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abstract: We are already thinking of Ubicomp 2008. We hope to receive proposals for hosting and organizing Ubicomp 2008 from active members of the Ubicomp community. We are dedicated to being an international conference series. As 2006 was in America and 2007 will be in Europe we hope 2008 will be in Asia, Australia, or New Zealand. The conference is planed for autumn 2008. In recent years we have tried to avoid time conflicts (with regard to the conference and submission deadlines) with the following international conferences: INTERACT, Wearables Conference (ISWC), and MobileHCI.

abstract: Ambient Intelligence is a concept envisioning information society in the future. In AmI, the attention is focused on four major aspects: User Friendliness, Effectiveness, Distributed support and Interactivity. AmI is based on utmost integration of information and communication technologies to the environment so that from the point of view of the user it is absolutely non-essential with what technologies he/she is interacting; with how many applications how many applications are in contact; how the applications are related and how the applications cooperate. In fact, the user might not be even aware that he/she is interacting with technology or applications at all.

abstract: During the last years a new interdisciplinary field of research is emerging, a field that is bound to change in a radical way the everyday life of people. This research area has been recently named as Ambience Intelligence, although its results were previously known as Smart Rooms or Intelligent Environments. The vision behind this concept is the creation of rooms where humans interact in a natural and non-invasive way with computational services that help them in their everyday tasks, both related with work and with leisure. The foundation of these works may be traced to the concept of ubiquitous computing proposed initially by Weiser in 1991, and involve results from many established areas of research, such as pervasive communications, mutimodal user interfaces, artificial vision and domotics.

abstract: Der IuK-Sektor zählt sowohl in seinen industriellen als auch dienstleistenden Sparten zu den forschungsintensivsten. Deutschland wird in den nächsten Jahren weiter in den IuK-Technologien investieren. In der IuK-Wirtschaft vereinigen sich sowohl technologische Spitzenprodukte mit hohen Anforderungen an das Innovationspotenzial als auch standardisierte Massenprodukte. Im internationalen Wettbewerb geht es hier ausschließlich um Preis- und Kostenvorteile. Dazu brauchen wir gut ausgebildete Ingenieure und müssen das vorhandene IuK-Potential mit anderen Technologiefeldern fusio-nieren.

Die 19. IWKM möchte mit ihrem Themenspektrum einen Beitrag zur Lösung dieser komplexen und disziplinübergreifenden Aufgabenstellung leisten. Während des Zusammentreffens von Praxispartnern, Interessenten und Hochschullehrern inner-halb der Konferenz, sollen die interdisziplinären Forschungsfelder weiter vorange-trieben und neue Impulse erzeugt werden.

Das breitgefächerte Angebot unserer Konferenz umfasst u.a. Industriesteuerung, Kommunikationstechnik, Embedded Systems als auch E-Learning.

abstract: The Third International workshop on Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing (TwUC 2008) will be held on 24-26 November 2008, in Linz, Austria.

The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 10th international conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (iiWAS2008) and The 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2008).