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CFP: Workshop on Context-Awareness at CHI2000

                       CALL FOR PAPERS

                         Workshop on:
  The What, Who, Where, When, Why and How of Context-Awareness
                             at
        CHI 2000, April 3rd 2000, The Hague, Netherlands

Introduction

Context-awareness is widely thought to be an important enabling
technology for developing ubiquitous, handheld and wearable computer
applications. It describes the ability of a computing device or program
to sense, react to, or adapt to the environment in which it is running.
In order to understand better how we can use context and facilitate the
building of context-aware applications, we need to understand more fully

what constitutes a context-aware application and what context is. This
workshop will attempt to address these issues by asking the six "W"
questions of context-awareness: what, who, where, when, and why? These
five questions underpin the sixth meta-question of how? For example:

1. What is context?
2. Whose context is important to whom, or what?
3. Where can an awareness of context be exploited?
4. When is context useful?
5. Why are context-aware applications useful?
6. How do we implement a generic supporting infrastructure for
   context-aware applications?

These questions are illustrative: potential participants are encouraged
to place their own interpretation on the six questions of
context-awareness.

Submission details

Please submit a short position statement giving your viewpoint on these
questions, focusing particularly on one of the questions in your
submission. This focus will be used to allocate selected participants to

small discussion groups that form part of the workshop. Participants
will be selected on the basis of their interest in, and familiarity with

the problem area.

The deadline for submission of extended abstracts and position papers to

the workshop is 28th January 2000, with the workshops being held at
CHI2000 on 3rd April 2000 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Further
information on the workshop and CHI2000 is available on the following
web sites:

Context-awareness: http://mcs.open.ac.uk/drm48/chi2000.htm
CHI2000: http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi2000/

We plan to publish a proceedings of the workshop in the form of
short papers as a special issue of the journal Personal Technologies.
The Personal Technologies web site is at:
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/cpim/PeTe.html

For questions and further information, please contact one of the
workshop
organisers at the addresses below.

David Morse and Steve Armstrong
Computing Department, The Open University, Walton Hall,
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom
Email: D.R.Morse@open.ac.uk; S.Armstrong@open.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1908 858463; +44 (0)1908 654056

Anind K. Dey
Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center,
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30332-0280
Email: anind@cc.gatech.edu