Ubiquitous computing will require a new approach to fitting technology to our lives. The advent of new computing devices, and the seamless connectivity between these devices, thanks to diverse wired and wireless networks, are enabling new opportunities for a user to perform his/her operation all the time and everywhere. These seamlessly connected devices are ranging from mobile handset to wearable computers. Also, it is expected that these devices will become so pervasive that they will be embedded in the surrounding physical environment, and transparent and invisible to a user. Ubiquitous computing has as its goal the enhancing computer use by pushing computational services out of conventional desktop interfaces into physical environments, but effectively making them transparent forms and calm mode of interactivity. Recent advances in electronic and computer technologies have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous computing.
In the near future, the environment of ubiquitous computing will be populated by a large number of computing devices, spread across the network, and often invisible. These devices need to be coordinated for better interactions. Devices, whether carried on by people or embedded into other systems (within the home or at other places), will constitute a global internetworking infrastructure and likely to provide a new level of openness and dynamics. These interactions raise many new issues that related to existing research areas, as well as introduce new research and development challenges, in technical areas, such as wireless, pervasive, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies that realize ubiquitous computing, innovative applications that incorporate these technologies, useful infrastructures that effectively support them, human activities and experiences these technologies, and surveys that help us understand the impact of these technologies.
We are seeking research papers for these interdisciplinary areas. The goal of this journal is to publish the most recent results in the innovative researches and developments in ubiquitous computing. Researchers and engineers working in these areas are expected to take this opportunity to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges, and state of the art solutions addressing various issues in these areas.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
1. Ubiquitous Communication and Networking:
- Ubiquitous wired and wireless networks,
- Ad-hoc networking
- Intelligent sensor network
- Ubiquitous/pervasive platform and middleware
- Automated, adapted and situated service
- Open service architecture
- Intelligent web service
- Intelligence grid platform and service
- Next-generation Internet & IPv6
2. Context-aware and Cognitive Computing:
- Context acquisition and representation
- Context media processing
- Context database
- Context management
- Context framework and middleware
- Context analysis and utilization
- Location-aware application
- Power-aware system
- Resource-aware computation
- Self-aware computers and systems
3. Multimodal Interaction:
- Haptic interfaces and/or interactions
- Evaluating multimodal interactions
- Design principles for multimodal systems
- Cross modal interactions
- Sound interaction
- Auditory and haptic displays
- Multimodal gaming and entertainment
- Collaborative multimodal systems
- Novel systems and interactions using other modalities (e.g. taste, smell)
- Computer Imaging and Graphics
4. Ubiquitous Privacy and Trust:
- Information Security and Cryptography
- Privacy issues in ubiquitous society
- privacy intrusion automatic detection
- privacy protection framework and infrastructure
- Identity and behavior trust
- Trust model and measure
- Risk estimation and trust management
- Security technology for privacy and trust guarantee
Chief Editor
Youn-Hee Han, Korea University of Technology and Education, Korea
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