Mobile Context‐ Aware Applications for Ubiquitous Computing

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS)

Special Issue: Mobile Context-Aware Applications for Ubiquitous Computing

Submission deadline: January 15, 2010

Mobile devices are changing users' technological habits since the possibilities to be connected to Internet
everywhere are increasing as technology is surrounding all aspects of users' life. A user with a mobile device
can find that its standard functionality can be extended with those applications and services provided by the
environment. Moreover, the user can influence in the environment by means of its interactions. An important
requirement is that the mobile device has to be able to interact with the context. Recent advances in mobile
technology are providing mobile users with the capacity to interact with their surrounding world.

Mobile systems can be deployed in a wide range of physical environments. The context awareness needed in
these scenarios is much more than a question of location or positioning. These systems have to address more
sophisticated techniques to adapt the system's behavior to the context of the user.

This Special Issue is intended to offer an innovative and original vision of the now and future context-aware
applications for ubiquitous computing.


TOPICS COVERED

- Approaches to Applications development
- Mobile and Ubiquitous devices and pervasive environments
- Application design
- Technology and Platform analysis
- Global Pervasive computing issues
- Global Pervasive computing issues
- Trends in HCI techniques
- Usability evaluation
- User Interface Personalization
- Interface designs for pervasive technologies
- Modeling context-aware applications
- Online and Pervasive communities
- Interface design implications
- Human psychology and social aspects of computing and applications
- Education and training
- Social ambient intelligence
- Context-aware adaptation
- Human factors in Ubiquitous computing
- Mobile application contexts
- Process models for context-aware systems
- Collaborative issues in context aware systems


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

All manuscripts should be submitted by email to the guest editors. The papers must be formatted according to
J. UCS guidelines (see http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions to get sample formats in LaTeX and Word).
This special issue seeks both theoretical and practical articles. All articles selected for publication will
be reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area.


IMPORTANT DATES

January 15, 2010 Submission deadline
March 19, 2010 Review First Round
April 16, 2010 Revision of Accepted Papers
June 16, 2010 Final Selection of Papers for the Special Issue
Autumn 2010 Publication


GUEST EDITORS

Maria Dolores Lozano, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
maria.lozano@uclm.es

Jose A. Gallud, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
jose.gallud@uclm.es

Philippe Palanque, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
palanque@irit.fr