[Wear-Hard] CFP: Activity-Based Computing

[Thad E. Starner]

Call for Papers
Activity-Based Computing

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  1 October 2007
Author guidelines: www.computer.org/pervasive/author.htm
Submission address: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee
WIP Deadline:  See below
Publication date: March 2008

Classical desktop GUIs respond to explicit user actions such as invoking 
an application, searching on user-supplied keywords, and printing a 
user-selected document. Mobile context-aware systems can seek out 
resources (such as printers) and modulate their responses based on 
context (such as the names of restaurants in nearby locations). A new 
paradigm is emerging wherein, through the use of physical and cyber 
sensors, activity-based computing can enable a device to sense its 
user's context and appropriately modulate its response (such as 
postponing interaction until a more appropriate situation) and in some 
cases act proactively based on user activity (such as walking, eating, 
or driving).

IEEE Pervasive Computing welcomes submissions on all aspects of 
pervasive technologies that address issues related to activity-based 
computing, including:

Sensing: reliable recognition of user's current context
Context definition: identification of relevant information
Activity recognition: hardware and software support for reliably 
identifying user activities
Learning: personalization of activities based on usage
Collaboration: sharing activities across users
Roaming: support for seamless migration of activities across physical spaces
Adaptation: how computing activities can reconfigure to best use 
currently-available resources (computing, network, UI devices).
User centered design for activity-based computing
Tools for activity-based computing
Testing methodology: evaluation of activity based computing systems
Experiences with deploying and evaluating activity based systems
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 1 October 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 mgamborg at computer.org). 
These will not be peer-reviewed but will be reviewed by the Department 
Editor and, if accepted, edited by the staff into a feature for the 
issue. The deadline for work-in-progress submissions is 1 February 2008.

Guest Editors:
Dan Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University
Nigel Davies, Lancaster University
Rahul Sukthankar, Intel Research Pittsburgh
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