[sigcomm] CFP: Sensys Workshop on Urban Sensing (UrbanSense08)

[Liqian Luo]

Call for Papers: International Workshop on Urban, Community, and Social
Applications of Networked Sensing Systems (UrbanSense08) November 4, 2008, Raleigh,
North Carolina, USA
Deadline: August 1st.

http://sensorlab.cs.dartmouth.edu/urbansensing/

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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