The
rapid proliferation of e-commerce technologies over the past decade has fundamentally
transformed the way we conduct business. This trend is expected to accelerate in the
coming years due to a number of different factors, including the introduction
of new mobile and ubiquitous computing technologies; the wider recognition
by business of the strategic advantages offered by the implementation of ubiquitous
computing and communications infrastructures; the emergence of novel business
models which become possible only through this technology; and last but not
least the development of new economics that can be used to understand and
value ubiquitous commerce activity. There are thus, several areas of contestation
that must interact to produce the conditions for the successful implementation
of ubiquitous commerce. Indeed, recent experience has shown that the concerns
of these (traditionally distinct) areas are intimately interrelated and thus
have to be co-developed in parallel. Moreover, researchers and practitioners
from all fields need to be informed of the concerns and the priorities of
each other so that they can include each others’ requirements in their models.
We propose to hold this workshop to provide a forum for the expression of
this collaborative ethic across disciplines.
To
this end, we have identified both vertical and horizontal axes to describe
the particular areas of interest that we would like to see expressed in this
workshop. At the horizontal axis we have:
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Technologies: Smart home,
radio frequency identification, ubiquitous payments and value transfer,
location and context awareness, agents.
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Legal:
intellectual property protection, access to intellectual property, privacy
protection, ownership of personal data.
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Social:
effects on structures, emergent social practices, effects on roles within
social organization units, identity and anonymity.
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Economics:
pricing of ubiquitous services, valuation of goodwill and information goods,
fair pricing for personal data and privacy.
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Business:
ubiquitous business models, supply chain management and optimization, industrial
design, process design, ubiquitous product development, customer relationship
management.
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Experience
design: appliances, architecture and building, ubiquitous commerce spaces.
At this vertical axis we have:
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Entertainment, infotainment,
retailtainment and gaming.
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Tourism
and experience recording.
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Ubiquitous
assistance through valets and personal agents.
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Pervasive
Retail.
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Remote
shopping with smart home infrastructures.
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Health-
and home-care.
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Industrial
applications.
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Automotive
telematics
Ubiquitous
computing has been recognized as an inherently interdisciplinary research
field, requiring the collaboration between several technical disciplines including
but not restricted to computing, telecommunications, human computer interfaces
and industrial design. In addition to these, ubiquitous commerce requires
contributions from the product development, finance, business process management,
standardization, law, consumer experience design and social science points
of view, to produce useful results. However, researchers with the required
expertise do not have a forum to exchange ideas and concerns and develop common
agendas and roadmaps for research.
This
workshop aims to bring together researchers with diverse background to:
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Share
understandings and experiences as well as recognize each other's concerns.
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Foster
collaboration across research communities.
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Create
effective channels of communication to transfer lessons learnt from one
community to the other.
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Co-develop
a roadmap for future research directions.
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George Roussos
Birkbeck, University of London
g.roussos@bbk.ac.uk
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Anatole Gershman
Accenture Technology Labs
anatole.v.gershman@accenture.com
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Panos Kourouthanassis
Athens Univ. of Economics and Business
pkour@aueb.gr
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| Workshop Format
And Submissions |
This
workshop will last for 1 full day and will be limited to a small number of
participants to enable lively and productive discussions. Participants will
be invited on the basis of position papers, which will be selected based on
their originality, merit and topical relevance. Position papers should raise
an important issue that cuts across both the vertical and horizontal axes
and should make a significant contribution to the debate. Position papers
will appear in the Ubicomp 2003 Adjunct Proceedings. Extended versions of
selected papers will appear, after additional review, in a special issue of
a selected journal (final agreement pending).
Papers should be submitted to in Postscript or PDF
format on or before August 8 to George Roussos (g.roussos@bbk.ac.uk).
It is recommended that authors limit their submissions to no more than 6 pages,
A4 or letter size.
New dates!
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August 15 Workshop
submissions due to workshop organizers
August 29 Notifications
of acceptance
September 12 Early
advance registration deadline
October 12 Workshops
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