PERINT 2012 - International Workshop on Intelligibility and Control in Pervasive Computing

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Category PERINT 2012

Deadline: March 09, 2012 | Date: June 18, 2012

Venue/Country: Newcastle, U.K.

Updated: 2012-01-20 12:43:16 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Control in Pervasive Computing -- Call for Papers

http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/pervasive-intelligibility/

Newcastle, UK in conjunction with Pervasive 2012

*Important Dates*

Submission Deadline: March 09, 2012

Notification to Authors: April 02, 2012

Camera-Ready Papers: April 20, 2012

Workshop: June 18, 2012

*Workshop Theme*

Due to the proactive and complex dynamics of pervasive computing

applications, it is important that systems are intelligible (or

scrutable) to allow end-users to understand "what the systems know,

how they know it, and what they are doing". Furthermore, these systems

should put end-users at the center of control by empowering them to

better co-ordinate, control, and personalize pervasive systems.

Intelligibility and control are crucial to improve the usability of

these novel, and possibly unintuitive, systems and to help users

understand, appreciate, trust, and ultimately adopt them.

The aim of the Pervasive Intelligibility workshop series is to provide

a forum for specifying, designing, developing and evaluating

intelligible and user-controllable pervasive computing systems.

Drawing upon the state-of-the-art, our goal is to refine existing and

identify new directions for research in intelligibility and

user-centric controls for pervasive computing that will foster further

work in the community.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Novel applications and prototypes demonstrating the implementation

and implications of intelligibility and control.

* Programming techniques (e.g., design patterns, models), algorithms,

middleware, toolkits and tools to support intelligibility and/or

control, including work on how machine learning algorithms can be

made intelligible and controllable, techniques to explain and

configure ubicomp middleware, and tools for end-user programming.

* Interaction techniques and user interfaces to support

intelligibility and/or control, including solutions for challenging

interaction contexts (e.g., tangibles, wearables).

* Information visualization techniques to help users better interpret

explanations from pervasive computing applications and better

understand how they can control them.

* User studies of pervasive computing systems and experience reports

addressing end-user needs and discussing issues of intelligibility

and control.

* Ethnographic, cognitive psychological, or social science studies

about how users understand and seek to control ubicomp systems and

applications.

* Models, theory and conceptual frameworks about how users understand

and interact with pervasive systems.

* Evaluation criteria and methods to assess support for

intelligibility and control in pervasive computing systems.

*Submissions*

There will be two separate categories for submission:

* Research Contributions should introduce novel concepts and present new

insights and must not exceed 6 pages (ACM Format).

* Position Statements may be up to 2 pages (ACM Format). They should

outline a person's interest and experience in topic of the workshop.

Authors are encouraged to submit to both categories, if considered

appropriate. Supplementary material (e.g., videos) can be submitted

as well and will be made available on the workshop website before the

start of the workshop.

Accepted papers will be published online on the workshop website and

will be included in the electronic conference proceedings. In

addition, authors of selected submissions will be invited to submit

extended versions to a special issue of a journal or possibly an

edited book.

Contributions must be submitted through the EasyChair submission

system no later than March 2, 2012, and should be in PDF

format. More details can be found on the workshop website. If you have

any further questions, we encourage you to contact the organizers at

(PerIntWSgmail.com).

*Organizing Committee*

Jo Vermeulen (Hasselt University, Belgium)

Brian Y. Lim (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Fahim Kawsar (Bell Labs, Belgium)

*Program Committee*

Margaret Burnett (Oregon State University, USA)

Karin Coninx (Hasselt University, Belgium)

Joëlle Coutaz (University of Grenoble, France)

Anind Dey (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University, UK)

Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia)

Kris Luyten (Hasselt University, Belgium)

Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda University, Japan)

Aaron Quigley (University of St. Andrews, UK)

Hide Tokuda (Keio University, Japan)