6th International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing (IWSAWC) 2006

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Description

Through recent technological development researchers are now able to embed sensing, computation, communication and actuation in personal devices and everyday artefacts giving them the possibility to create large scale systems of interacting smart appliances, physical objects and wearable computers. This penetration of computation in all aspects of everyday life and work requires thorough exploration of new kinds of embedded and smart devices and software infrastructures and architectures that support such large-scale scenarios beyond the lab environment.

The diversity of systems, devices, services and applications and their distributed nature raises important questions about collaboration between system components. Appropriate solutions often have to take potential resource limitations of connected devices and appliances into account. Contextual awareness, digital representations of physical system components as well as access methods and processing of distributed information are of specific importance - especially as smart devices and objects along with their services are seamlessly integrated in the real world to support users in their daily living activities.

Scope

This workshop serves as a forum for the exchange of new findings in collaborative technologies and smart appliances deployed in real world environments. We intend to bring together practitioners from academia as well as industry to present their most recent research in these rapidly moving fields. Technical papers on smart appliances and collaborative technologies are solicited for oral presentation at IWSAWC 2006. Papers reporting new developments in computing with smart devices such as PDAs, wearable computers, and cellular phones as well as new insights in instrumentation of everyday artefacts and their infrastructures will be invited for presentation. Workshop topics include but are not limited to:

• Enabling Technologies
• Collaboration Concepts
• Infrastructure Solutions
• Home and Office Appliances
• Novel Smart Objects
• Portable Devices and Smart Sensors
• Wireless-phone Computing
• Home Networks and Wearable Networks
• Networking Protocols
• Security and Privacy Aspects
• Wearable Computers and PDAs
• Software and Service Architectures
• Location and Context-Aware Computing

Format

Authors of accepted papers will be invited for oral presentation at the workshop. There will also be a poster session provinding an opportunity for researchers to present their planned, on-going or recently-finished work and highlighting recent results in the field of Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. Presenters are encouraged to show additional demonstrations facilitating the poster.

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

Technical papers should be submitted via the workshop webpage, not exceed a maximum length of 6 two-column pages and include an abstract of 100-150 words. We explicitly welcome shorter papers reporting about current work in progress up to a maximum length of 3 two-column pages. Poster submissions should include an extended abstract of no longer than 2 pages in the workshop publications format, including all figures and references. Poster submissions may also include a further single page which describes the poster itself for review purposes, this may be a draft of the poster, or text describing the proposed layout. The use of this page is encouraged to convey to reviewers visual aspects of the envisioned poster which may not come across in the abstract, for example including a key graphic to be used in the poster. This supplemental page will not be published.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the organizing and program committee. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers should follow the IEEE format. Guidelines and templates are avaialble at available from IEEE. Extended poster abstracts will be published as adjunct proceedings and wil be circulated to workshop participants. They will also be available under the program section of this webpage. A link for paper submissions will be made available online.

Organizing Committee

Martin Strohbach , Lancaster University , UK (Chair)
Masateru Minami, Shibaura Institute of Technology , Japan (Chair)
Yoshihiro Kawahara, University of Tokyo , Japan
Masayuki Iwai, KEIO University , Japan
Nicky Kern, Darmstadt University of Technology , Germany
Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart , Germany

Programme Committee

Jalal Al-Muhtadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , USA
Michael Beigl, University of Karlsruhe , Germany
Christian Decker, University of Karlsruhe , Germany
Yasuyuki Kono, NAIST, Japan
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Goro Kunito, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
Kristof Van Laerhoven, Lancaster University, UK
Kent Lyons, Georgia Tech, USA
Bernt Schiele, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
Kazunori Takashio, Keio University, Japan
Yasuo Tan, JAIST, Japan
Tsutomu Terada, Osaka University, Japan
Simon Tsang, Telcordia Research, USA
Khai Truong, University of Toronto, Canada

Contact

General enquiries should be directed to the worskhop chairs. Please use "minami AT sic.shibaura-it DOT ac DOT jp" or "strohbach AT comp DOT lancs DOT ac DOT uk".

Enquiries related to poster and demo submissions should be directed to Nicky Kern. His eMail address is "kern AT mis DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de".