5th International Workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking
PerCol 2014

March 24 or March 28 (TBD), 2014
Budapest, Hungary
http://percol.inf.tu-dresden.de

Extended paper deadline: November 25th, 2013

in association with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
PerCom 2014


OVERVIEW

The 5th workshop on Pervasive Collaboration and Social Networking (PerCol) addresses the research field at the intersection of pervasive computing and social computing. We are interested in various types of human-to-human interaction with pervasive devices like mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, collaborative apps, location-based games or interaction with public displays. While this is an application-driven research field, we also welcome research on the foundations of Pervasive Social Computing like middleware and development methods, rich presence, pervasive social context, social signal processing and robust and energy-efficient communication in the pervasive scenario.


TOPICS

Topics of interest to the workshop include (but are not limited to):
- Mobile and pervasive social networking
- Activity streams in a pervasive and distributed setting
- Social and pervasive context
- Interaction with public displays and/or smart items
- Novel types of collaboration based on online social networks
- Crowdsourcing
- The role of location and proximity for social applications
- Using sensor information beyond location
- Real-life use case experiences (e.g., pervasive health care)
- Location-based and other pervasive games
- Frameworks, middleware and development methods for pervasive social applications
- Application and service interoperability issues
- Social pervasive content sharing and media distribution
- Pervasive presence and awareness
- Energy efficient and mobile enabled protocols


PAPER SUBMISSION

Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to the workshop topics of pervasive collaboration and social networking. All papers should be in the IEEE format. Papers should be no more than 6 pages in length. All papers will be managed electronically through EDAS. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the PerCom 2014 Workshops proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.


IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due by: November 25th, 2013
Paper selections due by: December 21, 2013
Final papers due to IEEE: January 24, 2014


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Daniel Schuster, TU Dresden, Germany
Thomas Springer, TU Dresden, Germany
Markus Endler, PUC Rio, Brazil


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Rosi, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Antonio Alfredo Loureiro, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dries Harnie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Hyggo Oliveira de Almeida, UF Campina Grande, Brazil
Li Fei, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Licia Capra, UC London, United Kingdom
Luca Foschini, Università di Bologna, Italy
Marco Mamei, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Marek Kowalkiewicz, SAP Research, Australia
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Stephan Lukosch, TU Delft, Netherlands
Ville Antila, VTT Technical Research Centre Oulu, Finland