Workshop on
                  User-Centric Pervasive Adaptation
                             (UCPA 2009)
                   Berlin, Germany  April 27, 2009
                       Held at  MOBILWARE 2009
                         (www.mobilware.org)


           ****************EXTENDED DEADLINE********************

           Extended paper submission deadline: February 27, 2009

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Workshop Website: http://ucpa2009.pst.ifi.lmu.de


=Call for Papers=

We are currently standing on the brink of a new era of computing 
systems: Moving on from desktop computers, computing intelligence will 
be woven into the "fabric of everyday life", seamlessly and 
near-invisibly pervading our environment and delivering services adapted 
to ourselves and our context of use. One of the key aspects of such 
user-centric pervasive-adaptive systems is their ability to sense and 
react to the user's mood and intentions. Different aspects are taken 
into account: emotional state (e.g. annoyance), cognitive engagement 
(e.g. high mental workload), and physical conditions and actions (e.g. 
temperature and movement). The combination of these features together 
with recognizable human behavioural patterns form the personal awareness 
of the system. Additionally, information about the surroundings is 
gathered and used to establish environmental awareness. Considering 
this, the overall goal is to create systems that are able to derive, 
suggest and perform actions to optimize user comfort and performance, 
assisting people in their specific activities and situations (for 
example driving a car or at work). 

In order to find ways of realizing the intended kind of user-centric 
pervasive adaptivity, several issues have to be addressed that require 
research in different disciplines, most prominently psychology, 
interaction design and computer science. To begin with, psychology has 
to provide methods to sense, analyse and influence the 
psycho-physiological state of the system's users. These results could 
then be taken into account to optimize the design of interactions 
between the user and the system. The main concern of computer science is 
to establish a basis that allows autonomous computer systems to 
interpret the acquired sensor data and make reasonable decisions about 
which adaptation steps to conduct. Besides this, the complexity of 
pervasive adaptivity calls for novel software engineering approaches and 
architectures that are able to support the development process by 
addressing the special dynamic properties of the aspired systems. The 
goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from different 
fields of expertise, lead to a better understanding between them, and to 
promote interaction in this new and interdisciplinary area. All in all, 
we want to create an opportunity for the participants to exchange about 
a wide range of topics related to pervasive adaptation and "awareness of 
the user", covering theoretical aspects as well as practical methods, 
concrete applications, system architectures or use cases. 

Examples of topics include, but are not limited to:

- User-centric adaptive software
- Architecture and infrastructure of pervasive adaptive systems
- Middleware for pervasive adaptive systems
- Pervasive applications that focus on the physical, emotional and 
  cognitive experience
- Methods to sense, analyze and influence the psycho-physiological 
  state of the user
- Algorithms for data processing, learning and reasoning
- Design of user interfaces for pervasive adaptive applications
- User centric adaptivity in mobile systems and applications
- Formal notations and methods for modelling adaptation


=Workshop Format=

The workshop will consist both of a short presentation and a discussion 
part. It will have two or three sessions, each session including five to 
six papers. For each paper in a particular session, the presenting 
author will have a maximum of five minutes to summarise the main points. 
After these short pitches, there will be half an hour when all authors 
of the current session will be given a different part of the room to 
present their work using a poster or a laptop demonstration, and discuss 
with the audience. The idea is to maximise interaction between the 
participants. One session is scheduled to be 90 minutes in length. The 
total workshop duration will be half a day. 


=Important Dates=

Submission Deadline (extended!): February 27, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: March 6, 2009
Deadline for Camera Ready Copy: March 20, 2009
Workshop Date: April 27, 2009


=Workshop Organisers=

Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany
Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich, Germany

=Programme Committee=

Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Andreas Schroeder, LMU Munich, Germany
Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany
Mladen Stanojevic, IMP, Serbia 
Martin Wirsing, LMU Munich, Germany
Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy


=Paper Submissions Details=

All submitted papers should be at most 6 pages in length and prepared 
using the 1-column LNICST format. Papers will be reviewed by at least
three members of the workshop Programme Committee. All accepted papers
will be published as part of the MOBILWARE 2009 conference proceedings
(ICST Lecture Notes). At least one author of an accepted paper has to
register for the workshop. Paper submission and registration for the
workshop will be handled electronically via the MOBILWARE website 
(see https://mobilware.org/submission.shtml).


Workshop Website: http://ucpa2009.pst.ifi.lmu.de