result reveals in direct comparison to what was thought to be the case previously, or how the main result adds to previous knowledge. A section putting the results into a more general context, and the implications for further research. Important Dates: 1-2 page Abstract and Registration form due: 2008-01-18 (see template) Abstract Responses by: 2008-01-28 Workshop: 2008-02-27 More at http://rave08.peachbit.org/ -------------------------------------------- Call for Submissions: Pervasive 2008 Doctoral Colloquium Submission Deadline: 12th February 2008, 18:00 EST Notification of acceptance: 15th March 2008 Camera-ready paper deadline: 29th March 2008 Doctoral Colloquium: 19th May 2008 We invite PhD students and candidates to present their work-in-progress or preliminary results and gain feedback from an international and renowned audience of researchers and developers in the pervasive computing field. Doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have an idea paper and structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 6 months are invited to submit a thesis position paper. This 6-month stipulation is set in place because so that students have time to incorporate the DC advice and suggestions into their thesis research. Submissions will be reviewed by international experts and based on these reviews, candidates for the doctoral colloquium will be selected. Accepted DC submissions will be published in the adjunct proceedings of Pervasive 2007, also available at the website. Submissions MUST follow the template http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~judy/PervasiveDC/pdc-template.doc Submissions must follow OCG format: http://www.ocg.at/publikationen/books/paper.html -------------------------------------------- 5th International Mobile Music Workshop 2008 13-15 May 2008, Vienna, Austria Call for Submissions: Deadline 10 February 2008 Visit the 2007 website here: http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org/07/index.html The Mobile Music Workshop 2008 is the 5th in a series of annual international gatherings that explore the creative, critical and commercial potential of mobile music. They are inspired by the ever-changing social, geographic, ecological, emotional context of using mobile technology for creative ends. We are looking for new ideas and ground-breaking projects on sound in mobile contexts. What new forms of interaction with music and audio lie ahead as locative media, ubiquitous networks, and music access merge into new forms of experiences that shape the everyday? Can they change the way we think about our mobile devices and about walking through the city? The emerging field of Mobile Music sits at the intersection of ubiquitous computing, portable audio technology and New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). It goes beyond todayÕs personal music players to include creative practices of mobile music making, sharing and mixing. The mobile setting challenges existing notions of interfaces and interaction, stretching music to new creative limits. The workshop has been at the forefront of this innovative area since 2004. Past editions of the event have taken place in Amsterdam, Brighton, Vancouver and Gšteborg in collaboration with the Viktoria Institute, STEIM, Waag Society, Futuresonic, NIME and others. The 2008 edition of the workshop will be held in Vienna, one of the hotspots in the European for laptop, glitch, and electronic music. Hosted by the University of Applied Arts, it will feature three evenings of performances and installations, an exhibition in the heart of the city, invited speakers, paper presentations, posters and demo sessions as well as hands-on tutorials. Besides the workshop proceedings, we will publish a catalogue that will gather key contributions from the last 5 years. We invite artists, designers, academic researchers, hackers, industry professionals and practitioners from all areas, including music, technology development, new media, sound-art, music distribution, cultural/media studies and locative media and more to present and discuss projects, prototypes, applications, devices, performances, installations, theoretical and historical considerations. IMPORTANT DEADLINES Submission deadline: 10 February 2008 Notification of acceptance: 14 March 2008 Submission deadline for final papers: 14 April 2008 Registration deadline: 14 April 2008 PARTICIPATE Please upload your submission in any of the three following categories at http://ocs.waag.org/. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by a committee of international specialists in the field. ORGANISERS & INFORMATION The 2008 edition is hosted and co-organised by the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria (Nicolaj Kirisits). The Steering Committee is formed by Lalya Gaye (DŒnk! Collective and IT-University of Gšteborg, Sweden), Atau Tanaka (Culture Lab Newcastle, UK), Frauke Behrendt (University of Sussex, UK), Kristina Andersen (STEIM, The Netherlands). Contact: info [at] mobilemusicworkshop.org More information: http://www.mobilemusicworkshop.org -------------------------------------------- Futuresonic 2008 Futuresonic brings 500 opinion formers, futurologists, artists, technologists and scientists from the digital culture, music and art communities to Manchester for four days of seminars, workshops and events. At the heart of the Futuresonic festival is the internationally-acclaimed Futuresonic conference, and its focal point the Social Technologies Summit, which looks at how technologies can create an extension of social space or support group interaction, and asks how we can make technology more social. Submissions are now invited to the Futuresonic conference and the Social Technologies Summit. Proposals for talks, presentations and workshops plus also session themes are invited. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction are encouraged. Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking The Futuresonic conference is a place where important international discussions take place. The conference will bring together leading figures to unpick the hype around the latest technological zeitgeist, broaden the debate, and propose and explore a critical understanding of social technologies. The 2008 conference will explore the theme of The Social - Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking. Submissions are invited that explore the new social spaces and the social implications of technologies for the many different kinds of people who make, use and are affected by them. Computers have become social interfaces for sharing digital media and collaborating to build online communities and folksonomies. Social technologies create an extension of social space, and new ways for people to find the stuff that interests them, link up with others, and share. They include tools and applications that enable people to connect, share and interact, such as blogs, instant messenger, social software such as Flickr, FaceBook and Jaiku, and even the internet itself. ÔSocial technologiesÕ can also refer to technologies created and maintained by social networks, such as communities of developers and users working collaboratively with open source tools. What distinguishes social technologies is that they are bottom up and many-to-many instead of one-to-one or one-to-many. They can be seen as a part of a major cultural and social shift. And yet at the same time we also see how electronic communication can isolate us, as more and more people drown in a deluge of email that generates stress, even reducing IQ - puncturing the rose-tinted view that life is Ômore social.Õ Additionally, Ôonline communitiesÕ are based upon an artificial equivalence between ÔusersÕ which obscures power relationships and issues of ownership. http://www.futuresonic.com/ -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- IPCity (FP-2004-IST-4-27571) is a EU funded Sixth Framework programme Integrated project on Interaction and Presence in Urban Environments. http://www.ipcity.eu/ -------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------