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LoCA 2006 was again a big success. Thanks to all who contributed to it in whatever way. Here is some maybe useful wrapup information:
LoCA 2007 is planned to be held at DLR near Munich, Germany, on September 20th-21st (right after UbiComp 2007 in Innsbruck and right before the Oktoberfest in Munich). Submission deadline will be around May 2007. Hope to see you all there!
The list of papers to be presented in talks at this year’s LoCA span low-level sensing of location and context to higher-level issues including privacy, representations, social context, and mapping. Our selective peer review process (24% acceptance rate) resulted in a high quality group of papers that we anticipate will make for an illuminating workshop on the issues of location and context.
The workshop will last for two full days (Wednesday and Thursday). Details are provided within our workshop program (a PDF is also available).
In addition to the highly selective single-track program for technical papers, the program includes a keynote on Google Earth given by Martin 'MC' Brown as well as a social event at the famous genuine Irish Johnnie Fox's on Wednesday evening. Tickets for the social event are included in the registration fee of registered workshop participants. Additional tickets (e.g. for accompanying persons) can be ordered at Ovation.
Note to the authors: This year we will not only award the best paper (which is elected by the LoCA program committee) with a certificate and a gift from one of our sponsors, we will also award the best presentation (which is elected by the LoCA program committee and the participants of the workshop). So try to prepare a really good presentation of your research results (good practice can be obtained for instance from this talk)!
Registration is open, please complete the online registration form.
| Type | Period | Fee |
| Early Bird | until March 17th (closed) | 295 EUR |
| Regular | after March 17th, until May 9th | 350 EUR |
| Onsite | May 10th or May 11th | 400 EUR |
On March 14th the early bird phase has been re-opened until March 17th to compensate some trouble some registrants had around the previous early bird deadline. This new early bird deadline is now aligned with the Pervasive 2006 early bird deadline. Everyone registered so far has been put in the early bird bunch.
The workshop is open for anyone to attend, but the number of attendees is limited due to the room capacities. Registrations will be handled in a first-come first-serve manner (authors of accepted papers will be given priority).
Registration for the co-located Pervasive 2006 is also open. Please use the Pervasive 2006 registration form.
The LoCA 2006 organising committee wishes to thank IBM Dublin for offering to host the workshop at their premises at the IBM Dublin Center for Advanced Studies, Damastown, Mulhuddart. You may want to have a bird's eye view on the venue through Google Earth (let's hope they get some more high res pictures soon), but you also can get some more traditional driving information. There's another Google Earth view covering the whole area. Note that there will be no wireless internet (WLAN/WiFi) available; you may plugin your equipment in one of a few wired network ports.
A wide variety of accomodation options are available at the Dublin city center, but only a few options are available in the closer vicinity of the workshop venue. One of them is the Castle Knock Hotel, where we have a contingent blocked. To get access to this contingent you must book the hotel while registering for the workshop. We organized a shuttle service from/to the Dublin city center (detail are provided at the end of the program).
| Submission deadline: | 8 December 2005 at 23:59 GMT (closed) |
| Notification to authors: | 24 February 2006 (closed) |
| Camera-ready deadline: | 3 March 2006 (closed) |
| Early bird registration deadline: | |
| Workshop date: | 10-11 May 2006 |
All submitted papers will be reviewed by an international program
committee with expertise in the appropriate areas. LoCA 2006 aims to
be highly selective; the committee will favor creating a small but
technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide
an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new
concept, or present concrete, significant and transferable research
which is based on the implementation or evaluation of working systems.
Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at LoCA and
published as LNCS volume 3987
of the Springer series of
Lecture Notes on
Computer Science.
The papers are also available online using
Springerlink.
Submission via EDAS is closed. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by members of the program committee. Please format submissions according to the Springer LNCS style, limited to 18 pages.
The 2006 Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness seeks to present novel and significant research on systems, services, and applications which detect, interpret and make use of location and other types of context information.
It is increasingly important that computers develop a sense of location and context in order to respond appropriately to our needs. Context includes data about the user's activity, goals, abilities, cognitive load, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With this awareness, we can expect computers to proactively deliver information, services, and entertainment when and where we want them in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing this awareness involves research in sensing, inference, data representation, and prototype applications.
Building on the success of LoCA 2005, we seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
(There are also b/w PDF and color PDF versions of the CfP available)