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Ubiquitous Commerce A Ubicomp 2003 Workshop October 12, 2003 Seattle, WA, USA |
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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.
At this vertical axis we have:
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:
George Roussos Birkbeck, University of London |
Anatole Gershman Accenture Technology Labs anatole.v.gershman@accenture.com |
Panos Kourouthanassis Athens Univ. of Economics and Business |
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.
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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