Videos are an effective tool to showcase research results, to inspire other researchers, and to educate the general public about the latest developments in Pervasive Computing.

With the category of Research Videos, Pervasive 2008 seeks research contributions, future visions, project descriptions, and concepts of pervasive computing technologies, systems and applications. The conference particularly values practical experience with design, deployment and use of pervasive systems and applications, and investigation of exciting and inspiring ideas and technologies.

To be accepted, a video must be of an appropriate length for the content. It must contain no material subject to copyright (i.e., that the authors cannot grant Pervasive 2008 the right to redistribute freely), and must be easily comprehensible to English speakers. Finally, an accepted video must be standalone, i.e., the video itself (with audio soundtrack) must describe the work sufficiently, without requiring the viewer to read the abstract. Videos will be judged primarily on their communication of interesting research content (assuming appropriate technical quality).

Each research video must be accompanied by a short paper describing the key research contribution. The paper should be written in a way that it can be understood by readers who have not or will not see the video.

Accepted videos will be shown in a special video session at Pervasive 2008. We also plan to have video proceedings on CD-ROM. The accompanying short paper will be published in the adjunct proceedings of Pervasive 2008 which will be available in printed form as well as electronically on the conference web-site.

Submission and Review Process

Authors MUST submit a URL to the video and a PDF of the accompanying short paper. Videos need to be submited in mpeg (MPEG1/2) or AVI (MPEG-4) as PAL or NTSC (The final camera-ready version must be submitted as PAL). The accompaying paper must be no longer than 4 pages in OCG Format.

Please send submissions to pervasive.2008.videos@gmail.com. Only submit a link to the video file, not the video.

Important Dates

• March 1, 2008: Videos: Submission deadline
• March 15, 2008: Videos: Acceptance notification

If authors have any queries regarding potential submissions, including copyright, please contact the co-chairs.

Video Co-Chairs

Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney, Australia
Email: andrew(at)arch.usyd.edu.au

Gerd Kortuem, Lancaster University, UK
Email: kortuem(at)comp.lancs.ac.uk