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                      Call for Papers

             The First International Workshop on
Contents Creation Activity Support by Networked Sensing (CCASNS)

                       June 16, 2008

               http://www.mediaexprimo.jp/CCASNS/

                  Held in conjunction with
The 5th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems
                  http://www.inss-conf.org
                      Kanazawa, Japan

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Networked sensing will help us to create various kinds of contents 
based on our daily life activities. Network sensing include not only 
real world sensing technologies such as ubiquitous, wearable 
computing or tangible interfaces but also mining technologies from 
cyber space such as Web spaces or social networking services. People 
express themselves or their feeling as forms of contents such as 
texts (ex. diary or poem), images (ex. drawing, computer graphics or 
picture), sounds (ex. clapping, playing musical instruments), videos 
(ex. daily life) or combination of those media with various kinds of 
annotation. 

Networked sensing will enhance and enrich those peoples' contents
creation activities by capturing daily activities with sensors 
embedded in the environment, user interfaces or Web applications. 
Sensor data mining technology and pattern recognition technologies 
are also important for recognizing user activities or situation such 
as their interests, social network and adding annotations to those 
contents. The design of the cyber space for creation community will 
also influence the motivation or incentive to users. By combining 
such cyber space, real world workshops will accelerate the 
activities by supporting users to learn certain expression 
methodologies, to be stimulated by others' contents and to create 
some contents collaboratively. Finally cultural programs which 
design the user activities in a point of media society will actually 
support user creation activities sustainably.

In the workshop, we will share all of the attendees' backgrounds and
discuss on sensing, creation activities, cyber space, real world 
workshops and cultural programs. Demonstrations or deploying 
supporting systems for the workshop itself are highly welcome.

Topics of interest (but not limited to):

    * Networked Sensing for user activity sensing
      - Various sensors
      - Sensor networking and databases
      - Sensor data integration, mapping or visualization
    * Sensor data mining
      - Mining, aggregation and integration of spatial and temporal data
      - Stream data processing and mining
    * Web mining
      - Text mining, language processing, information extraction on the Web
    * Support systems for creative activities
      - Music, image, video creation support
      - Location-based services and geographic information systems
      - Experiences on the deployment and experiments of sensor networks
    * Design of cyber or real world activities
      - Cultural program
      - Workshop program
    * User Study and Anarisis for better system design
      - Cultural Probe
      - Participatory design

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit a 1-8 page position paper describing 
their interest, experience or ongoing research in the field, and 
including a brief biography. The paper(standard Springer LNCS format)
in PDF that include contact information of all the authors. Please mail 
your submission to ccasns[at]mediaexprimo.jp. Papers will be reviewed and 
selected papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be 
published as technical report.

Important dates:
March 31, 2008 submission deadline 
April  7, 2008 acceptance notification 
April 18, 2008 camera-ready submission 
June  16, 2008 workshop day

Workshop organizing committee:

    * Takuichi Nishimura, AIST, Japan
    * Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka, Japan
    * Miwa Fukino, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Japan
    * Yoshiyuki Nakamura, AIST, Japan

Workshop program committee:(we will invite more)
    * Takeshi Sunaga, Tama Art University, Japan
    * Shin Mizukoshi, Tokyo University, Japan
    * Koichi Hori, Tokyo University, Japan
    * Masahiro Hamasaki, AIST, Japan
    * Hironori Tomobe, AIST, Japan
    * Tom Hope, AIST, Japan