PURBA 2017 - 6th Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA 2017)

Over the past decade, the development of digital networks and operations has produced an unprecedented wealth of information. Handheld electronics, location devices, telecommunications networks, and a wide assortment of tags and sensors are constantly producing a rich stream of data reflecting various aspects of urban life. For urban planners and designers, these accumulations of digital traces are valuable sources of data in capturing the pulse of the city in an astonishing degree of temporal and spatial detail. Yet this condition of the hybrid city – which operates simultaneously in the digital and physical realms – also poses difficult questions about privacy, scale, and design, among many others. These questions must be addressed as we move toward achieving an augmented, fine-grained understanding of how the city functions – socially, economically and yes, even psychologically.
* Topics *
This workshop is the sixth in this series building upon the successful previous PURBA workshops. It aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and explore the research challenges and opportunities in applying the pervasive computing paradigm to urban spaces.
We are seeking multi- disciplinary contributions that reveal interesting aspects about urban life and exploit the digital traces to create novel urban applications that benefit citizens, urban planners, and policy makers. The PURBA 2017 workshop fosters discussions covering topics such as (but not limited to):
• Pervasive computing applications for urban planning and design
• Mining of data collected from urban networks e.g. transportation, energy
• Urban mobility and geo-localization
• Multi-source urban information integration
• Real-time urban information processing
• City-related knowledge infrastructure and computational models
• Case studies and applications of mixed urban sensing and mining
• Analysis of social networks in urban space
• Middleware for mobile urban computing
• Context-aware systems for urban space
• Smart cities
• Intelligent transportation system
• Urban application demos and visualizations
• Wireless sensor networks, mobile devices, and social network sensing
• Security, privacy, reputation, and trust issues in urban computing
• Impact of pervasive technologies in urban space e.g. social, economical, and psychological.
* Important Dates
Paper submission: 2 June 2016
Paper notification: 30 June 2016
Camera-ready: 7 July 2016
Workshop: 11 or 12 September 2016
* Submissions *
We welcome regular (up to 9 pages) and short (up to 5 pages) paper contributions submitted as a PDF file. The workshop accepts manuscripts in standard SIGCHI Extended Abstracts Format. The accepted papers will be published in the UbiComp 2017 adjunct proceedings, which will be included in the ACM Digital Library and indexed by SCOPUS. Visionary and position papers are encouraged. All contributions must not have been previously published or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation by the Program Committee. All accepted submissions must be presented during the workshop.
Please submit via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=purba2017
* Organizing Committee *
Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Teerayut Horanont, Thammasat University, Thailand
Sourav Bhattacharya, Bell Labs, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Yoshihide Sekimoto, University of Tokyo, Japan