SAME 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2013)

6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME 2013)
Defining the Research Agenda for
Information Management and Systems Supporting Sustainable
Communities with Smart Media and Automated Systems
29 June - 02 July 2013
in conjunction with C&T 2013
http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/SAME2013
http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/
SAME 2013
Sustainability and sustainable urban environments are one of the goals of various research agendas and initiatives as e.g. the Regions of Climate Actions (R20). SAME 2013 devotes to the challenge, how information management and systems can support sustainable communities in their regional settings. This workshop focuses on the development of a research agenda around the wider topic of how smart media and automated systems can support the larger context of sustainability for communities with the help of information systems, social web technologies, smart media, and automated systems. The workshop defines a research agenda within this particular context, and especially devotes to the investigation of opened research issues how ubiquitous and pervasive computation can be utilized to create sustainable communities. Energy conservation and saving are one of the key-words SAME 2013 will devote its focus: sustainable cities ? sustainable community ? sustainable energy ? sustainable culture supported by smart information systems, smart media, and fully automated systems. Smart electronics and infrastructure will be one major component in creating a green city environment. Within the scope of this workshop, the goal is to investigate smart technologies, policies, and projects that are devoting to the issue of sustainable communities to create a better living experience.
WORKSHOP CHALLENGES
The workshop aims at answering the following questions for applications, methods, techniques, and installations that follow the no-screen, no-keyboard, and no-mouse device idea:
Community requirements to create sustainability
Regional requirements (e.g. development world) for sustainability
Information systems and management supporting sustainability
Solutions and applications supporting sustainable developments
Community and social aspects creating sustainable values
Smart energy, smart grid, and smart consumer solutions
Smart technologies and information systems supporting sustainable cities
Sustainable presentation of information and learning experience
Projects, policies, and regulations exist to support sustainability with smart media
Which algorithms and methods exist to gain knowledge about energy and sustainability
Collaborative or audience participatory content support sustainability
Training communities to support sustainable smart media
Storytelling and art that supporting sustainability
Community projects creating sustainable smart environments
Strategies for business value for smart sustainable environments
Experience design, prototyping, and business models in the context of sustainable communities
AND SEVERAL TOPICS WHAT THE SAME SERIES IS KNOWN FOR (!!!!)
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and shall act as examples:
Creation of sustainable communities
Ubiquitous computation for sustainable environments
Methods and tools to develop smart sustainable environments
Intelligent environments creating community value
Business models, value-creation, and opportunities
Semantics, and intelligence of ambient media creating sustainability
Social web approaches supporting sustainability
Energy saving through smart electronics
Innovations in finance, technologies, and policies
Lower cost clean energy through smart technologies
Sustainable community projects
Smart media for sustainability
We are also aiming at multidisciplinary, highly future oriented submissions that help to develop the ambient media form for entertainment services, such as:
Case-studies (successful, and especially unsuccessful ones)
Oral presentation of fresh and innovative ideas
Artistic installations and running system prototypes
User-experience studies and evaluations
Technological novelties, evaluations, and solutions
TARGET AUDIENCE
The target audience is researchers and practitioners in the field of ubiquitous and pervasive computation and in the field of sustainability or the creation of smart media for sustainable communities. These include pervasive computation, emotional computation, content creation, ubiquitous computation, human-computer-interaction and usability experts, mobile industry, service creators, etc. Workshop participants shall have previous experience in this or related fields to be able to contribute on a high scientific level. The workshop participants will actively contribute to the development of semantic ambient media, due to a different method of workshop organization. Participants shall ‘participate’ rather than passively contribute. The participants shall discuss and actively elaborate the topic and we plan to kick-off an international web-based informal forum for ambient media, which shall increase the effect of this workshop tremendously.
We strongly welcome multidisciplinary contributions coming from the media technology, community development, sustainability, artistic, business, and human experience side. Case studies (successful and especially unsuccessful), artistic installations, technologies, media studies, and user-experience evaluations are highly welcome, which are affecting the development of ambient media as new form of media. Especially visionary contributions shaping the future of ambient media are strongly welcome.
POSITION PAPERS & FINAL PAPERS
300 word Position papers are due by the 14th April 2013 and should be submitted as word document at: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2013SAME/
In addition, each submission should contain: title, list of authors, abstract, list of 3 potential own research contributions and a brief description, list of 5 research questions including a brief description, and a brief literature review of the 5 most significant publications contributing to the thematic, and a free form body text describing the own view in 300 words
Final submissions are expected to be 5-10 pages papers according the paper format of C&T available at http://www.ct2013.cnss.de/cfp/
Please submit your paper at our paper submission system: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/Submissions/2013SAME/chair/
Each contribution will be double blind reviewed and the top 10 paper will be selected depending on the review results
Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the workshop - we aim at Springer MTAP after reviewing the quality of contributions
The workshop will be held according the method “Design Thinking”, which has been traditionally applied in the SAME series context
Paper solicitation is based on several marketing tools of the Ambient Media Association (AMEA): www.ambientmediaassociation.org, and we expect a submission rate of approx. 15-20 papers, where the top-10 will be selected for being accepted for the workshop
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadlines (deadlines for this workshop are strictly observed!):
14th April 2013: Deadline for Position Paper Submissions
25th May 2013: Notification of Accepted Workshop Position Papers
15th June 2013: Camera Ready Accepted Workshop Papers Due
29th June 2013: Workshop day
SPECIAL ISSUE
For each held workshop, a special issue has been created with Springer-Verlag Multimedia Tools & Applications. The workshop shall gather people from industry and academia to develop the vision of ambient media as new form of smart media.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia Inc., FINLAND
Estefanía Serral Asensio, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, SPAIN
Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied Sciences Magdeburg, GERMANY
Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY
Bogdan Pogorelc, Jozef Stefan Institute & Spica International d.o.o., SLOVENIA
Teaser:
SAME 2013
Event Date:
Saturday, June 29, 2013 to Tuesday, July 2, 2013