Call for Paper

Objective

Sensor data mining and pattern recognition are important technologies for recognizing user activities or conditions, such as their interests and social networks, and the subsequent adding of annotations to such content. The design of online spaces for creating communities will also influence users�f motivations and incentives. Combining virtual spaces and real-world workshops will accelerate content-creation activities by supporting users as they learn various expression methodologies. Users will be stimulated by the content of others and will create content collaboratively. Cultural programs, which shape user activities from the perspective of a media society, will actively support sustainable content creation.

In this workshop attendees will share their backgrounds and discuss how content-creation activities will be supported by pervasive computing including networked sensing, cyberspace, real-world workshops and cultural programs. Demonstrations as well as support systems deployed for the workshop itself are highly welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Networked Sensing for user activity sensing
• Various sensor types
• Sensor networking and databases
• Sensor data integration, mapping or visualization
• Sensor data mining
• Mining, aggregation and integration of spatial and temporal data
• Stream data processing and mining
• Web mining
• Text mining, language processing, extraction of information from the Web & Support systems for creative activities
• Support for music, image, or video creation
• Location-based services and geographic information systems
• Experiments and case studies of deployment or sensor networks
• Design of cyber or real-world activities
• Cultural programs and workshop programs
• User Study and analysis for better system design
• Cultural probes
• Participatory design
• Ethnography and video-based analysis

Workshop Format

All attendees are required to submit research interests and expectations for this meeting to the workshop�fs cyberspace and interact among participants beforehand. Attendees will be selected by the program committee and organizers. After an ice-breaking introduction, we will have interactive activities with discussions and exercises on specific topics that the participants vote for. The participants will be encouraged to set up their online or onsite systems for the workshop.

Important Dates

• February 15, 2009: Deadline for position paper submission
• March 20, 2009: Notification of accepted/rejected papers
• April 5, 2009: Camera-ready paper submission
• May 11, 2009: PerCAS 2009 Workshop

Submissions

Authors are invited to submit a 1-8 page position paper describing their interest, experience or ongoing research in the field, and including a brief biography. The paper(standard Springer LNCS format) in PDF format that includes contact information of all the authors. Please e-mail your submission to PerCAS@m.aist.go.jp. Papers will be reviewed and selected papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and published as a technical report.

• Springer LNCS format