SAUCE 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Social Aspects of Ubiquitous Computing Environments (SAUCE) 2009

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Category SAUCE 2009

Deadline: June 07, 2009 | Date: October 12, 2009

Venue/Country: Marrakech, Morocco

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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

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

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

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

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

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