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AmI-07: the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
will be held November 7-10, 2007 in Darmstadt, Germany.

Conference Theme

Ambient Intelligence represents a vision of the future where we shall be surrounded by electronic environments, sensitive and responsive to people. Ambient Intelligence technologies are expected to combine concepts of ubiquitous computing and intelligent systems putting humans in the centre of technological developments.

The conference aims to bring together top researchers both from academia and industry within the various disciplines that constitute the field of ambient intelligence to stimulate research and create links between industry and academia allowing the exploration of new frontiers in the area of ambient intelligence.

Keynotes:

AmI-07 is the second joint conference that brings together two series of events. The first series of events is called conference on smart objects (sOc) and has been organized by France Telecom and by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) both in Grenoble, France in 2001 and 2003. The second series of events is called European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (EUSAI) and has been organized by Philips and University of Eindhoven both in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 2003 and 2004. In 2005 the first joined conference of sOc and EUSAI has been organized in Grenoble, France and was called sOc-EUSAI'05. Now in 2007 we are expanding the scope of the series by including three different types of contributions: research contributions, experience contributions and industry and socio-economic contributions.

Format

The format of the conference will be dual track and comprises three different types of contributions:

Research Contributions: an international PC-committee will peer-review and select high-quality and original research in all areas of Ambient Intelligence submitted as research papers
Case Studies and Lessons Learned: an international PC-committee will select the contributions most valuable to the Ambient Intelligence community
Industry and Socio-Economic Contributions: an international PC-committee will select the most innovative contributions on commercial and socio-economic aspects of ambient intelligence.
All accepted contributions will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The proceedings will also be made available through the digital library.

CHI '08 Workshop, Urban Mixed Realities:Technologies, Theories and Frontiers

Deadline: 3 October 2007
Source: www.ipcity.eu, 17 August 2007
Submitted by Rod McCall

Urban Mixed Realities: Technologies, Theories and Frontiers

A workshop at CHI 2008: April 6th 2008, Florence, Italy

Submission deadline: 3rd October 2007

Urban mixed realities represent a growing and exciting area of research which requires new ways of thinking about issues such as usability, place and presence. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from fields as diverse as presence and pervasive games with the objective of discussing the emerging issues within this growing field. We invite all those with an interest to submit a position paper, some suggested topic areas are listed below:

•The role of the urban environment in shaping content and technologies
•Interaction issues within urban environments
•Frameworks and theories: place, presence, co-operative systems and cognition
•Technologies: from mobile phones to head-mounted displays
•Design and evaluation methodologies
•The role of art and performance in urban mixed realities
•Personal and societal issues related to the use and deployment of urban mixed reality systems
•Applications of urban mixed reality technologies: games, cultural heritage, emergency response training, pervasive games, social networking etc.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
You are invited to submit a position paper (maximum four pages) using the CHI extended abstracts format. These should be submitted to Rod McCall (rod.mccall@fit.fraunhofer.de). Please place “Workshop Submission” in the email subject field. The deadline for submissions is October 3rd 2007, with notifications being issued by the 28th November 2007. At least one author from each paper will be required to attend the one day workshop which is being held during CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy. The cost of the workshop is $150.

AFTER THE WORKSHOP
Our intention is to publish a special issue of a journal or an edited book based on the content of the workshop. We will also explore other methods of disseminating the results.

For more information please visit: www.ipcity.eu
CHI 2008: www.chi2008.org

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Rod McCall, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland
Wolfgang Broll, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Finland
Ina Wagner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado, USA
Luciano Gamberini, University of Padova, Italy