UbiComp 2006 workshops, part 2

Krumm, John and Anderson, Ken and Lea, Rodger and Blackstock, Michael and Spasojevic, Mirjana and Ito, Mizuko and Van House, Nancy and Koskinen, Ilpo and Kato, Fumitoshi and Back, Maribeth and Inagaki, Masatomi and Horikiri, Kazunori and Lahlou, Saadi and Ballagas, Rafael and Huang, Jeffrey and Lertsithichai, Surapong and Elliott, Ame and Mainwaring, Scott D. and Woodruff, Allison and Sengers, Phoebe and Hansen, Thomas Riisgaard and Bardram, Jakob E. and Korhonen, Ilkka (2007) UbiComp 2006 workshops, part 2. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 6 (2). pp. 109-112. ISSN 1536-1268

Abstract

The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing focused on new middleware, software engineering approaches, widescale interdomain deployment, techniques and benchmarking for evaluation of ubicomp systems. The conference featured two paper sessions and three panel discussions to discuss the possibility of common set of ubicomp abstractions and a platforms to facilitate research. Researchers presented their research covering new applications and services for capturing images and context, augmenting the images and context with sound, and sharing them via the Web or in printed form. Various participants stressed the need of evaluation and benchmarking of ubicomp systems research. The use of furniture and architecture with integrated electronics, and room-based sensor system, was presented. Various features of integrated document and metadata system used for supporting different types of sessions, security, privacy, and efficient document handling, were discussed.