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                        CALL FOR PAPERS

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                          ECHISE 2005


                1st International Workshop on

       Exploiting Context Histories in Smart Environments

          www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/echise2005

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held at 3rd Int. Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE 2005)

          on Wednesday, May 11th 2005, at Munich, Germany

         (Deadline for position papers is February 23 2005)

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A promising approach to enhance the user experience in smart
environments is to exploit recorded histories of the users'
interactions in context (context histories for short). These
histories can be used to support ubiquitous/pervasive computing
applications with an enhanced understanding of the users'
activities and interactions as they expand and develop over time.
In addition, current contextual data is often imperfect and noisy
and can be smoothed from the use of histories.

Exploiting context histories may, for example, result in less
distractions, more adapted and coherent behavior of multi-computer
setups, and better support in information management and search.
The user could end up with a more supportive and comforting
environment. At the same time, however, the collection, storage,
management, and exploitation of context histories is a delicate
issue, as privacy, informational self-determination, and data
security are touched. In smart environments, there will be
multiple users interacting with multiple and heterogeneous
devices, some of them with little storage and computing power.

In this workshop we want to bring together researchers to discuss
the trade-offs of exploiting context histories for supporting user
experiences with applications in smart environments. Several
systems and approaches have already been proposed. We will set out
to shape a common vision for this emerging field by identifying
scommon requirements and issues.


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Possible topics include (but are not limited to):


* User activities that benefit from context histories
  (personal and group support)

* Detection and exploitation of relationships among information
  and context components

* Issues of inferring activities from context histories

* Issues of determining appropriate levels of granularity for
  working with context histories

* User experience of temporal ambient displays and other
  visualizations

* Issues of context recording and playback

* Enhanced situated support for user activities across physical
  and digital worlds

* User ability to author an experience

* New forms of support for search, navigation, and orientation

* Interactional information and knowledge management in context

* Aspects of sharing information from or based on context
  histories

* Support for reflective activities

* Summarization of ever increasing datasets

* How to evaluate such systems from a user perspective

* Combining multiple interaction histories

* Appropriate context modelling

* Storage, management, and dissemination of information from
  context histories

* Appropriate representation of information from context
  histories

* Smoothing of context data

* Social implications and social protocols

* Privacy, informational self-determination, and data
  security issues


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Please visit the workshop website

***** www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/echise2005 *****

for information about participation and submitting papers

and the Pervasive conference website

***** http://www.pervasive.ifi.lmu.de/ *****

for general information.


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ECHISE 2005 is organized by

              Thorsten Prante (Fraunhofer IPSI)

              Brian Meyers (Microsoft Research)

              Geraldine Fitzpatrick (University of Sussex)

              Lonnie D. Harvel (Georgia Institute of Technology)

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