CSAR 2015 - 1st Workshop for Context Sensing and Activity Recognition (CSAR)

Today’s mobile computing often requires sensing contextual information, including environmental conditions and human activities, to provide better services. In fact, context sensing and activity recognition play key roles in pervasive and ubiquitous computing, which has attracted much attention from both academia and industry. A wide variety of media, including images, radio frequency, acoustic, ultrasound, magnetic, etc., can be utilized for sensing environment contexts and recognizing subject activities, regardless of whether the subject wears devices.
The scope of Context Sensing and Activity Recognition (CSAR) will extend conventional functions and encompass emerging technologies for future mobile applications. We believe that this topic can be sustainable and perennial for research in mobile computing, as it brings brand new challenges, open problems, and promising opportunities to the mobile computing area.
The CSAR workshop is intended to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners in related fields from academia, industry, and service providers, to share ideas and experiences related to new CSAR technologies and applications. Both visionary and working-in-progress papers are encouraged. To that end, papers are solicited from all related areas involving the context sensing or activity recognition solutions, including, but not limited to the following topics.
Topics of Interest
Innovative context sensing and activity recognition methods
Context sensing and activity recognition using RF signals Battery free context sensing and activity recognition
Location-based context sensing and activity recognition
"Big Data" in context sensing and activity recognition
Performance evaluation and measurement of context sensing and activity recognition
Security and privacy issues in context sensing and activity recognition
Novel applications for context sensing and activity recognition
Other related topics