Organizers: A.J. Brush - Microsoft Research, ajbrush@microsoft.com
Shwetak Patel - Georgia Tech, shwetak@cc.gatech.edu
Brian Meyers - Microsoft Research, brianme@microsoft.com
Albrecht Schmidt - University of Duisburg-Essen, albrecht.schmidt@acm.org

Overview: The Pervasive Computing @ Home workshop will focus on Pervasive Technology as applied specifically to a home environment. We will discuss what distinguishes the home from other sites of technological innovation, approaches to studying behavior in a home setting including in-situ studies and living laboratories, and lessons learned from building and studying pervasive technologies intended for use in homes. We encourage participants who have previously placed technology in the home or living laboratory or who are planning on doing so in the future to apply to this workshop.

Selecting Workshop Participants: Selection of participants will be based on refereed submissions. We are soliciting 2-4 page position paper submissions (single spaced, size 10 font) and expect to accept 15-20 participants. We ask authors to focus their paper submissions on challenges they faced deploying pervasive technology for home environments with an emphasis on lessons learned. Authors should also include a short biography at the end of the paper submission (included in 4-page limit).

Submissions should be emailed to ajbrush@microsoft.com by January 25, 2008 (11:59 EST) to be considered for review. If you are considering submission we encourage you to email any one of the organizers

Important Dates:
November 23, 2007 Workshop call posted
January 25, 2008 (11:59 EST) Workshop paper deadline
February 29, 2008 Notification of acceptance/rejection of papers