WrapUp:

We had a very successfull LoCA 2007, and we would like to thank everyone who contributed to this success! Here is some wrap-up information which we would like to point you to:

• LoCA 2007 proceedings are published as LNCS 4718 and are also available online.
• The Best Paper Award (certificate), a model of a GNSS satellite, went to the paper Localizing Tags Using Mobile Infrastructure by Ying Zhang, Kurt Partridge and Jim Reich
• The Best Presentation Award (certificate), a model of the TerraSAR-X satellite, went to Chris Wren for his presentation on Social Motion: Measuring the Hidden Social Life of a Building
• Some pictures taken at the event can be found in the gallery.

Next LoCA will be in Spring 2009 with a submission deadline around September 2008, most likely co-located with another event in Asia.

Program and Registration:

The symposium will last for two days (Thursday and Friday) containing single tracks:
 

55 papers were submitted in total and we have accepted 17 of them, an accept rate of about 30 percent. Each of the 17 papers will be presented by one of the authors in one of the 6 sessions A-F. Sessions A-D and F will have 3 speakers, session E will have two. The final symposium program contains the assignment of presentations to sessions and more detailed information. There will be a social event on Thursday evening, which is for the first time accomplished by a short sunset talk of a famous researcher of our community. During the social event the best scientific paper of LoCA 2007 will be awarded to the winner as determined by the TPC. On Friday morning there will be also some practical demonstrations throughout a typical bavarian breakfast. The official program of LoCA 2007 closes on Friday at lunchtime with awarding the best presentation of LoCA 2007 as determined the whole audience. Thereafter you have the opportunity to join us for a tour through DLR - please see the english tour description or the german tour description for more information.

Please download either the DOC registration form or the PDF registration form, fill in all the required information (please, write clearly) and fax it back to our symposium secretary. Due to a generous sponsorship of Intel Research (thank you!) we could further decrease the registration fee compared to previous years. The early bird registration deadline was July 29^th, 2007.

(Registration for the co-located UbiComp2007 is also open. You may also register for a shuttle bus service from UbiComp to LoCA.)

The symposium 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). We cannot guarantee that there will be free seats which we can offer through on site registration!

Please find here a description how to reach us. The symposium will take place in building 124 in the presentation rooms on the second floor, signs will guide you there after passing the main entrance.
 

Accommodation:

We will reserved a contingent of single and double rooms at hotels with good access to public transport in the vicinity of the symposium venue. Be aware of the fact that this is a recreational region which is usually booked out very fast. In particular if you intend to extend your stay e.g. for visiting the Oktoberfest, we strongly advice you to book your hotel early.

You may claim a room out of the contingent by referring to DLR LoCA 2007 while doing your reservation with the hotel. Please note, that you have to arrange and pay your accommodation yourself, and that the rooms are served on a first come / first serve base.

If you are going to attend both UbiComp in Innsbruck and LoCA, you may book a shuttle service from Innsbruck through the UbiComp 2007 website to one of the Hotels listed above.

Call for Papers:

The 2007 Symposium on Location and Context Awareness seeks new and significant research on systems, services, and applications to detect, interpret and use of location and other contextual information. Context includes users’ activities, goals, abilities, preferences, interruptibility, affordances, and surroundings. With context, we can expect computers to deliver information, services, and entertainment in a way that maximizes convenience and minimizes intrusion. Developing a wareness involves research in sensing, inference, data representation, and design.

We seek technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research results. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sensing location and context
• Inference techniques for context from low-level sensor data
• Privacy and sharing of location and context information
• User studies of location- and context-aware systems

One paper will be elected for a Best Paper Award by the LoCA program committee. In addition, a combination of the LoCA program committee and all symposium participants will elect the recipient of the Best Presentation Award following the symposium.

A PDF version of this CfP is also available.

Submission Guidelines:

All papers will be reviewed by an international program committee with appropriate expertise. LoCA 2007 aims to be selective and the committee will favor a technically robust program. The ideal LoCA submission should provide an insightful survey of existing work, introduce a radically new concept, or p resent concrete, significant, transferable research based on the implementation and evaluation of a working system.

Accepted papers will be presented by their authors at the LoCA Symposium in the Munich area and published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science. Submissions must be formatted in Springer LNCS style, limited to 18 pages. Submit papers as Adobe PDF via EDAS at http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=4899. Preparation of the camera-ready version of accepted papers may be shepherded by the program committee.

Important Dates:

Symposium Chairs:

General Chair
Thomas Strang, DLR and UIBK

Program Co-Chairs
Jeffrey Hightower, Intel Research
Bernt Schiele, TU Darmstadt
Email to the chairs: loca2007chairs[at]context-aware.org

Local Demo Arrangements
Kai Wendlandt, DLR

Technical Program Committee Members: