The general multi-discipline technical areas that the workshop aims to discuss include (but not limited to):
- Making the invisible socially acceptable
- Delegation of individual and collective control
- Social trust in pervasive computing
- Information accuracy/dependability
- Influence through increased availability of information
- Pervasive computing and the public sphere
- The physical, social and legal boundaries of pervasive computing
- Location tracking of people and objects: privacy issues
- Real world implementations
- Socially acceptable design: guidelines
- Models of implications/user responses
The focus of this year’s workshop is on real world implementations of location tracking systems, and the affect of such systems on their users’ attitude and behaviour. Papers discussing the following themes are of particular interest:
- Examples of location aware technology deployed in real environments; including, private/public and indoor/outdoor spaces and the transitions between them.
- Impact of the deployed technological solutions on the users and management of the technology in light of this.
- The impact of the data obtained by the location aware technology, and its use in developing new services and applications, on the users.