International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing HUC 99

Ubicomp - International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing, Ubicomp 2002 - International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing, Göteborg, September 29th - October 2nd , 2002 Next conference in the series formerly HUC. Ubicomp 2001 - International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing, Atlanta, October, 2001 Next conference in the series formerly HUC. The Second International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (huc2k) Bristol, 25-27 September, 2000 International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC 99)
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WORKSHOPS Wednesday, September 29	Workshops provide one-day forum for participants to exchange experience, explore research issues and undertake collaborative work on topics of special interest. For participation in a workshop, see the descriptions for each workshop below, and follow links to the workshop sites. The Future of Fun II: Handheld & Ubiquitous Fun Handheld Computing in the Field Communicating Appliances: The Enabling Technologies
THE FUTURE OF FUN II: HANDHELD & UBIQUITOUS FUN Organizer: Lars Erik Holmquist PLAY: Applied research on art and technology, Viktoria Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden	Welcome to the future! We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. But how come that so many visions of the future make it seem so serious and grim, be these visions created by computer scientists, industrial designers, architects, science fiction authors or filmmakers? Are we all going to spend the future eating suspicious-looking sushi in the rain, served from Bladerunner-style street-stands? Will we be beamed back and forth, endlessly pursuing important missions dressed in shiny Star Trek-garb? Or will we leave the physical world altogether, bathing in the cold virtual city-lights of an alternate reality? The arrangers of this workshop would rather hope that this is only part of the picture. For more information see the workshop page at Viktoria Research Institute.
HANDHELD COMPUTING IN THE FIELD Organizers: Nick Ryan University of Kent, U.K. David Morse The Open University, U.K.	The workshop aims to bring together people with an interest in technology-based support for fieldwork, including practising fieldworkers in disciplines such as ecology, environmental science, and archaeology, and computer scientists and engineers interested in the particular challenges of the fieldwork environment. The workshop will include a mixture of invited papers, contributed papers, posters and demonstrations. Topics will include, but will not be limited to: Current trends in hand-held data collection and information access. Supporting collaborative fieldwork by teams of researchers. Context-Awareness and Environment-Mediated Communication. Communications and ad hoc networking in the field. New technologies for capturing and monitoring environmental and contextual information. For more information, visit the workshop page .
COMMUNICATING APPLIANCES: THE ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES Organizers: Ed McDonnell HP Labs, Bristol, U.K. Huw Oliver Internet Research Institute, HP Labs, Bristol, U.K.	Previous to this workshop, the first two days of the symposium will have explored a wide variety of innovative applications. Much of the richness of these applications comes from the interaction of personal networks of appliances with smart spaces in homes and offices and with wider area wireless Internet access. A prolific generation of ubiquitous communicating appliances will be created by networking using re-purposed telephone cabling (HPNA), extended FireWire (IEEE 1394b), short-range wireless (Bluetooth, Home RF, HIPERLAN), wide area cellular (GPRS, EDGE, UMTS) and many others. In this workshop we want to look at the current and future enabling infrastructures for these applications, and the consequences of these developments for applications. The workshop will be organised as two sessions: a morning session of tutorial presentations on future wired and wireless networking technologies and an afternoon paper presentation session. We are seeking papers for the afternoon session which address issues such as: future and current applications enabled by emerging networking technologies and the consequences for the application architectures in the areas of security, reliability, quality, synchronization, mobility, real-time performance etc. Please submit a one-page abstract for consideration to either: Ed McDonnell (emcd@hplb.hpl.hp.com) or Huw Oliver (heo@hplb.hpl.hp.com). Papers of a speculative nature and those describing work-in-progress are also welcome. Papers accepted for presentation will be expected to be of approximately 25 minutes duration. For more information visit the workshop page: http://www-iri.hpl.hp.com/huc-workshop.htm.