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*** Program Announced - 08/08/2008 ***
We would like to extend an open invitation to the Ubicomp community
to participate in the USE workshop—attendance is not limited to
authors. Registration for Ubicomp'08 is now open.
Without further ado, the program for USE'08 (in no particular order) is as follows:
A Quantitative Evaluation Model of Group User Experience
Zhu Wang, Xingshe Zhou, Haipeng Wang, Hongbo Ni, Ruijuan Wu
Usability Study of Indoor Mobile Navigation System in Commercial Facilities
Yutaka Inoue, Takeshi Ikeda, Kiyoshi Yamamoto, Tomohisa Yamashita, Akio Sashima
Clinical Proof-of-Concept – A Evaluation Method for Pervasive Healthcare Systems
Jakob E. Bardram
Situvis: visualising multivariate context information to evaluate situation specifications
Adrian K. Clear, Ross Shannon, Thomas Holland,
The Challenge of Evaluating Situated Display based Technology Interventions Designed to Foster 'Sense of Community'
Keith Cheverst, Nick Taylor, Mark Rouncefield, Areti Galani and Christian Kray
Simulation Framework in Second Life with Evaluation Functionality for Sensor-based Systems
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendinger
We look forward to seeing you all in Seoul.
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The review process for USE '08 is complete. We'll be posting a an outline of the Program here shortly. We'd like to remind authors of the accepted papers to keep the following recommendations in mind when preparing camera-ready copies:
1. Make every effort to address the reviewers' comments.
2. Make sure the camera ready copy adheres to the formatting guidelines, which are available at the workshop website: http://www.useworkshop.org. We recommend preparing your manuscript using the LaTeX or MS Word style files provided.
3. The copyright block in the bottom left of the front page should read as follows:
Copyright is held by the authors.
<begin italics> UbiComp '08 Workshop W2 -- Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE '08) <end italics>
September 21st, 2008
<begin bold>This position paper is not an official publication of UbiComp '08. <end bold>
4. Please send the camera ready copy (BOTH source and pdf) by email to Graeme Stevenson (graeme.stevenson@ucd.ie) on or before Tuesday, 12th August.
We are looking forward to meeting you at USE '08 and to your contribution to an insightful workshop! Further details about the workshop will be sent out in the coming weeks. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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*** Important Notice - 03/07/2008 ***
We wish to apologise to our site visitors for the intermittent downtime of our website over the past week and a half. We have had problems with our web server, and have since hosted this site elsewhere. There should be no more problems.
Due to these problems, we have not received any submissions since Thursday 26th June. If you have submitted a paper to the workshop and have not received a reply acknowledging your submission, please re-submit your paper to us.
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Welcome to to the website for the 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous
Systems Evaluation (USE '08), to be held in conjunction with UbiComp 2008 in
Seoul, South Korea.
Following on from last year's workshop in Innsbruck, USE '08 aims to bring
together practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss best
practice and challenges in the evaluation of ubiquitous systems. Recognised
evaluation strategies are essential in order that the contribution of new
techniques can be quantified objectively. Experience has shown that evaluating
ubiquitous systems is extremely difficult; approaches tend to be subjective,
piecemeal or both. Individual approaches to evaluation risk being incomplete
and comparisons between systems can be difficult.
Several interesting questions and discussion points arose as a result of
last year's workshop:
- We have a pressing need for realistic, interesting, non-trivial
demonstrator scenarios
- How do we overcome difficulties in developing repeatable experiments and
user studies that rely on real-world context?
- Is it possible to categorise the features of UbiComp systems? Can we match
a set of evaluation techniques to each feature?
- How can we evaluate systems that adapt to their users (e.g., by learning
their preferences)
- How might we address the impact on privacy when we release datasets?
- How can we evaluate user response to technology they are not supposed to be
aware of? (i.e., the disappearing computer)
- Is it possible to define a suite of techniques and guidelines for their
application to form a general framework for the evaluation of UbiComp systems?
- How can we make techniques available and accessible for others to use in
evaluation of their research?
USE '08 will consist of presentations of peer-reviewed papers that will be
selected based on their technical merit and potential to stimulate discussion.
Presentations will be followed by structured discussion on the merits of proposed
techniques and their appropriateness for inclusion in a UbiComp Systems evaluation
framework. We seek submissions of 4-6 pages in length. A summary of last year's
workshop will be published later this year in IEEE Pervasive Computing. It is the
intention of the workshop organisers to do similar this year.
Please visit the Call for papers section for further information and submission guidelines.
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