SMACK 2011 - SMACK 2011 : SMArtphones in the Curriculum worKshop (SMACK 2011)

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Category SMACK 2011

Deadline: February 18, 2011 | Date: May 22, 2011

Venue/Country: Hawaii, U.S.A

Updated: 2011-01-28 21:13:54 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Held at the 24th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training

Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii USA

Sunday, May 22, 2011 (co-located with ICSE 2011)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

Smartphone platforms, such as the iPhone and Google Android, are rapidly

developing into rich platforms for building applications for cyber-physical

systems, educational enrichment, enabling citizen scientists, disaster response,

and environmental monitoring. For example, recent research has yielded

cyber-physical applications and cloud services to track patient lifestyle choices

for health purposes, monitor CO2 emissions around smartphone users, predict and

respond to traffic accidents, measure traffic and derive road quality, and

monitor cardiac patients. Many of these applications that combine sophisticated

sensor capabilities of smartphones and cloud computing have become mainstream,

such as Google Goggles, which provides an augmented reality overlay on a

smartphone camera for situational awareness.

The first International SMArtphones in the Curriculum workshop (SMACK 2011) will

be held in conjunction with the 24th IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering

Education and Training. This workshop aims to nurture new thinking on how to use

this new platform in software engineering and computer science courses that span

the traditional curriculum, as well as new special topics project courses that

introduce software engineering in a manner that highlights important societal

problems. The workshop will bring together a diverse set of perspectives on these

topics and their applications.

We invite papers on a variety of topics, including:

- Summaries of experience and documented best-practices for using smarthpones to

teach a traditional software engineering, networking, software patterns, or

network application design course, or a senior Capstone design projects course

- Specific projects that highlight multiple real-world issues that motivate the

need for applying software engineering principles

- Tools/methodologies that support pedagogical needs for a new course based on

smartphones

- Novel ways of introducing smartphone topics across multiple courses in a

curricula

- Frameworks and tools for reducing the learning curve of developing smartphone

applications

- Multi-disciplinary approaches to using smartphones in the classroom

- Incorporating non-CS majors, such as graphic designers, into smartphone projects

- Innovative use of smartphones to introduce computer science in a unique context

(e.g., K-12 outreach)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: Feb. 18, 2011

Author Notification: March 16, 2011

Workshop: May 22, 2011

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submissions may include 2-page Position Papers or 4-5 page Short Papers.

Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE formatting requirements. All

papers must be submitted in PDF using EasyChair.

Please visit the workshop website for formatting links and a link to the

EasyChair submission site.

WEBSITE

Additional details about the workshop as it evolves can be found at:

http://cs.ua.edu/SMACK

ORGANIZERS

Co-Chairs:

Jeff Gray, University of Alabama

Jules White, Virginia Tech

Adam Porter, University of Maryland

Please address all questions about the workshop to the organizers by writing to

smackvt.edu

Publicity co-Chairs:

Prateek Bahri, University of Alabama

Hamilton Turner, Virginia Tech

PROGRAM COMMITEE

Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University

Anthony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Derek Riley, Middle Tennessee State University

Doug Schmidt, Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

Frank McCown, Harding University

James Hill, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Jing Zhang, Motorola Research

Joe Tront, Virginia Tech

Mark Goadrich, Centenary College of Louisiana

Sandeep Neema, Vanderbilt University

Sean Eade, Siemens Corporate Research

Ted Bapty, Vanderbilt University

Tom Martin, Virginia Tech