Update - 17/09/2007

We would like to thank all the speakers and attendees at USE '07 for contributing to a very informative and enjoyable workshop here in Innsbruck!

A follow up email will be on its way within the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, we would like to bring your attention to the "Evaluating Ubiquitous Systems with Users" workshop, which is accepting short position papers until the 20th of September. For more information, please visit the workshop website.

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Welcome to to the website for the 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation (USE '07), to be held in conjunction with UbiComp 2007 in Innsbruck, Austria.

The complexity and scope of UbiComp research brings together practitioners from a wide range of disciplines. 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. This workshop will bring together UbiComp researchers to discuss their experiences in the evaluation of UbiComp systems with the aim of identifying specific techniques that could form essential elements of an overall evaluation framework.

USE '07 received a number of high quality submissions from which 50% were accepted. Each submission went through a selection process consisting of peer reviews by members of the programme committee. The workshop will include presentations of the selected papers divided into sessions on the themes of users and usability, prototype-based systems development, and components of ubiquitous systems. The schedule for the workshop (subject to change) is as follows:

September 16, 2007
09:00

== Welcome ==

== Session 1: Users and Usability ==

On Developing a Technology Acceptance Model for Pervasive Computing
Kay Connelly

A Platform to Evaluate Usability in Adaptive Context-Aware Services through Adaptive Questioning
Eleanor O’Neill, Kris McGlinn and David Lewis

Taming Context: A Key Challenge in Evaluating the Usability of Ubiquitous Systems
Christian Kray, Patrick Olivier, Amy Weihong Guo, Pushpendra Singh, Hai Nam Ha and Phil Blythe

10:30

== coffee break ==

11:00

== Panel 1: Users and Usability ==

Each presenter has 2-3 mins to identify a particular issue in the USE domain. After this overview, audience and panel discuss.

== Session 2: Prototype-Based Systems Development ==

Seamless Development and Evaluation of Context Adaptive Systems
Michael Fahrmair, Wassiou Sitou and Bernd Spanfelner

12:30

== lunch break ==

13:30

== Session 2 (cont): ==

Experimental Evaluation of Resilience for Ubiquitous Mobile Systems
Marc-Olivier Killijian, Nicolas Riviere and Matthieu Roy

== Session 3: Components of Ubiquitous Systems ==

Visualising Network Communications to Evaluate a Data Dissemination Method for Ubiquitous Systems
Ross Shannon, Graham Williamson, Aaron Quigley and Paddy Nixon

A Proposed Approach to Evaluate the Accuracy of Tag-based Location Systems
Lorcan Coyle, Juan Ye, Emerson Loureiro, Stephen Knox, Simon Dobson and Paddy Nixon

15:00

== coffee break ==

15:30

== Panel 2: Prototype-Based Systems Development & Components of Ubiquitous Systems ==

Each presenter has 2-3 mins to identify a particular issue in the USE domain. After this overview, audience and panel discuss.

== Open discussion, USE topics for 2008 & summaries ==

== Round up and goodbye ==

17:00

== Conference warm-up and workshop reception ==

If there is enough interest we will arrange to go out for dinner in the evening. To be decided on the day!