Workshop @ UbiComp 2008:
Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing (UIIVC 2008)

Date & Location

Ubiquitous Inter- and Intra-Vehicular Computing (UIIVC 2008) is a one-day workshop which takes place in Seoul (Korea) on Sunday, Sept. 21, as part of the Conference UbiComp 2008 (which is from Sept. 21- 24, 2008).

Publication

The printed workshop proceedings will be published in the adjunct proceedings of the conference.

Overview

Modern vehicles have a high number of intra-vehicle com-munication systems and busses connecting hundreds of sensors, delivering information at high data rates. As such, the sensor density in modern cars an interesting ubiquitous computing environment. Besides mobile phones, modern vehicles are the most ubiquitous and most widely deployed mobile sensor node systems. The idea of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication is to interconnect these sensor-equipped vehicles to collaboratively share a subset of this information. This enables novel types of applications in the areas such as safety, traffic efficiency and comfort. V2x communication poses many research challenges on applications, communication technologies such as IEEE 802.11p WLAN and cellular networks, networked sensing systems, privacy, security and other research fields relevant to ubiquitous computing. Workshop topics will address research from all these domains.

Topics of interest

This workshop seeks submissions including but not limited to the following core areas of ubiquitous computing:

• networked sensing systems integrated in vehicles, infra-structure or used by other traffic participants (pedestrians, cyclists, ...
• multi-modal human-machine interaction in vehicular en-vironments; combinations of vehicle-integrated and mo-bile user interfaces
• machine-machine interaction and information fusion for (seamless) integration of mobile devices into vehicular environments
• mobile vehicular services and service management
• new concepts for driving interfaces, driver assistance systems and driving assistance systems
• methods and tools for automotive user interfaces and application research their evaluation
• novel multimedia interfaces and in-car entertainment
• input and output technologies and systems while driving (text, speech, touch, ...)
• user interfaces for on-the-road information exchange, navigation and inter-vehicle communication
• detection, estimation and modeling of user intentions, vehicle context and traffic situation
• application frameworks, toolkits or models for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infra-structure (V2I) communication
• applications, services, user interfaces and toolkits for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle-to-infra-structure (V2I) communication