[ecrea] SAME 2014@NORDCHI - Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media Technologies

                            NordiCHI 2014 Workshop
        Ambient & Smart Media Usability, Interaction, and Media 
Technologies
   6th International Workshop on Semantic Ambient Media Experiences 
(SAME 2014)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE (EXTENDED!!!): 2nd SEPTEMBER 2014

NordiCHI Website: http://nordichi2014.org/

Workshop Website: http://www.tut.fi/emmi/WWW/ameanew/same2014

Submission System: 
http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/

NOTE! The workshop series is indexed by Scopus, and we plan to have a 
special journal issue...

Publications
The Workshop proceedings will be published in the International Series 
on Information Systems & Management in Creative eMedia (indexed by 
Scopus!):
https://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Journal/
The workshop is in-corporated with the AIS SIG-eMedia 
(http://aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia)
and iAMEA ? The International Association for Ambient Media 
(www.ambientmediaassociation.org)

Workshop Chairs
Estefan?a Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium, 
(estefania.serralasensio /at/ kuleuven.be)
Thomas Risse, L3S Research Center, University of Hanover, Germany, 
(risse /at/ L3S.de) Artur Lugmayr, University of Technology (TUT) & lugYmedia 
Inc, Finland, (artur.lugmayr /at/ tut.fi) Bjoern Stockleben, Univ. of Applied 
Sciences Magdeburg, Germany, (bjoern.stockleben /at/ gmail.com) Emilija 
Stojmenova, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, (emilija.stojmenova /at/ ltfe.org)

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1 Motivation and Objectives of the Workshop 
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Ambient (aka pervasive, ubiquitous) media environments offer a plethora 
of context data as well as opportunities for context-related content 
production and consumption. They are the perfect environments for 
providing users with highly contextualized data-driven services and 
data-driven visual and additive content.

To build such ambient media environments, semantics play an essential 
role to deal with a seamless integration of the urban context as well as 
the digital services to be provided.
The application areas range from smart cars, urban informatics, smart 
homes, ambient assisted living, smart media environments, and new 
interaction devices.
We aim to bring together communities involved in different semantic 
applications needed for the creation of ambient media environments, 
like: digital services, media interoperability, open data, user 
interfaces, human-computer interaction, user-centred and interaction 
design, user experience, business modelling, knowledge management, etc.

This will allow identifying common themes between the participant's 
current work and research agenda, and, eventually, leading to the 
discovery of new insights and opportunities.
The primary research goal is to assess new trends for applying semantics 
in digital services for urban contexts and the disciplines involved in 
the creation of these services.
The workshop organizers have extensive experiences in organizing high 
level workshops through the non-profit International Ambient Media 
Association (AMEA) they founded.
The organizers have also established an own free open access series and 
journal within the association, attracted large audiences, and 
disseminated the results through high level journal special issues as 
e.g. Springer-Verlag?s Multimedia Tools & Applications.

2 Topics of the Workshop
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In line with the above, contributions to the workshop should propose 
applications of applications and services in the domain of ubiquitous 
media centering on usability, interaction, and intelligent interaction 
focused on, but not limited to ubiquitous/ambient usability:
- Ambient Intelligent Semantics & Technologies
    o Vocabularies, ontologies & linked data for urban environments
    o Context-data aggregation and context awareness
    o Semantics of usage contexts and sensor data
    o Context adaptive services
    o Service interoperability
    o Implementation and evaluation of urban services
    o Ambient and ubiquitous devices
- Ambient Intelligent Presentation and Interaction
    o Service interoperability
    o Usage of ambient media for increasing application usability
    o Methods and best practices for urban service design
    o Usability in ubiquitous smart systems
    o Ubiquitous human-computer interaction
    o User experience, needs and user studies
    o New smart media based user interfaces
- Emerging Ambient Services & Applications
    o Smart cars, smart cities, smart urban environments
    o Big data, opened data, and linked data applications
    o New smart media based interfaces
    o User-driven content and semantic data generation
    o Smart media environments
    o Unobtrusive mobile applications
    o Non-screen based user interfaces
    o Trust and security

3 Target Audience
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The target audiences to be addressed by this workshop are communities 
involved in the creation of ambient intelligence systems for urban 
environments, digital services, media interoperability, open data, user 
interaction design, business modelling, knowledge management, etc.

As the workshop organizers are from different institutions and research 
perspectives, and from academic and from industry, a high number of 
attendees is expected.
We expect approx. 15-25 attendees to allow a reasonable number of 
working groups (see Section 4 ?Workshop Format?).

4 Workshop Format and Activities
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The workshop is part of a larger set of initiatives and is supported and 
incorporated with:
* iAMEA ? International Association of Ambient Media Ry 
(www.ambientmediaassociation.org)
* the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group 
(SIG) SIG-eMedia
  (aisnet.org/group/SIG-eMedia)
* iAMEA established an open access journal and series (indexed in 
Scopus, and within the
  Finnish publication ranking system)
    o International Journal on Information Systems and Management in 
Creative eMedia
    o International Series on Information Systems and Management in 
Creative eMedia

The workshop will be a full-day workshop grouped into several sessions. 
We allow the submission of papers up to 10 pages which will be 
peer-reviewed by members of the program committee.

After the workshop, it is planned that the results of the group work are 
consolidated in a journal paper to be published in the special issue of 
the Springer journal on ?Multimedia Tools and Applications?. Also the 
authors of the best accepted papers of SAME workshop will be invited to 
submit extended versions of their papers to the special issue. 
Respective arrangements with Springer are on the way for the proposed 
workshop.

5 Submission Guidlines
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Please follow the submission guidlines for NordiCHI papers on: 
http://nordichi2014.org/submissions/papers/.
Workshop papers can be 5-10 pages long, however, they need to fulfill 
the submission guidelines of NordiCHI.
Please submit your papers on: 
http://www.ambientmediaassociation.org/Submissions/2014SAME/


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