[CFP]The First International Workshop on Ambient Information Technologies (AMBIT 2012)

Call for Papers
The First International Workshop
on Ambient Information Technologies (AMBIT 2012)
http://www-human.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/ambit2012/

in conjunction with
IEEE Virtual Reality 2012 (IEEE VR 2012)
http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2012/

March 5, 2012
Orange County, CA, USA

* AIM AND SCOPE

 The aim of the First International Workshop on Ambient Information
 Technologies (AMBIT 2012) is to bring together both theoretical and
 practical researchers, who have been working for creating, designing
 and developing innovative devices, middlewares, and applications in
 the field of ambient information technologies.  This workshop gives
 an overview of the current knowledge on ambient information
 technologies and discusses challenges and future directions of this
 field.

 Ambient information technologies integrate several advanced devices
 (e.g., sensors, displays, and actuators), middlewares, and
 applications in VR (Virtual Reality) environments so as to users in
 the environment can directly and indirectly interact with others as
 well as with ambient environment for improving their quality of
 experiences.  Ambient information technologies enable users to
 unconsciously access abundant information sources through several
 types of devices in a timely fashion, depending on users' context,
 which are non-intrusively sensored and tracked by the environment.

 This workshop is expected to make a bridge between ambient
 information technologies and VR technologies, in which there remains
 many open issues in their integration.  The current VR technologies
 is expected to enhance ambient information technologies, and vise
 versa.  For instance, three-dimensional user interfaces based on VR

 technologies should be effective for enhancing users' context
 recognition in ambient information technologies.

* TOPICS OF INTEREST

 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
  areas:
  - Unconscious, intuitive, non-intrusive interfaces
  - Ambient information technologies
  - Ambient intelligence
  - User interface for ambient environment
  - Immersive environment
  - Augmented reality
  - Context awareness
  - Ubiquitous computing/networking for ambient environment
  - Computer-supported communication and interaction
  - Autonomous, distributed, coordinated environment control
  - Realtime environment sensing
  - Networking technologies for ambient environment
  - Applications of ambient information technologies

* PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION

 Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original
unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to
the workshop.  This workshop has two submission categories: oral and
poster.  The length of the oral papers should not exceed 4 pages (IEEE
Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns,
single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and
number each page.  The length of the poster papers should not exceed 2
pages.
 Please visit
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting for detailed paper
formatting instructions. Camera ready papers in PDF format should be
submitted electronically to
ambit2012-submit@hi-mail.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp
 as well as the contacting information and your preferred choice of the
submission category (oral/poster).

 All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to
the authors.  Accepted papers will be published either on-line or by
IEEE Computer Society Press.

 Papers submitted to the oral category might be accepted as poster
papers.  Authors of accepted poster papers are allowed to exhbit their
research demonstrations alongside their posters.

* IMPORTANT DATES

 - Submission Deadline: February 10, 2012
 - Author Notification: February 17, 2012

* WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

 - Yuichi Itoh, Osaka University, Japan
 - Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Osaka University, Japan
 - Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan
 - Hiroyuki Ohsaki, Osaka University, Japan
 - Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan
 - Naoki Wakamiya, Osaka University, Japan
 - Hideyuki Ando, Osaka University, Japan

* CONTACT US

 ambit2012@hi-mail.ise.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Received on Thursday, 2 February 2012 17:41:02 UTC