This is funding to support a doctoral research symposium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad (up to 2 international students), along with 5 high profile faculty and industrial researchers. The event will take place in conjunction with and immediately following the 14th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2012), to be held September 5-8, in Pittsburgh, and which is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. The annual UbiComp conference is the premier international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge research relating to both the technical and applied aspects of ubiquitous computing technologies, systems and applications. This is an interdisciplinary field of research and development that utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds. Thus, the conference brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, distributed and mobile computing, real world modeling, sensors and devices, middleware and systems, programming models and tools, and human-centric validation and experience characterization. More information about the conference may be found at www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2012.
The three goals of the full-day doctoral consortium are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing highly constructive feedback and guidance from senior researchers in a supportive and interactive environment. To these ends, student participants will each make a formal presentation of their work to the group, with ample time allotted for questions and feedback from the faculty panel as well as from the other student participants. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Additional opportunities for more informal discussion and networking will be during the doctoral consortium's lunch and dinner events. Extended abstracts of the students' work (up to 4 pages in length) will be included in the supplemental proceedings which are distributed to all conference attendees.
Broader Impacts: The doctoral colloquium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in the various fields associated with ubiquitous computing, by affording them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Several participants in past UbiComp doctoral consortia have since gone on to high profile research careers. The event organizers have committed to accept no more than one student from any given institution, and they will make a special effort to attract students who are diverse across a number of dimensions (e.g., research interests, gender and ethnicity), so that the participants' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.
This grant supported the Doctoral Colloquium held at Ubicomp 2012, in Pittsburgh, PA in September, 2012. The Doctoral Colloquium is an educational event, in which soon-to-graduate PhD students doing research in ubiquitous computing are given an opportunity to present their doctoral research and receive feedback from experts in the field. The feedback is intended to guide their thesis work and prepare them for their future careers. The students are also given the opportunity to present posters on their work to the entire Ubicomp 2012 set of attendees. The event was very successful, with 10 students selected to present to the 2 co-chairs, and 4 expert panelists. A Privacy-by-Design Approach to Location Sharing Marcello Paolo Scipioni University of Lugano, Switzerland Personalized Lighting Control Based on a Space Model Filip Petrushevski Vienna University of Technology, Austria Using Embodied Allegories to Design Gesture Suites for Human-Data Interaction Francesco Cafaro University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Consent Reconsidered; Reframing consent for ubiquitous computing systems Ewa Luger University of Nottingham, UK Design and Implementation of a Space Model Server for Indoor Location-Based Services Miloš Šipeti? Vienna University of Technology, Austria Activity Recognition Using a Spectral Entropy Signature Jessica Beltrán-Márquez CICESE, MEXICO A Framework to Promote User Engagement in Participatory Sensing Applications Osarieme Omokaro University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA A Flexible Tool for Participating, Authoring, and Managing Citizen Science Campaigns On-The-Go Sunyoung Kim Carnegie Mellon University, USA Integrating Participatory Sensing and Informal Science Education Scott Heggen University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Eye Movements for Pervasive Applications Mélodie Vidal Lancaster University
