The 4th International Workshop

on

Ubiquitous Computing

 

iUBICOM 2009

 

Monday 6th July 2009

 

University of Birmingham

 

Call for Participation

 

There is still time to register for iUBICOM 2009 which is a workshop of the BNCOD (British National Conference on Databases) 2009 event.  Please see the exciting programme below which includes a session on consortia formation and funding opportunities.    To register please follow the instructions on 

 

http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/bncod09/workshops/iUBICOM09/index.php.

 

You need to book using the BNCOD item in the on-line shop.  When inside the item you can select the workshop you require. 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

Time

Event

08.30

Registration

09.20

Open and Welcome

 

Session 1 :

09.30

User-mediated activity-aware collaboration in the home

Fernando Martinez, Chris Greenhalgh (UK)

09.55

Situated Design of Ubiquitous Computing

John Halloran (UK)

10.20

Users' quest for an optimized representation of a multi-device space

Dzmitry Aliakseyeu, Andrés Lucero, Jean-Bernard Martens (Netherlands, Finland)

10:45

Personalised information retrieval for ubiquitous applications

Adam Grzywaczewski (UK)

11.00

Coffee

11.30

Session 2 : Invited talk

 

The Internet of Things: The Death of Traditional Database? (Combined session with DAIT workshop)

Keith G Jeffery, Science and Technology Facilities Council, (UK)

12.30

Lunch

 

Session 3

13.30

A Development Environment for Ubiquitous Multi-Device Applications

Richard Cooper, Paul Dailly, XQ Wu and Athanasios Pavlopoulos  (UK)

13.55

Context-Aware Identity Management in Pervasive Ad-hoc Environments

Abdullahi Arabo, Qi Shi, and Madjid Merabti (UK)

14.20

Ubiquitous computing and Data Integration in Healthcare (short paper)

Preetpal Singh and Ratvinder Grewal (Canada)

14:40

Development of a GPS tracking system incorporated with smart home environment

Rahat Iqbal, Anne James, Witold Poreda (UK)

15.00

Coffee

 

Session 4: Ideas for  Future Work, Funding and Consortia Formation

15.20

Research Opportunities (Combined session with DAIT workshop)

Joshua Cooper, Hildebrand,( UK)

15.45

17.00

General Discussion and Close

Close

 

 

 

The organisers reserve the right to change the programme if necessary.

 

 

There will be an optional social event, a canal cruise  with  buffet,   18.30-20.30  on 6th July.  Please contact Anne James  (a.james@coventry.ac.uk  ) if you are interested in this.