Date: October 23, 2006 2:02:38 PM PDT
Subject: [Urban Atmospheres] IEEE Pervasive Call for Papers: Special issue on Urban Computing
Call for Papers
Urban Computing
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 January 2007
WIP Deadline: See below
Publication date: June 2007
IEEE Pervasive Computing invites articles about urban computing: the
integration of computing, sensing, and actuation technologies into our
everyday urban settings and lifestyles. Successful integration requires
taking several facets of the urban environment into account at once. Urban
settings frame social behaviors; they encompass architectural forms and
features that may or may not be harmonious with given technologies; and they
are increasingly but variably permeated by wireless networks and fixed and
mobile devices. A key challenge is the great diversity and density of
people, devices, and built artifacts found in urban places. Urban computing
ranges from city-wide transportation-sensing infrastructure, to services
embedded in a cafe, to the bluetooth "aura" of an individual's mobile phone
as he or she walks down a street.
We welcome papers on all aspects of pervasive technologies embedded
specifically in the city, especially those that combine social,
architectural, and technological perspectives. We encourage reports of user
studies and other data-gathering exercises; lessons learned from technology
designs and deployments; conceptual frameworks for urban computing; and
fully worked-out visions for the cities of the future.
Example topics include
* Clicks and mortar: the built environment as a tangible interface to
services and applications.
* Archi-tech-ture: designing technology for architecture and
architecture for technology.
* Wireless society: accounts of media or bandwidth sharing and other
social phenomena that emerge from increasing densities of bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
and cellular networks in urban areas.
* Theories of the urban landscape such as space syntax applied to
technological embeddings.
* Street riders: applications for transportation systems and vehicular
technologies, especially car-car and car-street interactions.
* Citizen sensors: sensors that people wear or carry to measure such
factors as pollution levels or the presence of individuals nearby, and
especially applications that combine results from across the city.
* Urban interaction: displays, smart posters and other public
interaction facilities.
* Digital identity: the presentation of self in digital urban life.
* Sous les pavés, la plage ("under the paving stones, the beach," from
Paris, 1968): investigations exploring alternative digital tags, markings,
traces, and graffiti.
* Urban experiences: technologies for events such as festivals,
mediascapes, other new ways of experiencing the city.
* Come out and play: street games, especially perpetual games, that
remix the city landscape as gameboard.
* Downtownware: middleware for smart streets, buildings, buses,
pedestrians, and so forth—a key aspect being the highly dynamic nature of
these systems.
* The city as a system: system support for metropolitan scale
computational abstractions. One example is spatial programming, where tuple
spaces are embedded as a location-dependent coordination mechanism,
potentially across the city.
* Urban noir: the darker side of urban life: privacy, security ...
opportunity or barrier to adoption?
* Real-world deployments: experiences, and lessons learned.
Submissions should be 4,000 to 6,000 words long and should follow the
magazine's guidelines on style and presentation. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed in accordance with normal practice for scientific
publications. Submissions should be received by 15 January 2007 to receive
full consideration.
In addition to full-length submissions, we also invite work-in-progress
submissions of 250 words or less (submit to Molly Mraz at
the Department Editor Anthony Joseph and, if accepted, edited by the staff
into a feature for the issue. The deadline for work-in-progress submissions
is 1 April 2007.
Guest Editors:
Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow, matthew [at] dcs.gla.ac.uk
Michael Joroff, MIT, mljoroff [at] mit.edu
Tim Kindberg, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, timothy [at] hpl.hp.com
Eric Paulos, Intel Research, Berkeley, eric [at] paulos.net
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