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CCC Sponsors Computational Sustainability Award at CHI 2013

May 2nd, 2013

Pictured from left to right: Tom Erickson, 2013 CCC Sustainability award winner and CHI 2013 Sustainability Community co-chairs, Samuel Mann and Lisa Nathan.

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsored a sustainability award at CHI 2013, ACM’s premiere conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The conference was held in Paris, France April 27-May 2, at the Palais de Congrès de Paris. The best sustainability paper award promotes work at the intersection of computing and sustainability, on principles and applications that address environmental, economic, and societal needs in support of a more sustainable future. This year’s winning paper was:

The Dubuque Electricity Portal: Evaluation of a City-Scale Residential Electricity Consumption Feedback System, authored by Tom Erickson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA), M. Li, Y. Kim, A. Deshpande, S. Sahu, T. Chao, P. Sukaviriya, and M. Naphade.

CCC will provide travel awards to authors of the awarded paper.  This is the second year that the CCC has sponsored the sustainability award at the CHI conference. The award enables the CHI Sustainability Community to recognize the critical contributions of human computer interaction research relating to sustainability. The community is not confined to issues of environmental sustainability, but also issues related to “the implications of our design and use of interactive technologies within and beyond HCI for climate change mitigation and adaptation, health, regional concerns especially coastal regions, food, ecosystems, water, as well as economic systems, reducing consumption, re-constructing business practices, and more.” (http://chi2013.acm.org/communities/sustainability/).

The winning paper was chosen from a selection of CHI 2013 Best Papers and Honorable Mentions that have significant links to sustainability concerns. The list of best papers and honorable mentions that were considered for the award are provided below to demonstrate the breadth of innovative, sustainability-oriented work that was showcased at this year’s conference. After the conference the papers will be available through ACM’s Digital Library.

PAPERS CONSIDERED FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY AWARD

(FROM CHI’S SELECTION OF BEST PAPERS AND HONORABLE MENTIONS)

Mind the Theoretical Gap: Interpreting, Using, and Developing Behavioral Theory in HCI Research

E. Hekler (Arizona State Univ., USA), P. Klasnja, J. Froehlich, M. Buman

 

At Home with Agents: Exploring Attitudes Towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures

T. Rodden (The Univ. of Nottingham, UK), J. Fischer, N. Pantidi, K. Bachour, S. Moran

 

Indoor Weather Stations: Investigating a Ludic Approach to Environmental HCI Through Batch Prototyping

W. Gaver (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London, UK), J. Bowers, K. Boehner, A. Boucher, D. Cameron, M. Hauenstein, N. Jarvis, S. Pennington

 

A Conversation Between Trees: What Data Feels Like In The Forest

R. Jacobs (The Univ. of Nottingham, UK), S. Benford, M. Selby, M. Golembewski, D. Price, G. Giannachi

 

Looking Past Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Using Futures Studies Methods to Extend the Research Horizon

J. Mankoff (Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA), H. Faste, J. Rode

 

Using Crowdsourcing to Support Pro-Environmental Community Activism

E. Massung (Univ. of Bristol, UK), D. Coyle, K. Cater, M. Jay, C. Preist

For more information, see the Best of CHI 2013 awards.

We encourage to you apply for a Challenges & Visions session at your respective computing research conference! For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a CV session — visit http://cra.org/ccc/vct.php

(Contributed by Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia)

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Wireless Health 2013 Calling for Papers, Abstracts and Research Demonstrations

April 18th, 2013

Screen Shot 2013-04-18 at 10.53.16 AMThe Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance is hosting it’s fourth annual Wireless Health conference on November 1-3, 2013 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The mission of the conference is to “provide the highest-quality academic health and industrial research forum to develop an international community that will accelerate the development and adoption of new technologies for improving health and lowering costs.” To support it’s mission, the organizers have issued a Call for Papers, Abstracts and Research demonstrations.

From the call for submissions:

To Submit a Paper for Review:

The committee solicits original contributions in Health Technology, Engineering and Computer Science disciplines with applications in clinical practice and innovative applications of wireless health principles and technologies in clinical and health settings.

 

  • Paper submissions should be 4 – 8 pages in length
  • Papers must be submitted in the ACM conference format
  • All submissions should include author information (names and affiliations) in the document for a single-blind review process (i.e.authors will be known, but reviewers will be anonymous)
  • Full length papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (ACM DL)
  • Papers can be submitted for either oral or poster presentation (or both). Posters will be presented in a speed-talk format in a dedicated session.
  • The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution for publication in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC).  For further information on the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), please visit here.

To Submit an Abstract for Review:

The committee invites Biomedicine, Behavioral and Social Sciences researchers to submit brief abstracts for consideration. Abstracts may highlight pilot studies, clinical trials, and clinical instrument validation studies using wireless and mobile health technologies.  Contributions highlighting unmet clinical needs that can potentially benefit from wireless health technologies are also invited.

 

  • Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words.
  • Abstracts should follow the WH2013 Abstract Submission Format
  • The authors of the accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a paper for review to the Journal of Translational Behavioral Medicine
  • Abstracts will not be included in the conference proceedings and the ACM Digital Library
  • Posters will be presented in a speed-talk format in a dedicated session

 To Submit a Demonstration for Review:

The committee also invites abstracts from academic and industry researchers describing technical demonstrations that represent advances in fundamental components and/or complete systems serving individuals/communities. Technical demonstrations presented at the conference will include both short oral presentations and a poster session.

 

  • Demonstrations submissions should be no longer than 2 pages
  • Demonstrations must be submitted in the ACM conference format
  • All submissions should include author information (names and affiliations) in the document for a single-blind review process (i.e.authors will be known, but reviewers will be anonymous)
  • Demonstrations will be included in the conference proceedings and will be archived in the ACM Digital Library (ACM DL)
  • Demonstrations will be presented in a speed-talk format in a dedicated session and given space in the demonstration hall

The submission deadline is Friday, April 26, 2013. ALL submissions must be registered and submitted electronically through EDAS at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14795. Please contact Julien Penders at julien.penders@imec-nl.nl or Donna Spruijt-Metz at dmetz@usc.edu with any questions.

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CCC Sponsoring Challenges and Visions Track at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2013 Conference

April 15th, 2013

Screen Shot 2013-04-15 at 11.28.00 AMThe CCC is sponsoring another in its series of “Challenges and Visions” tracks as a Robotics Challenges and Vision workshop at the 9th Robotics: Science and Systems conference June 24 – 28, 2013, Technische Universität Berlin.

The Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference has been a venue for presentation of breakthrough results in robotics since its inception in 2005. RSS is the most selective annual venue for timely publication of revolutionary theories and techniques in robotics, achieved through development of novel algorithms and systems. Proceedings of RSS are citable and published both by the MIT press and online. The RSS community comprises most of the top leaders in the field, from both academia and industry. RSS solicits research contributions from all areas of robotics, including but not limited to:

  • Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control
  • Planning and Algorithms
  • Manipulation
  • Human-Robot Interaction and Human Centered Systems
  • Field Robotics
  • Distributed Systems
  • Medical Robotics
  • Biological Robotics
  • Mechanisms
  • Robot Perception
  • Mobile Systems and Mobility
  • Estimation and Learning for Robotic Systems

As a special CCC Challenges and Visions track, the main purpose of the Robotics Challenges and Vision workshop is promoting dialogue and brainstorming in the robotics community to identify new research directions and underdeveloped areas. The solicited papers are expected to present challenges in the field and potential future directions. To archive these discussions, the accepted papers will be published, and a summary of the discussed topics will be disseminated either in the form of a review article or a website. The CCC will sponsor three Best Paper Awards for the workshop, which will be selected out of the accepted papers based on evaluations by the program committee and potentially votes from the audience.

For more information, please visit the workshop website.

We encourage you to apply for a Challenges and Visions track at your conference!  Requests need only include a brief description of the conference and a proposed list of program committee members for the track.

For more information — including guidelines for conference program committees, recommendations for selecting winners, and logistics for issuing CCC-sponsored travel awards to the winners, as well as a sample call for papers for a Challenges and Visions track — visit http://cra.org/ccc/vct.php.

 

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