Call for Papers Urban Computing http://tinyurl.com/w6pej
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 January 2007 Author guidelines: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm Submission address: http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]). These will not be peer-reviewed but will be reviewed by 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
