*** Closing date for submissions: 8th August 2003 ***

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
UBICOMP COMMUNITIES: PRIVACY AS BOUNDARY NEGOTIATION
As part of Ubicomp 2003

INTRODUCTION

Ubiquitous computing conjures visions of big and little brother, and
ever-diminishing privacy. But it also opens up new forms of communication,
collaboration and social relations. Full participation in communities
involves exchange of information, and maintenance of a visible, public
persona. Privacy is often regarded as an imperative in its own right, but
this perspective ignores the countervailing need for disclosure in social
settings. This workshop takes a balancing perspective: it treats community
participation as a goal, and balances the need for disclosure against the
need for privacy. Privacy is not an abstract consideration, but a practical
process of negotiating and managing boundaries. The workshop will explore
both social perspectives and technical approaches to this issue. This
workshop builds on last year’s ubicomp workshop on “Socially-informed design
of privacy-enhancing solutions in ubiquitous computing”.

POSSIBLE THEMES

This workshop aims to provide a forum for ubicomp system developers and
researchers, security researchers, and social scientists to collaboratively
explore the future of trust-sensitive and community tools in ubicomp. Areas
of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to) the following
topics:

1. Community models and Ubicomp: What are the emerging and anticipated forms
of community supported by ubiquitous computing? What are the communication
modes? How are norms established and maintained?  What design principles can
be discovered?

2. Communities and Privacy: What forms of disclosure and discovery are
appropriate for ubicomp communities? How is disclosure mediated? What kinds
of disclosure boundary are appropriate? How can this be exposed and
supported by technology? How can disclosure boundaries be negotiated? Are
there asymmetries that need to be mitigated? This topic has both social and
technical dimensions.

3. Communities and Trust: With respect to privacy and disclosure, how is
“trust” manifest in ubicomp communities? How are reputations, reliabilities,
and risks established, measured, and represented? What forms of information
or other exchange occur in the community? How might ubicomp systems handle
differences in power, access, and expertise within a community?

WORKSHOP FORMAT & TYPE OF SUBMISSION

This workshop will last for 1 full day and will be limited to 20
participants (not including the workshop organizers) to enable lively and
productive discussions. Participants will be invited on the basis of
position papers. Such position papers should be no longer than 4 pages
excluding references, and they will be selected based on their originality,
technical merit and topical relevance.

The workshop will be organized into panels and breakout sessions. Depending
on the submitted position papers, the workshop will consist of 3 to 4
panels. Each panel lasts about an hour, and includes presentation of 5 or 6
position papers that share a similar topic, followed by organizer-moderated
discussions. The morning panels are devoted to community-oriented ubicomp
systems, while the afternoon panels are devoted to trust issues manifested
in those systems. Also in the afternoon, there will be breakout sessions
lasting about 1.5 to 2 hours, followed by reports to a plenary session. In
addition, coffee breaks and lunch will serve as opportunities for informal
discussion. To the extent possible, participants will have lunch together
within short walking distance of the workshop location.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: August 8, 2003
Notifications: August 22, 2003
Workshop date: October 12, 2003
Conference date: October 12 - 15, 2003

HOW TO SUBMIT

Papers should be submitted to in PDF or MS Word format on or before August
8, 2003 to [log in to unmask] . It is recommended that
authors limit their submissions to no more than 6 pages, A4 or letter size.

CONTACT

Full details can be found on the workshop web site:
http://guir.berkeley.edu/privacyworkshop2003/

Declarations of interest and informal queries should be directed to the
workshop
organisers:

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