Call for proposals for research groups

Call for proposals for research groups [DL: 29.08.2008]

PeC Laboratory annonces a Call for Proposals to gather new innovative ideas for high quality, high impact research projects. We are looking for proposals from the following areas:

Context aware services and applications

The context awareness can provide significant usage improvements for applications and provide basis for totally new type of services. The derivation of users current context, knowledge of the contextual history and capability to predict near future context open up new possibilities - as individual enablers and when combined with internet services. The classical example of using context in a mobile device is the switching the operating mode automatically according to detected user's context. But other services and applications going much beyond that can be foreseen. We are willing to hear your ideas. Some samples of research challenges are e.g.:

• Context calculation usign a mobile platform
• Architecture for context calculations
• Context prediction
• Enablers for context data creation (like new sensors)

Social networks linked to location and context

The contextual information can have interesting applications in social networks. One can create groups based on context information, feed current context information to Internet etc. The research challenges related to this topic are e.g.:

• Creation of (ad-hoc) social networks based on context information
• Calculating the relevant links in complex network based on context information
• Creating scalable services
• Context information relevant to the social networking
• User perceptions to context based social networks

Usability and human aspects, pervasive communication interfaces

User understanding and user interface design are critical factors for successful introduction of new pervasive communication systems, applications, and services. It is important to understand how complex technical functionality can be presented to the user(s) in an easy and delightful manner. The research challenges in this area are e.g.:

• Usability of pervasive applications and services
• Utilization of context information in pervasive interfaces
• Pervasive and ambient intelligence, and learning technologies
• Multi-modal interaction in pervasive interfaces
• Technology enablers for pervasive communication interfaces
• User interface innovations and novel UI concepts

Networking and context awareness

The context information can be exchanged locally and the context of my device can be compared with the other devices nearby. In addition, the context information can be made more accurate by monitoring the external sensors possibly available in the vicinity. The research challenges are:

• Finding devices and sensors providing input for context calculation
• Connecting devices and sensor nodes efficiently (e.g. wrt. power consumption)
• Deciding what data is relevant locally, what globally.
• Filtering and storing the relevant data, predicting what data is relevant
• Context enablers like new type of sensors

Security, trust, and privacy aspects

How to apply security, privacy, and trust in all above mentioned cases

You can find the CfP related instructions (e.g. how to leave your proposal) from the presentations below:

Call for proposal instructions and template