[Air-L] FW: Last Call for Papers: SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience

[Artur R. Lugmayr]

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Call for Papers

SAME 2009 - 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experience 

Salzburg, 18th-21st November 2009 in conjunction with AmI-09

!!! SUBMISSION OF 2-4 PAGE POSITION PAPERS UNTIL THE 19th OCTOBER 2009 !!!

More information on: http://namu.cs.tut.fi/same2009/ and
http://www.ami-09.org/ 

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* Submissions are expected to be 2-4 pages position papers according the
paper format of AmI-09:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 
* Please send your submissions via email to lartur at acm.org 
* More information on the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Ambient
Media Experience held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2008:
http://namu.cs.tut.fi/acmmm2008/same2008/index.html 
* Best contributions will be compiled to a special issue following up the
workshop 
* Check also the Ambient Media Association (AMEA):
www.ambientmediaassociation.org and
http://webhotel2.tut.fi/emmi/forum/node/3 

Description of the Workshop
The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and
music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable media such as TV, the Web,
the radio, or books transmitted the message. No in the age of ubiquitous and
pervasive computing, where information flows through a plethora of
distributed interlinked media   what is the message ambient media will tell
us? What means semantic in this context? Which experiences will it open to
us? What is content in the age of ambient media? Ambient media are embedded
throughout the natural environment of the consumer   in his home, in his
car, in restaurants, and on his mobile device. Predominant sample services
are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based
entertainment services for children, or intelligent homes. The distribution
of the medium throughout the natural environment implies a paradigm change
of how to think about content. Until recently, content was identified as
single entities to information   a video stream, audio stream, TV broadcast.
However, in the age of ambient media, the notion of content extends from the
single entity thinking towards a plethora of sensor networks, smart devices,
personalized services, and media embedded in the natural environment of the
user. The consumer actively participates and co-designs contextual media
experience One example is e.g. location based information. Initiatives as
the smart Web considering location based tagging for web-pages underline
this development. This multidisciplinary workshop aims to address the
challenges:
?     how to select, compose, and generate ambient content?
?    how to present ambient content?
?     how to re-use ambient content and learning experiences?
?     what are the characteristics of ambient media, its content, and
technology?
?     how can collaborative, participatory, or social media service better
supported and extended?
?     and what are ambient media in terms of story-telling, interactive, and
art?

The workshop aims at a series, and at the creation of a think-tank of
creative thinkers coming from technology, art, human-computer interaction,
and social sciences, that are interested in glimpsing the future of semantic
ambient intelligent empowered media technology. We are 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

Topics

The following (and related) topics are within the scope of this workshop and
shall act as examples:
*     Understanding of the semantics of ambient content and methods for
adding intelligence to daily objects
*     Mobile and stationary sensor data collection and interpretation
algorithms and techniques
*     Context awareness and collection and context aware
composition/selection of ambient content
*     Creation and maintenance of meta-information including metadata and
data management
*    Ambient and mobile social networks, user generated content, and
co-creation of content and products
*     Characteristics of ambient media, its content, and technological
platforms
*     Ambient content creation techniques, asset management, and programming
ambient media
*     Algorithms and techniques for sensor data interpretation and semantic
interpretation
*     Applications and services, including ambient games, art and leisure
content in specific contexts
*     Ambient interactive storytelling, narrations, and interactive
advertising
*     Personalization, user models, multimodal interaction, smart user
interfaces, and universal access
*     Experience design, usability, audience research, ethnography, user
studies, and interface design
*    Business models, marketing studies, media economics, and " x" -commerce

The workshop aims at answering the following questions:
*     What is "content" and how can it be presented in the age of
"ubiquitous" and "pervasive" ?
*     How to select, compose and generate ambient content?
*     How to manage and re-use ambient content in specific application
scenarios (e.g. e-learning)?
*     What is interactivity between the single consumers and consumer groups
in the ambient context?
*     How can collaborative or audience participatory content be supported?
*     Which methods for experience design, prototyping, and business models
exist?
*     How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined?
*     How can existing media such as TV, home entertainment, cinema extended
by ambient media?

Important Dates
*     position paper submission: 19th October, 2009
*     notification of acceptance: 22nd October, 2009
*     final papers due: 27th October, 2009 
*     workshop day : 21st November , 2009
*     special issue articles due: December 14th , 2009 

Target Audience

The target audience are researchers and practitioners in the field of
ubiquitous and pervasive computation and its related areas. 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, artistic, 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. 

Workshop Chairs 
*     Artur Lugmayr, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia
Inc., FINLAND
*     Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, GERMANY
*     Bjorn Stockleben, Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB), GERMANY
*     Juha Kaario, NOKIA, FINLAND
*     Kari Laurila, NOKIA, FINLAND