Smart Space

Smart Spaces are working or living environments with embedded computers, information appliances, and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from computers. Smart Space highlights natural interaction by providing variable sensor systems, perceptual or tangible user interfaces. Smart Space will have the abilities to:
1) identify and perceive users, their actions, and even goals;
2) facilitate interaction with information rich sources;
3) anticipate user needs during task performance;
4) provide improved records and summaries for later use;
5) support distributed and local collaboration.
Besides of the use of the living or working space (such as a meeting room, a laboratory, a living room, etc.), Smart space is a right experimental environment for researches on pervasive computing.

Topics

The special track welcomes contributions on: reporting novel techniques and technologies to enable Smart Space, theoretical papers addressing the foundations of Smart Space, user experience and application study on Smart Space.

Interested special track topics include, but are not limited to:

• Natural interaction means to enhance user experience, like perceptual or tangible user interfaces
• Smart Space modeling
• Smart devices
• Sensors in Smart Space
• Service discovery and composition
• Context awareness
• Location and user awareness
• Automatic records and summaries
• Software platform to integrate hardware and software modules
• Application design and implementation
• User experience study

The special track welcomes both full papers and short position papers. When submitting position papers, please state clearly why the paper is relevant to the special track.

Track Programme Co-Chairs

Prof. Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Prof. Laurence Tianruo Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Prof. Achilles Kameas, Hellenic Open University, Greece
Prof. Ohbyung Kwon, Kyunghee University, Korea

Contacts

Prof. Yuanchun Shi
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, China
Phone: (8610) 62772472, Fax: (8610)62795871, Email: shiyc@tsinghua.edu.cn
Prof. Laurence Tianruo Yang
Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Phone: 1-902-867 5546, Fax: 1-902-867 3302,email: ltyang@gmail.com

Track Paper Submission

ICPCA2008 Special Track on Smart Space (S-Space@ICPCA)

Important Dates

April 15, 2008
April 30, 2008
May 18, 2008 Full paper submission due
June 08, 2008 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2008 Final papers due