Workshop: Wireless Cities: Ubiquitous Computing and Web-based Services in an Urban Environment (Half-day Workshop)
Leaders: Gerrit Tamm and Alexander Schlienz
 
The urban infrastructure development is at the beginning of a new era. New ubiquitous technologies, which are available now, offer new services and applications for habitants, tourists and businesses. The technical opportunities for interconnecting mobile people via their constant companion like cell phones, smart phones and handhelds, are countless available and are going to be tied into the urban infrastructure and already existing communication networks. Thus we are not only available on the phone or are able to realize a web connection at any time and at any place, but we also can be located permanently, so that we can use location based services at our current environment. This led to a variety of applications, mainly summed up in the categories location based services and local based information systems. But the search of new application contexts has just started. By using the new technical opportunities, concepts of user generated content or the building of time and position depending platforms and networks shall be generated. The development of such new services and applications must comply and conform with customer requirements, market conditions profitability conditions and technological developments.

This workshop will bring together representatives of ongoing wireless city initiatives and researchers in this rapidly developing field. The objective of this session is to share knowledge, discuss latest research results and strengthen the network of the international community of academics and practitioners. We encourage manuscript submissions and presentation exploring novel applications e.g. in the area of e-government, health, education, public safety, utilities, traffic, tourism and commerce including (but not limited to) the following topics:

o Identification of trends in the context of wireless cities
o Innovative application scenarios for different target groups
o Solutions for collaboration, business models and cost-benefit sharing
o Design recommendations, requirements for sustainable business success
o User orientation, acceptance and diffusion models
o EPC information services and web-based services
o Infrastructure, integration and middleware
o Standardization, interoperability and interfaces
o Security and data protection
o Transparency, privacy and trust
o Economic, social and political aspects
o Legal aspects (e.g. policies, regulations, organization forms)

You may submit a manuscript (pdf format, 5-8 pages) directly to tamm@wiwi.hu-berlin.de and cc winkleti@wiwi.hu-berlin.de. Those selected for presentation will be a permanent part of the official publications of the HICSS-43 conference, as citable references on http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/Reports.htm (not the Conference Proceedings published by the IEEE).

Gerrit Tamm (tamm@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) studied industrial engineering and management at the Technische Universität Berlin as well as financial management and managerial accounting at the University of California Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. on “Web-based services: supply, demand and matching” in 2003 from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2003 to 2004 he was executive director of the BMBF-funded Berlin Research Center on Internet Economics “Internet and Value Chains - InterVal”. Since 2006 he is the executive director of the BMWi-funded Research Center of Collaboration and RFID “Ko-RFID” in Berlin. He is Professor of Informatics and Information Systems at the SRH University in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Tamm is founder of Asperado.com and the Electronic Business Forum.

Alexander Schlienz (schlienz@ieb.net) studied economics at the University of Augsburg and the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2007 he is working as a research assistant for the Institute of Electronic Business at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, both in project development as well as in research. His favorite interests are lying in the field of new developments of IT based on customer services. From 2007 to 2009 he worked in the research project “Context-Sensitive-Interface-Design for Ambient Assisted Living Environments” of the German Academy of Technical Sciences - acatech.

Workshop Support is provided by:

Heiner Andexer (andexer@ieb.net), Wireless City Berlin Group, is the advisory committee member for this workshop.

Till Winkler (winkleti@wiwi.hu-berlin.de) is working as a research assistant at the Institute of Information Systems at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Prior to this, he had worked as an IT strategist for a leading consultancy firm.

Maria Wünsche (maria.wuensche@unisg.ch), Wireless City Berlin Group, will support in the organization of the Workshop.