Special Session Organiser: Dr. Albrecht Schmidt, University of Munich

Interactive context-aware systems become feasible. Embedded computers, intelligent sensors and networked actuators combined with smart algorithms allow us to create proactive and reactive environments. Moving the computer into the background and letting it disappear from the user’s perception creates however a great challenge for the development of usable ubiquitous computing systems.

In this special session we look for contributions that show novel ways of interaction for intelligent environments and context-aware space that address specific issues related to the new qualities of such settings. The following list provides some example questions where we hope to find answers:

• How to make users aware of potential functionality and allow exploration?
• How can activities be used as implicit input and how to provide feedback on them?
• How to use mobile phones as interaction devices in intelligent environments?
• What interaction design methods are appropriate for intelligent environments?
• How to specify the behaviour and reaction of an environment to user’s actions?
• What are interaction primitives in intelligent environments?
• What metaphors are useful for making an interactive intelligent environment?
• How to deal with groups of users in an intelligent environment?
• What are new interaction devices that are useful in these settings?
• How can context-awareness be exploited for the creation of user interfaces?

Papers contributing original research findings, basic research contribution, and novel ideas and concepts in the area of interaction with intelligent environments, interactive context-aware spaces, and novel interaction techniques are invited. All submission will receive 3 independent reviews.

Instructions for Manuscripts

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript The paper should not be more than 10 pages long and has to follow strictly The Institution of Engineering and Technology's guidelines which are available at http://www.theiet.org/Events/ConfExh/layout.pdf

All manuscripts should be Emailed to the special session organizer at the following email : albrecht.schmidt@acm.org . All manuscripts should be received by the workshop deadline for paper submission which is the 4th April 2006.

For further information please contact:
Dr. Albrecht Schmidt, http://www.hcilab.org/albrecht
University of Munich, Germany