Daily Schedule
8:30 Registration / Help desk opens
09:30-10:30 Workshop program
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Workshop program
12:00-13:30 or 12:30-14:00 Lunch (depends on each workshop)
13:30-15:30 Workshop program
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00-19:00 Workshop program
19:00 Registration / Help desk closes
List of Workshops
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W1 |
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W2 |
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W3 & W4 |
IOT Horizons & WAEO (merged) |
Full day |
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W5 |
Full day |
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W6 |
Full day |
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W7 |
Full day |
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W8 |
Full day |
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W10 |
Full day |
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W11 |
Full day |
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W9 |
afternoon |
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Tuesday 13th |
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W12 |
Full day |
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W13 |
Full day |
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W16 |
Full day |
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W19 |
Full day |
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W21 |
Full day |
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W14 |
morning |
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W18 |
morning |
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W20 |
morning |
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W15 |
afternoon |
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W17 |
afternoon |
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W22 |
afternoon |
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(*) UbiMount runs over both days, with the 2nd day a field trip.
(**) PETMEI and EyeWear will be two half-day workshops run one after the other. Registration to one will automatically allow access to the other.
(Quantified Self) New frontiers of Quantified Self 2: Going Beyond Numbers
Date: Monday, September 12
While the Quantified Self (QS) community is described in terms of “self-knowledge through numbers” people are increasingly demanding value. In the second edition of the New Frontiers of Quantified Self workshop, we want to investigate how to go beyond numbers in QS, refocusing the debate on the value of data for providing new services. Our aim is to explore how QS could help people make sense of their own personal information in the future, providing a multidisciplinary space to envision how this field could evolve in the next years. The workshop will combine a presentation session and a design session, where participants will create future scenarios and fictional prototypes to reflect on QS technologies.
https://newfrontiersqs2.wordpress.com/
Organizers:
Amon Rapp, Federica Cena, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld,Frank Hopfgartner, Till Plumbaum, Jakob Larsen, Kgs Lyngby, Daniel Epstein, Rúben Gouveia
(UBIMI) 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation
Date: Monday, September 12
Mobile phones allow us to reach people anywhere, anytime. In addition to the benefits for end users, researchers and developers can also benefit from the powerful devices that people carry on a daily basis. Collectively, mobile phones form a ubiquitous computer. The Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation (UbiMI) workshop focuses on using mobile devices as instruments to collect data and conduct mobile user studies, to understand human-behavior and routines, and to gather users’ context.
Organizers:
Denzil Ferreira, Tadashi Okoshi, Yuuki Nishiyama, Christian Koehler,Jung Wook Park, Andrés Lucero
(IOT Horizons) New Horizons for the IoT in Everyday Life: Proactive, Shared, Sustainable
Date: Monday, September 12
IoT applications that act on behalf of people are becoming reality. In this workshop we explore the opportunities and challenges that arise when these proactive technologies become increasingly embedded in our world and carried on our bodies, particularly when converging with the emerging ‘sharing economy’ paradigm. IoT sensors enable new sharing economy services that are personalised, hyperlocal, and can be delivered at short notice, for example food sharing among neighbours to prevent waste. Yet, there are many design challenges and ethical concerns that the HCI community needs to address to make these proactive services intelligible and accountable. In this workshop we seek to begin a dialogue to gather and respond to these challenges, collect design examples and ideas, and learn from each other.
https://iothorizons.wordpress.com/
Organizers:
Joel Fischer, James Colley, Ewa Luger,Mike Golembewski, Enrico Costanza,Sarvapali Ramchurn, Stephen Viller, Ian Oakley, Jon Froehlich
(HASCA) 4th Int Workshop on Human Activity Sensing Corpus and Applications: Towards Open-Ended Context Awareness
Date: Monday, September 12
The objective of this workshop is to share the experiences among current researchers around the challenges of real-world activity recognition, the role of datasets and tools, and breakthrough approaches towards open-ended contextual intelligence. This workshop deals with the challenges of designing reproducible experimental setups, running large-scale dataset collection campaigns, designing activity and context recognition methods that are robust and adaptive, and evaluating systems in the real world.
As a special topic this year, we wish to reflect on the challenges and possible approaches to recognise situations, events or activities outside of a statically pre-defined pool – which is the current state of the art – and instead adopt an “open-ended view” on activity and context awareness. This may take combinations of advances in the automatic discovery of relevant patterns in sensor data, advances in experience sampling and wearable technologies to unobtrusively discover the semantic meaning of such patterns, advances in crowd-sourcing of dataset acquisition and annotation and new “open-ended” human activity modeling techniques.
Organizers:
Nobuo Kawaguchi, Nobuhiko Nishio, Daniel Roggen, Sozo Inoue, Susanna Pirttikangas, Kristof van Laerhoven
(UbiMount) Ubiquitous Computing in the Mountains
Date: Monday, September 12 & Tuesday, September 13 (field trip)
Mobile and wearable computing has great potential to support alpine outdoor sport activities. This includes, but is not limited to, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, paragliding, and skiing. Interestingly, technology for tracking, monitoring and supporting sport activities is broadly used in sports like running or cycling, but has not reached the top of the mountains yet. Nevertheless, such technologies could support people in many mountain scenarios such as activity tracking, navigation, or emergency support.
Technologies and applications for mountaineers can learn from ubiquitous computing research in many ways to provide more joyful, motivating and safer outdoor experiences. This workshop addresses the promises and challenges that arise, when Ubicomp technologies are applied to alpine activities. During this two day workshop the participants will present their positions and research, followed by a hands-on experience on current technology during a field trip.
Organizers:
Florian Daiber, Johannes Schöning, Keith Cheverst, Jonna Häkkilä, Massimo Zancanaro,Cassim Ladha, Felix Kosmalla, Frederik Wiehr
Workshop on Wearables for Sports
Date: Monday, September 12
Wearables are becoming mainstream technology, however there is still room for improvement in the sports domain of this field. Monitoring performance and collecting large scale data are of high interest among athletes – amateurs and professionals alike. The current state-of-the art wearable solutions for sports analysis are able to provide individual statistics to the user, however they have shortcomings in certain aspects, such as isolating and visualizing important information for the user, beyond statistics. This workshop focuses on the application of wearable technology in sports. We will explore novel ideas and application scenarios of how sensors and actuators are capable of supporting athletes in monitoring and improving their performance. We will discuss the design space of the domain by bringing together experts from various communities and exchanging ideas from different perspectives on wearables for sports applications. Participants will collaboratively produce sports related prototype applications.
https://www5.cs.fau.de/ubicomp2016/
Organizers:
Christine Martindale, Markus Wirth, Stefan Schneegass, Markus Zrenner, Thomas Kautz, Dominik Schuldhaus, Benjamin H. Groh, Peter Blank, Bjoern Eskofier
(UnderWare) Aesthetic, Expressive, and Functional On-Skin Technologies
Date: Monday, September 12
Emerging technologies allow for novel classes of interactive wearable devices that can be worn directly on skin, nails and hair. This one-day workshop explores, discusses and envisions the future of these on-skin technologies. The workshop addresses three important themes: aesthetic design to investigate the combination of interactive technology with personalized fashion elements and beauty products, expressive and multi-modal interactions for mobile scenarios, and technical function, including novel fabrication methods, technologies and their applications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines to rethink the boundaries of technology on the body and to generate an agenda for future research and technology.
http://underware.media.mit.edu
Organizers:
Joe Paradiso, Chris Schmandt, Katia Vega, Hsin-Liu Cindy Kao, Rébecca Kleinberger, Xin Liu, Jie Qi, Asta Roseway, Ali Yetisen, Jürgen Steimle, Martin Weigel
3rd Workshop on Full-Body and Multisensory Experience
Date: Monday, September 12
The workshop on “Full-Body and Multisensory Experience” aims at discussing the rich possibilities that the body offers to experience the external world and the prospects that arise for interaction designers when these often-neglected abilities are taken into account. In particular, the workshop will focus on the rediscovery of the human senses, either alone or in a multimodal combination, and of the perceptual-motor abilities of our body. The one-day workshop is divided in three steps: first phase is for the generation of ideas on multisensory interfaces, in the second phase, participants will have the possibilities to explore and rediscover their sensorimotor abilities through several exercises and games; in the third and last phase, there will be a further creative session in order to evaluate how the full body and multisensory activities have fostered people’s creative processes. The aim of the whole experience is twofold: first, inspiring participants in designing novel concepts for multisensory interfaces; second, providing a preliminary study on the effect of these exercises in fostering creativity and supporting the design process of multisensory interfaces.
https://sites.google.com/site/bodysenseux/
Organizers:
Maurizio Caon, Assunta Matassa, Leonardo Angelini, Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Aneesha Singh, Nadia Berthouze
(WAHM) 3rd Workshop on Ubiquitous Technologies for Augmenting the Human Mind
Date: Monday, September 12
The past years have seen a growing interest in augmenting human cognition – attention, engagement, memory, learning, etc – through ubiquitous technologies. With the ongoing research and development of near-constant capture devices, unlimited storage, and algorithms for processing and retrieving captured recordings, the resulting personal “lifelogs” have opened the door to a vast range of applications. In the third rendition of this workshop series, we focus on technologies and applications of capturing and integrating personal experiences into everyday use cases. With the question What constitutes a modern lifelog?, we would like to invite researchers, designers, and practitioners to envision and exchange ideas on how ubiquitous technologies and applications can help enhance human cognition in everyday life. For example, search requests may no longer purely retrieve information from online archives, but take into account personal experiences. In this one-day workshop, we would like to formulate visions and concrete application scenarios for making use of ubiquitous technologies in order to push personal data to an application layer where it is used to support and augment human cognition and the human mind.
Organizers:
Tilman Dingler, Kai Kunze, Evangelos Niforatos, Cathal Gurrin, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Andreas Dengel, Koichi Kise
Mental Health and Well-being: Sensing and Intervention
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Mental health issues affect a significant fraction of the population and can result in debilitating outcomes. Even though the impact and severity of these disorders appear to increase over time particularly among younger generations, mental health problems often remain undiagnosed and untreated. As such, there has been an increasing focus on early detection and prevention of these issues. But, existing clinical tools — mostly self-assessment based surveys — often lack the ability to track contextual and behavioral cues reflecting onset of illness. Given the expanding sensing abilities of smartphones as well as the recent high-ownership among general population, smartphone based technologies have the potential to be particularly useful for early detection of mental health disorders and providing effective interventions. The goal of this workshop is to bring interested UbiComp researchers together to discuss various requirements, opportunities, challenges and next steps in developing a holistic approach for sensing and intervention in the context of mental health.
https://ubicomp-mental-health.github.io/workshop-2016.html
Organizers:
Saeed Abdullah, Varun Mishra, Andrew Campbell, Gregory Abowd, Tanzeem Choudhury
(IOPH) DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND EVALUATING THE INTERNET OF PERSONAL HEALTH
Date: Monday, September 12
Ubiquitous computing technologies have the potential to revolutionize the support of chronic health conditions: improving quality of life, reducing costs and optimizing health outcomes. Wearable networks of connected devices and sensors offer the prospect of personalized support and contextually aware advice, for those with specific chronic health conditions. However, there are many obstacles and concerns that need to be addressed before the full potential can be realized.
This workshop aims to bring together those interested in developing ubiquitous health management and related personal decision support systems to identify how gaps in knowledge can be addressed and design practices can be improved to better support key communities and contexts of use in this rapidly growing field.
Organizers:
Dmitri Katz, Eirik Årsand, Nick Dalton, Simon Holland, Clare Martin, Carl Olsson, Blaine Price
Smarticipation – Intelligent Personal Guidance of Human Behavior Utilizing Anticipatory Models
Date: Tuesday, September 13
In today’s fast paced environment, society is confronted with information overload, stress, and health issues. These are generally caused by accelerating technological evolution, increasing time pressure, and physical inactivity. So-called anticipatory systems, which guide users or intervene in their daily life, are seen as a very promising solution to overcome these issues. This workshop aims to share experiences of current researches on anticipatory systems in order to understand the extent of how such systems could be a solution and how they could provide personal guidance given the discovered traits of human behavior. We invite the submission of papers in the emerging research field of anticipatory mobile computing that focus on understanding, design, and development of such systems. We also welcome contributions that investigate underlying prediction models or give an insight into human behavior. The expected workshop outcome is a summary of recent challenges of anticipatory applications and interventions.
https://smarticipation.wordpress.com
Organizers:
Christian Meurisch, Usman Naeem, Muhammad Awais Azam, Frederik Janssen, Benedikt Schmidt, Max Muhlhauser
(WAEO) Workshop on Autonomous Everyday Objects: Exploring Actuation in Ubiquitous Devices
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Since the earliest explorations of mechanical devices, technologists have used movement to both fascinate and intrigue observers and to give the impression of intelligence. Equally, classic visions of future homes presented domestic environments suffused with actuated devices, moving and responding in response to their inhabitants. As sensors and actuators have become more ubiquitous, our potential to develop low-cost actuated devices, which employ interactive movements, has increased. In this workshop, we wish to critically unpack a design space around connected things, autonomous behaviours and smart environments, asking how the objects and devices we use might come to appear more “intelligent” through interaction and movement. We aim to explore how intelligence in such everyday objects is seen and enacted and how physical movement of interfaces can be leveraged for ubicomp and HCI.
http://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/publicweb/ubicompws/
Organizers:
Diana Nowacka, Katrin Wolf, Enrico Costanza, David Kirk
(HotPlanet) The 7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement
Date: Tuesday, September 13
The recent advances of mobile devices, online social networks, and the emergence of the Internet of Things have driven the corresponding data collection and analytics to planetary scale. It is, thus, essential to provide a forum to discuss the technical advances, share the lessons, experiences, and challenges associated with real-world large-scale deployment. The 7th International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-Scale Measurement (HotPlanet ’16) is to provide such a forum for the researchers and practitioners in the fields mentioned above. By bringing together the experts in these fields, and through thoughtful discussions and valuable sharing, HotPlanet ’16 aims to advance the work in these fields forward.
http://wi-stream-1.cse.nd.edu/HotPlanet16/
Organizers:
Pan Hui, Yanyong Zhang, Zhonghong Ou, Aaron Striegel
(VLSU) Collective Adaptation in Very Large Scale Ubicomp: Towards a Superorganism of Wearables
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Personalized wearable ICT systems presented in fashionable and appealing lifestyle-designs have gained critical user acceptance, and comprise momentum to bring wearable computing to a socio-technical mass phenomenon within the next few years. Early indicators for this expected wearable systems ‘tsunami’ are the ‘spring tide’ of 7.6 billion mobile connections as of the end of 2015, 21.3 mio. shipped smart watches in 2015 with an expected annually growth of 42.8% until 2019, and a possible market for more than 200 million wearable devices in 2019.
The 3rd instantiation of the workshop (after UBICOMP 2014 and UBICOMP 2015) will reattach to last years agenda and ask the questions on the potentials and opportunities of turning these massively deployed wearable systems to a globe spanning superorganism of socially interactive personal digital assistants. While the individual wearables are of heterogeneous provenance and typically act autonomously, we can assume that they can (and will) self-organize into large scale cooperative collectives, with humans being mostly out-of-the-loop. We may not assume a common objective or central controller, but rather volatile network topologies, co-dependence and internal competition, non-linear and non-continuous dynamics, and sub-ideal, failure prone operation. We could refer to these emerging massive collectives of wearables as a “superorganism”, since it exhibits properties of a living organism (like e.g. ‘collective intelligence’) on its own. In order to properly exploit such superorganisms, we need to develop a scientific understanding of the foundational principles by which they operate.
https://www.pervasive.jku.at/ubicomp16
Organizers:
Alois Ferscha, Paul Lukowicz, Franco Zambonelli
(PURBA) The 5th Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications
Date: Tuesday, September 13
PURBA-2016 is the fifth in this series building upon the successful PURBA-2011, PURBA-2012, PURBA-2013, and PURBA-2015 workshops. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces. We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit citizens, urban planners, and policy makers. Preliminary and on-going research work are welcomed.
http://cpemis.eng.cmu.ac.th/~santi/purba2016
Organizers:
Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Teerayut Horanont, Sourav Bhattacharya, Yoshihide Sekimoto
(WMSC) Second Workshop on Mobile and Situated Crowdsourcing
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Increasingly, researchers and practitioners alike, are turning towards crowdsourcing with ubiquitous technologies due to their affordances and potential to circumvent limitations with online crowdsourcing platforms. Hence, this workshop’s main objectives are to investigate the current state of the art of mobile and situated crowdsourcing, and foster collaborations by bringing together researchers of this thriving research agenda.
http://ubicomp.oulu.fi/wmsc2016/
Organizers:
Jorge Goncalves, Simo Hosio, Maja Vukovic, Shin’ichi Konomi, Uichin Lee
The Mobile Museum: Supporting Indoor and Outdoor Experiences
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Museums are increasingly interested in offering digital experiences as a way to enhance visitors’ experience and support visits. Although technology is constantly evolving and museums have already experienced mobile technology for several decades, there are still many open challenges and criticisms of the use of mobile devices in the museum context. The Mobile Museum workshop will bring together researchers from academia and the heritage sector to discuss the use of mobile technologies in museums to support the design of engaging visitor experiences that work effectively across indoor and outdoor contexts.
http://mobilemuseum.tumblr.com/
Organizers:
Daniela De Angeli, Eamonn O’Neill, Vassilis Kostakos
Ubittention: Smart & Ambient Notification and Attention Management
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Users of digital devices are increasingly confronted with a tremendous amount of notifications that appear on multiple devices and screens in their environment. Today many users own different ubiquitous devices like a smartphone, a tablet, a notebook and a smartwatch. If an email-client is installed on every device an incoming e-mail produces up to four notifications — one on each device. In the future we will receive notifications from all our ubiquitous devices. Therefore, we need an smart attention management for incoming notifications. One way for a less interrupting attention management could be the use of ambient representations of incoming notifications. This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from academy and industry to explore how the flood of notifications on different computing devices and in smart environments can be managed, in order to avoid information overload.
http://projects.hcilab.org/ubittention/
Organizers:
Alexandra Voit, Benjamin Poppinga, Dominik Weber , Matthias Böhmer, Niels Henze, Sven Gehring, Tadashi Okoshi
Tangible Interaction with Light in the IoT
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Interacting with digital lighting systems opens new opportunities and challenges, especially when those systems are connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). This workshop aims at investigating richer interactions with interconnected lights. We strive for interactions that happen in our everyday environments and that go beyond not only swiping and tapping on a screen, but also the mere tangible switch. This workshop will be an opportunity to discuss and practice novel interactions with light, exploring human bodily and cognitive skills to grasp better the ephemerality of light and of IoT.
https://sites.google.com/site/tangiblelighting/home
Organizers:
Maurizio Caon, Leonardo Angelini, Omar Abou Khaled,Elena Mugellini, Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Jon Mason
PETMEI 2016: The 6th International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Previous work on eye tracking and eye-based human-computer interfaces mainly concentrated on making use of the eyes in traditional desktop settings. With the recent growth of interest in wearable computers, such as smartwatches, smart eyewears and low-cost mobile eye trackers, eye-based interaction techniques for mobile computing are becoming increasingly important. PETMEI 2016 focuses on the pervasive eye tracking paradigm as a trailblazer for mobile eye- based interaction to take eye tracking out into the wild, to mobile and pervasive settings. We want to stimulate and explore the creativity of these communities with respect to the implications, key research challenges, and new applications for pervasive eye tracking in ubiquitous computing. The long-term goal is to create a strong interdisciplinary research community linking these fields together and to establish the workshop as the premier forum for research on pervasive eye tracking.
Organizers:
Diako Mardanbegi, Shahram Jalaliniya, Mohamed Khamis, Paivi Majaranta
EyeWear 2016: First Workshop on Eye Wear Computing
Date: Tuesday, September 13
Smart glasses, head-mounted displays (HMDs), egocentric vision devices, and similar “smart eyewear” have recently emerged as interesting research platforms for a range of re- search fields, including human-computer interaction, ubiqui- tous computing, computer vision, and social sciences. While early prototypes were too bulky to be worn on a regular basis in daily life, new devices, such as Google Glass and J!NS Meme, look more and more like normal glasses, are light- weight, and allow for long-term use. As most of the human senses are situated on the head, we believe that these types of devices have significant potential as a research and product platform for a wide range of wearable assistive systems. The proposed workshop will bring together researchers from a wide range of computing disciplines, such as mobile and ubiquitous computing, eye tracking, optics, computer vision, human vision and perception, privacy and security, usability, as well as systems research.
Organizers:
Andreas Bulling, Kai Kunze, Ozan Cakmakci, James Rehg