UbiComp 2007 Town Hall
Joe McCarthy
Nokia Research Center
Informal Chair,
Informal UbiComp Steering Committee

UbiComp Steering Committee
http://www.ubicomp.org/sc

Known Issues (5 min max)
• UbiComp 2008 CfP
• Number of tracks
• Re-introducing short papers / notes
• ACM Press vs. Springer LNCS
• Electronic and/or paper proceedings
• Conference / workshop proliferation
• To affiliate, or not to affiliate
• Commemorating our 10th meeting (2008)
• UbiComp 2009?
• Dinner: 18:30 (hard stop: 18:00)

http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2008

Number of Tracks
•1

Short Papers / Notes
• 4 ACM 2-column pages vs 10 for full papers
• Tech Notes category in UbiComp 2001-03
• New: Papers + Notes judged by the same PC
and at the same PC meeting
• Interspersed in proceedings with full papers
• Referenced simply as “In Proceedings of
UbiComp 2008”
• Presented as a shorter presentation in main track
• Benefit: increase # of papers in single track

ACM Press vs. Springer
• Springer proceedings have been removed from the
“SCI list” (rating system for Korea, Japan, etc.)
– Using Springer may be detrimental to local submission
and participation
• UbiComp 2008 will be in-cooperation with the ACM
(SIGMOBILE accepted; SIGCHI, SIGWEB,
SIGSOFT pending)
– UbiComps in the past have had in-cooperation status
• Proceedings will be published by ACM Press
• No financial tie to ACM other than for proceedings
production (finances managed by Sungkyunkwan
University) … for 2008

Electronic and/or Paper?
Motivation to move to electronic proceedings:
• Reduce lead time from >6 months to 3 months
• Get research in front of the community more
quickly
• Promote UbiComp’s active, dynamic atmosphere
Potential Changes:
• Electronic version [only] at conference
• Paper version available some weeks later
• Move deadline from March/April to June (?)

Venue Proliferation
• HotMobile
– 9th ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems and Applications
– Napa, CA, 26-27 February 2008
• IEEE PerCom
– 6th Int’l Conf. on Pervasive Computing and Communications
– Hong Kong, 17-18 March 2008
• Pervasive
– 6th Int’l Conf. on Pervasive Computing
– Sydney, 19-22 May 2008
• MobiSys
– 6th ACM/USENIX Conf. on Mobile Sys., Apps. and Services
– Breckenridge, CO, 10-13 June 2008
• Mobiquitous
– 4th Annual Int’l Conf. on Mobile & Ubiquitous Systems
– Philadelphia, PA, 6-10 August 2007
• LoCA
– 3rd Symposium on Location- and Context-Aware Systems
– Munich, 20-21 September 2007
• UbiComp
– 10th Int’l Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing
– Seoul, 21-24 September 2008

Affiliation
• We can reconsider requesting ACM sponsorship in 2009
• “ACM UbiComp” only if sponsored, “UbiComp” otherwise
• SIG(s) must financially underwrite the conference to be
ACM sponsored, separate finances for in-cooperation
– Removal of financial risk currently taken on by local organisation
– 18% fee added to expenses by ACM, covering admin services etc
• Proceedings can be published by the ACM if in-
cooperation with at least one SIG
• There exist other conferences which maintain independent
steering committees and identities, yet are ACM-
sponsored, typically by >1 SIG
– MobileHCI, DUX, CSCW, UIST
– SIGMOBILE exec has indicated support for this approach

UbiComp 2009?
• Proposals
– Conference Chair(s)
– Venue (locale, site)
– Program outline (dates, categories)
– Finances (underwriter, budget)
• Preference: North America
• Send to: joe.mccarthy@nokia.com
– Who will formally forward to the informal UbiComp
steering committee

UbiComp #10 (2008)
• Ways of commemorating this
milestone?

Unknown Issues?

Dinner
• Last bus [to dinner]: 18:30
• Asynchronous feedback:
joe.mccarthy@nokia.com