[sigcomm] CFP: Sensys Workshop on Urban Sensing

[Liqian Luo]

Call for Papers: International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social

Applications of Networked Sensing Systems November 4, 2008, Raleigh,

North Carolina, USA

Deadline: August 1st.



Held in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2008 Sensing is going mobile and

people-centric. Sensors for activity recognition and GPS for location

are now being shipped in millions of top end mobile phones. This

complements other sensors already on mobile phones such as high-quality

cameras and microphones. At the same time we are seeing sensors

installed in urban environments in support of more classic environmental

sensing applications, such as, real-time feeds for air-quality,

pollutants, weather conditions, and congestion conditions around the

city. Collaborative data gathering of sensed data for people by people,

facilitated by sensing systems comprised of everyday mobile devices and

their interaction with static sensor webs, present a new frontier at the

intersection between pervasive computing and sensor networking.



This workshop promotes exchange among sensing system researchers

involved in areas, such as, mobile sensing, people-centric and

participatory sensing, urban sensing, public health, community

development, and cultural expression. It focuses on how mobile phones

and other everyday devices can be employed as network- connected,

location-aware, human-in-the-loop sensors that enable data collection,

geo-tagged documentation, mapping, modeling, and other case-making

capabilities.



This workshop is the third in a series of meetings held at SenSys over

last few years. The first workshop in 2006 dealt with the concept of the

world sensor web and the second at SenSys 2007 focused on sensing on

everyday mobile phones in support of participatory research.



We particularly encourage position papers on the following topics (but

not limited to):



- Applications and architectural ideas

- Mobile phones sensing systems

- Activity recognition and classification techniques

- Data gathering, analysis and visualization of sensed data

- Privacy and security issues

- Sensing and its application to social networks

- City-wide urban sensing

- Machine learning for human and group behavior

- Participatory and opportunistic sensing

- Body area sensor networks

- Sensing for creational applications, healthcare, public health,

community development, and cultural expression.

- Interaction between static sensor webs and mobile sensors.



Paper Submission Instructions:



Submissions should contain 5 U.S. letter pages in PDF format, including

all references, figures and tables. Papers should be single column using

11pt font. Proceedings will be made available to workshop participants

online ahead of the workshop and as a printed copy.



Paper submission is through the EDAS system.





Important Dates:



Papers submissions due Friday, August 1, 2008 (5:00pm EST)

Notification to authors Friday, August 29, 2008

Camera-ready copy due Friday, September 19, 2008 (5:00pm EST)

Workshop date November 4, 2008





Organizers:



Frank Bentley, Motorola

Assaf Biderman, MIT

Péter Boda, Nokia Research

Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington

Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth College, (Co-Chair)

Hae Don Chon, Samsung

Landon Cox, Duke University

Deborah Estrin, UCLA, (Co-Chair)

Lama Nachman, Intel Research

Tapan Parikh, UC Berkeley

Matt Welsh, Harvard University

Sean White, Columbia University

Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research

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