CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11)

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Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona:

Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large& Heterogeneous Data

http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/
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An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to discover and match meaning
dynamically in a world of increasingly large data. This workshop aims
to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and government
for interaction and discussion. The workshop will feature:

* A panel discussion representing industrial and governmental input,
entitled "Big Society meets Big Data: Industry and Government
Applications of Mapping Meaning". Panel members will include:
* Peter Mika (Yahoo!)
* Alon Halevy (Google)
* Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
* (tbc)
* An invited talk from Fausto Giunchglia, discussing the relationship
between social computing and ontology matching;
* Paper and poster presentations;
* Workshop sponsored by: Yahoo! Research, W3C and others

Workshop Description

The problem of semantic alignment - that of two systems failing to
understand one another when their representations are not identical -
occurs in a huge variety of areas: Linked Data, database integration,
e-science, multi-agent systems, information retrieval over structured
data; anywhere, in fact, where semantics or a shared structure are
necessary but centralised control over the schema of the data sources is
undesirable or impractical. Yet this is increasingly a critical problem
in the world of large scale data, particularly as more and more of this
kind of data is available over the Web.

In order to interact successfully in an open and heterogeneous
environment, being able to dynamically and adaptively integrate large
and heterogeneous data from the Web "on the go" is necessary. This may
not be a precise process but a matter of finding a good enough
integration to allow interaction to proceed successfully, even if a
complete solution is impossible.

Considerable success has already been achieved in the field of ontology
matching and merging, but the application of these techniques - often
developed for static environments - to the dynamic integration of
large-scale data has not been well studied.

Presenting the results of such dynamic integration to both end-users and
database administrators - while providing quality assurance and
provenance - is not yet a feature of many deployed systems. To make
matters more difficult, on the Web there are massive amounts of
information available online that could be integrated, but this
information is often chaotically organised, stored in a wide variety of
data-formats, and difficult to interpret.

This area has been of interest in academia for some time, and is
becoming increasingly important in industry and - thanks to open data
efforts and other initiatives - to government as well. The aim of this
workshop is to bring together practitioners from academia, industry and
government who are involved in all aspects of this field: from those
developing, curating and using Linked Data, to those focusing on
matching and merging techniques.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Integration of large and heterogeneous data
* Machine-learning over structured data
* Ontology evolution and dynamics
* Ontology matching and alignment
* Presentation of dynamically integrated data
* Incentives and human computation over structured data and ontologies
* Ranking and search over structured and semi-structured data
* Quality assurance and data-cleansing
* Vocabulary management in Linked Data
* Schema and ontology versioning and provenance
* Background knowledge in matching
* Extensions to knowledge representation languages to better support change
* Inconsistency and missing values in databases and ontologies
* Dynamic knowledge construction and exploitation
* Matching for dynamic applications (e.g., p2p, agents, streaming)
* Case studies, software tools, use cases, applications
* Open problems
* Foundational issues
Applications and evaluations on data-sources that are from the Web and
Linked Data are particularly encouraged.

Submission

LHD-11 invites submissions of both full length papers of no more than 6
pages and position papers of 1-3 pages. Authors of full-papers which are
considered to be both of a high quality and of broad interest to most
attendees will be invited to give full presentations; authors of more
position papers will be invited to participate in "group panels" and in
a poster session.

All accepted papers (both position and full length papers) will be
published as part of the IJCAI workshop proceedings, and will be
available online from the workshop website. After the workshop, we will
be publishing a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence Review and
authors of the best quality submissions will be invited to submit
extended versions of their papers (subject to the overall standard of
submissions being appropriately high).

All contributions should be in pdf format and should be uploaded via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lhd11. Authors should follow
the IJCAI author instructions
http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/calls/formatting_instructions.

Important Dates
Abstract submission: March 14, 2011
Notification: April 25, 2011
Camera ready: May 16, 2011
Early registration: TBA
Late registration: TBA
Workshop: 16th July, 2011

Organising Committee:
Fiona McNeill (University of Edinburgh)
Harry Halpin (Yahoo! Research)
Michael Chan (University of Edinburgh)

Program committee:
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam)
Paolo Besana (University of Edinburgh)
Roi Blanco (Yahoo! Research)
Paolo Bouquet (University of Trento)
Ulf Brefeld (Yahoo! Research)
Alan Bundy (University of Edinburgh)
Ciro Cattuto (ISI Foundation)
Vinay Chaudri (SRI)
James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
Oscar Corcho (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Shady Elbassuoni (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes)
Eraldo Fernandez (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Aldo Gangemi (CNR)
Pat Hayes (IHMC)
Ivan Herman (W3C)
Tom McCutcheon (Dstl)
Shuai Ma (Beihang University)
Ashok Malhorta (Oracle)
Daniel Miranker (University of Texas-Austin)
Adam Pease (Articulate Software)
Valentina Presutti (CNR)
David Roberston (University of Edinburgh)
Juan Sequeda (University of Texas-Austin)
Pavel Shvaiko (Informatica Trentina)
Jamie Taylor (Google)
Eveylne Viegas (Microsoft Research)

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CFP: Workshop on Video interaction - Making broadcasting a successful social media

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION II

CHI 2011 Workshop on Video interaction – Making broadcasting a successful social media
Vancouver, BC, May 7, 2011

http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

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A new type of social medium services, which e.g. makes it possible to capture live video and share it in real time to a web page, is becoming increasingly popular. Although the services are growing in numbers of users, it is still an immature application area and so is the research on this topic.

We invite you to a workshop to investigate the barriers and resources for making video interaction and sharing mobile a successful social media, through discussing topics, such as literacy, collaboration, hybridity, utility and privacy. We aim to connect researchers working with video related research to frame this interesting research field and to foster future collaboration. A concrete outcome of the workshop will be a proposal for a journal special issue on the topic of making mobile broadcasting a successful social media that the organizers will submit to appropriate venues.

TO PARTICIPATE:

Please submit a position paper (2-4 pages in the CHI Extended Abstracts format) related to your experience with respect to the workshop theme in your research practice, to chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org. You are welcome (but not required) to send in a free format appendix, movie, sketch, or application. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop, and for at least one conference day.

IMPORTANT DATES:

- Deadline for submission: January 14, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: February 11, 2011
- Workshop at CHI 2011: May 7, 2011

ORGANISERS:

Oskar Juhlin, Mobile Life@Interactive Institute
Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Center
Frank Bentley, Motorola Mobility
Dave Kirk, Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham
Måns Adler, Bambuser

Up-to-date information on the workshop will be available at: http://mobilebroadcasting.wordpress.com/

If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact organisers at
chi11_mobilebroadcasting@mobilelifecentre.org

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CFP: Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices 2011

Take another look at standard, "packaged" technolologies:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (apologies for any cross posting)

As part of
The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011)
http://cts2011.cisedu.info

Designing and Using Collaborative Universal Devices
(DUCUD 2011)

This workshop is about the challenges, solutions and experiences pertaining to the design and use of standardized technologies, indeed, standardization as such, in order to support comprehensive collaboration. Thus, we are interested in how interaction is supported within different group sizes and heterogeneous groups of users, with "one-size-fits-all" type of technologies. Examples range from Wikis to SAP, mobile phones, iPADs, Sharepoint, etc.

Please find the call at:
http://cts2011.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop-14--ducud

May 23 - 27, 2011
The Sheraton University City Hotel
Philadelphia, PA, USA

Extended submission deadlines:
Workshop papers ----------------------------------- January 21, 2011
Notification of Acceptance ------------------------ February 10, 2011
Registration& Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ------- March 1, 2011

Best regards and welcome from
Steinar Kristoffersen,
workshop chair

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CFP: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Call for papers: Workshop on Social Behavior Analysis

Santa Barbara, CA , 24 or 25 March 2011 (This is a one day workshop,
exact date will be announced soon), in conjunction with FG 2011

Important Dates

* Paper submission: 12 December 2010
* Notification to the authors: 13 January 2011
* Receipt of camera ready copy: 19 January 2011

Webpage:http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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There is a strong interest in fields like computer vision, audio
processing, multimedia, HCI, and pervasive computing, in designing
computational models of human interaction in realistic social settings.
Such interest is boosted by the increasing capacity to acquire
behavioral data with cameras, microphones and other fixed and mobile
sensors. Unlike the traditional HCI view, which emphasizes communication
between a person and a computer, the emphasis of an emerging body of
research has been shifting towards communicative social behavior in
natural situations, with examples such as informal conversational
settings, general workplace environments, interviews, and meeting
scenarios.

The workshop will gather, discuss, and disseminate unpublished work on
computational models and systems for the analysis of social behavior.
Given the scope of Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition conference, we
would like to focus on automatic techniques for visual analysis of human
communication and on the applications that are built on top of it. We
welcome contributions that present robust techniques for the analysis of
gestures and facial expressions in natural conversational environments
to model social behavior in everyday life and reason about them. We also
strongly encourage the participation of colleagues from behavioral
sciences: studies of nonverbal behavior and social interaction provide
highly valuable information, concepts, and frameworks to guide automatic
analysis, while efforts in automatic analysis of social behavior provide
new tools, data, and insights to behavioral scientists interested in
nonverbal behavior and social interaction.

We invite contributions that address the following (non-exhaustive) list
of topics:

Social behavior analysis
* Analysis and recognition of visual social cues and others:
o Visual nonverbal cues (body postures, hand gestures, head
gestures, actions ...)
o Multimodal affect recognition
o Nonverbal cues from other sensors
* Multimodal computational models for the analysis, estimation, and
prediction of social behavior aspects and dimensions (interest level,
dominance, rapport, deception...) and of individual properties affecting
it (e.g., personality traits, preferences...)
* Analysis of conversational dynamics
* Multimodal data corpora for social behavior analysis

Systems and devices for capturing social behavior
* Smart camera/microphone systems
* Novel sensor technologies
* Wearable devices
* Cell phones

Socially aware systems and applications
* Computers and robots in the human interaction loop
* Individual and group self-awareness
* Educational applications
* Workplace applications
* Healthcare applications
* Game applications
* Art& creative applications

Organizers:
Oya Aran, Idiap Research Institute
Daniel Gatica-Perez, Idiap Research Institute
Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California
Fabio Pianesi, University of Trento

More information can be found on the workshop web site:
http://www.idiap.ch/~oaran/sba/index.html
<http://www.idiap.ch/%7Eoaran/sba/>

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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION: October 04, 2010 ***

*** Please register abstracts before September 26, 2010 **

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Call for Papers
Fifth International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems (IWSOS 2011)
KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 23-25, 2011
http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu
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IWSOS 2011 is the fifth workshop in a series of multidisciplinary events
dedicated to self-organization in networks and networked systems.

The concept of self-organization is becoming increasingly popular in
various branches of technology. A self-organizing system may be
characterized by global, coordinated activity arising spontaneously from
local interactions between the system's components. This activity is
distributed over all components, without a central controller
supervising or directing the behavior. Self-organization relates the
behavior of the individual components (the microscopic level) to the
resulting structure and functionality of the overall system (the
macroscopic level). Simple interactions at the microscopic level may
give rise to complex, adaptive, and robust behavior at the macroscopic
level.

The necessity of self-organization in networks and networked systems is
caused by the growing scale, complexity, and dynamics of future
networked systems. This is because traditional methods tend to be
reductionistic, i.e., they neglect the effect of interactions between
components. However, in complex networked systems, interactions cannot
be ignored, since they are relevant for the future state of the system.
In this sense, self-organization becomes a useful approach for dealing
with the complexity inherent in networked systems.

The workshop addresses self-organization different types of
technological networks, for example, but not limited to:

* Communication and computer networks
* Transportation networks
* Energy networks
* Robot networks

Research from related fields is also welcome. Building on the success of
its predecessors, this workshop aims at bringing together leading
international researchers to create a visionary forum for discussing the
future of self-organization in networked systems.

**Key Topics**

* Design and analysis of self-organizing and self-managing systems
* Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing systems
* Robustness and adaptation in self-organizing systems, including
self-protection, diagnosis, and healing
* Self-configuration and self-optimization
* Self-organizing group and pattern formation
* Self-organizing synchronization
* Self-organizing resource allocation
* Self-organizing mechanisms for task allocation and coordination
* Self-organizing information dissemination and content search
* Security and safety in self-organizing networked systems
* Structure and dynamics of self-organizing networks
* Risks and limits of self-organization
* The human in the loop of self-organizing networks
* User and operator-related aspects of human-made self-organizing
systems
* Applications of self-organizing networks and networked systems
* Peer-to-peer networks, vehicular networks, zeroconfiguration
protocols
* Autonomous traffic lights, self-organized cruise control
* Decentralized power management in the smart grid
* Collaborative unmanned ground or aerial vehicles, mobile sensor
networks

**Important Dates**

* Abstract Submission: September 26, 2010
* Extended Full Paper Submission: October 04, 2010
* Notification: November 17, 2010
* Camera-ready papers due: December 01, 2010
* Conference: February 23-25, 2011

**Chairs**

General chairs:

* Martina Zitterbart, KIT, Germany
* Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany

Program chairs:

* Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt and Lakeside Labs,
Austria
* Carlos Gershenson, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Keynote Speakers:

* Hermann Haken, professor emeritus, University of Stuttgart and
founder of synergetics
* Hod Lipson, associate professor at the Cornell Computational
Synthesis Lab

**Papers**

IWSOS invites submission of manuscripts that present original research
results or research ideas, and that have not been previously published
or are currently under review by another conference or journal. Any
previous or simultaneous publication of related material should be
explicitly noted in the submission. All papers must be submitted in PDF
format. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of
the international program committee and judged on originality,
significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness.

The Springer "LNCS Proceedings" style should be used for submission.
Templates are for LaTeX and Word available at http://tiny.cc/qiohy.
Click http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu for detailed information for authors.

* Full Papers. Full papers should describe original research results.
Submissions should be full-length papers up to 12 pages using the LNCS
style (including figures, references, and a short abstract).

* Challenge Papers. Submissions should be position papers, challenging
papers, and papers presenting first results. The papers must be up to 6
pages length (LNCS style, including all figures and references), and
must include a short abstract.

Both paper types should be submitted via the EDAS system at:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9217

When submitting your paper, please consider to allow your paper to be
reviewed by a Shadow TPC. A Shadow TPC will allow young researchers and
PhD students to learn how to work in a normal TPC, but it has absolutely
no influence on the actual TPC's review process and paper selection.
Besides helping to educate young researchers, you will get additional
review comments regarding your work. For more information, please refer
to http://iwsos2011.tm.kit.edu.

**Proceedings**

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. At least one of the authors of
each accepted paper must attend IWSOS to present the paper.

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CFP: International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies (MCPT-2011)

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MCPT-2011 - The First International Workshop on
Mobile Computing Platforms and Technologies
February 6-11, 2011, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, co-located with Eurocast 2011
http://www.fh-hagenberg.at/mcpt2011
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Mobile platforms and technologies surround us throughout our everyday lives;
billions of mobile phones and trillions of embedded mobile systems interact
with each other and their users. The resulting scientific challenges are
inherently interdisciplinary and encompass a multitude of specific fields,
including systems design, sensors and perception, interaction techniques,
networking and protocols, security and privacy, and low-level hardware
design.

MCPT-2011, the First International Workshop on Mobile Computing Platforms
and Technologies, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from
industry to present novel ideas and developments in mobile computing and
discuss their application to current and future platforms. With a focus on
scientific novelty, MCPT-2011 provides a forum to discuss technology and
platform issues with a specific focus on mobile aspects.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
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* Frameworks, toolkits, and middleware for mobile systems
* Platforms for end user development
* Personalization of mobile devices
* Context and location awareness
* Computational perception and environmental sensing
* Augmented reality and mobile multi-modal interaction
* Mobile and spatial interaction techniques
* Ad-hoc and spontaneous networking
* Mobile group interaction
* Security and privacy issues specific to mobile computing
* Mobile trust and reputation systems
* Mobility in wearable computing
* Mobile hardware and communication technology
* Techniques for power management on mobile systems
* Evaluation and comparative reviews of mobile platforms

The submission process is split into two phases:
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* Pre-workshop submissions are limited to two pages in Springer LNCS format
and should describe the core issues and results in the form of an extended
abstract. These submissions are reviewed by an international program
committee in terms of scientific novelty, technical soundness, and scope.
Accepted extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings
with an ISBN number.

* Post-workshop submissions are limited to eight pages in Springer LNCS
format. Based on the extended abstracts and the workshop presentations,
selected authors will be invited to submit full versions for final
publication in Springer LNCS post-conference proceedings. All selected
papers will be shepherded by program committee members.

Workshop Co-Chairs
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Clemens Holzmann, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Rene Mayrhofer, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria

Program Committee
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Petteri Alahuhta, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Kilian Förster, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michael Haller, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Paul Holleis, DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Germany
Karin Hummel, University of Vienna, Austria
Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Gabriele Kotsis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Matthias Kranz, University of Technology Munich, Germany
Kristof van Laerhoven, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marc Langheinrich, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, University of Munich, Germany
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Petteri Nurmi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Enrico Rukzio, Lancaster University, UK
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt, Germany
James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Thomas Strang, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Ersin Uzun, University of California Irvine, USA
Alexander Varshavsky, AT&T Labs Research, USA

Important Dates
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Extended abstracts submission deadline: October 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: December 1, 2010
Workshop: February 6-11, 2011
Final paper submission deadline: April 30, 2011

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CfP: Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 10), NordiCHI 2010

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Second Call for Papers for the International Workshop on
Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 2010)
In Conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
October 17, 2010
http://omue10.offis.de/
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Workshop Theme and Goals
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Nowadays the number of sold smart phones as well as the number of
features of those devices is steadily increasing. Mobile applications
are one of the major driving factors, as they can easily be distributed
through dedicated mobile application distribution platforms, e.g.
Apple's App Store, Google's Android Market. Additionally many smart
phones have a lot of sensors integrated, which makes them more and more
aware of the situation a user is in.

At the same time the usage of mobile devices is rapidly becoming an
integrated part of everyday life. This means that in order to understand
the user experience and the usability of a product it is in general not
enough to perform studies in the laboratory. Instead the mobile context
needs to be taken into account explicitly, and one needs to be able to
study users and usage "in the wild". The challenge of understanding a
mobile user experience is a rapidly evolving field, and it is the
purpose of this workshop to bring together people from industry and
academia in order to exchange methods and experiences related to
understanding the mobile user and the mobile usage.

In this workshop we want to discuss the most important factors,
parameters, and research questions about how to study and involve users
in a truly mobile setting. The goal of the workshop is to provide an
overview of available methods and techniques, but also to produce a set
of guidelines for studying and interacting with users in a mobile
setting. The workshop will focus on the process and methodologies and
will not go into deeper technical details (e.g. algorithms for activity
recognition).

Topics
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Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

* Observing and interacting with a user on the move
* Unsupervised data gathering
* The mobile device as a platform for user studies
* Specific situations and key parameters
* Mixed methods in a mobile setting
* Ethical considerations
* Safety and security of study participants

Submission details
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Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a position paper
or an industrial case study to the workshop organizers. Authors of
accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop by
giving a 10-15 minutes presentation.

Submissions of papers covering the topics of the workshop should be
submitted by 27th of August 2010. Position papers (2 to 4 pages) and
industrial case studies (1 to 2 pages) should be submitted in NordiCHI
ACM format.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out 10th of September 2010. At
least one author from each accepted submission is expected to attend the
workshop. Accepted submission will be compiled in the workshop
proceedings which will also contain the guidelines resulting from the
workshop activity. The proceedings will be made available at the
workshop website.

Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Benjamin Poppinga
(poppinga@offis.de).

Schedule
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August 27, 2010 - Submission Deadline
September 10, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
October 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Deadline
October 17, 2010 - Workshop Date

Organising Committee
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Benjamin Poppinga, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University
Wilko Heuten, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
David McGookin, University of Glasgow
Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg
Ginger B. Claassen, C-Lab, Siemens AG
Martin Pielot, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology
Hakan Eftring, Lund University
Jörn Peters, Soest District

This workshop is organized within the HaptiMap project:
http://www.haptimap.org/ - FP7-ICT-224675

Best Regards,
Benjamin Poppinga
(on behalf of the Workshop Organizers)

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Benjamin Poppinga
Human Machine Interaction

OFFIS
FuE Bereich Gesundheit | R&D Division Health
Escherweg 2 - 26121 Oldenburg - GERMANY
E-Mail: benjamin.poppinga@offis.de
URL: http://www.offis.de/

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