Ubicomp 2006

Image source: Ubicomp 2006 website

Ubicomp 2006, the Eighth International Conference of Ubiquitous Computing, will be held in Orange County, California, September 17-21, 2006, hosted by the University of California, Irvine. Ubicomp is the premier international forum for research in ubiquitous computing, bringing together designers, computer scientists, social scientists, and artists, to discuss recent developments and future advance.


Satoru Hashimoto and Yasuto Nakanishi from Keio University will present the demo, SpaceTracer: Sharing Space by Combining Images from Network Cameras, a system that enables to share the contexts from distant places by combining images for 30 minutes fetched from network cameras into an alpha-blended image.

Also several Videos will be present at UbiComp conference series.

The program privacy issues

Tuesday, 2:00pm: Capture and Privacy

Scribe4Me:
Evaluating a Mobile Sound Transcription Tool for the Deaf Tara Matthews (University of California, Berkeley, US); Scott Carter (University of California, Berkeley, US); Carol Pai (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Janette Fong (Carnegie Mellon University, US); Jennifer Mankoff (Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, US)

SenseCam:
a Retrospective Memory AidSteve Hodges (Microsoft Research, UK); Lyndsay Williams (Microsoft Research, UK); Emma Berry (Microsoft Research, UK); Shahram Izadi (Microsoft Research, UK); James Srinivasan (Microsoft Research, UK); Alex Butler (Microsoft Research, UK); Gavin Smyth (Microsoft Research, UK), Narinder Kapur (Addenbrookes Hospital, UK); Ken Wood (Microsoft Research, UK)

Development of a A Privacy Addendum for Open Source Licenses:
Value Sensitive Design in IndustryBatya Friedman (University of Washington, US); Ian Smith (Intel Research Seattle, US); Peter Kahn, Jr. (University of Washington, US); Sunny Consolvo (Intel Research Seattle, US); Jaina Selawski (Intel Corp, US)


LINKS

Ubicom 2007 (Call for proposals)

Ubicomp 2005: Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Tokyo, Japan

Ubicomp 2004: Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, England

UbiComp 2003: Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle, Washington, USA

UbiComp 2002: Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Göteberg, Sweden

UbiComp 2001: Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

HUC2k: Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Bristol, United Kingdom

HUC 99: First International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, Karlsruhe, German