CALL FOR PAPER

Many real-world ubiquitous computing systems make use of data-driven algorithms that require a significant amount of data to obtain good performance. System performance of these pure, data-driven systems largely depends on the quantity and quality of the data they use. Under ideal conditions – representative, large, balanced and labeled data – pure data-driven methods perform very well. However, in real-world systems, collecting data can be costly or impossible due to practical limitations. Physical knowledge (strong priors), can help alleviate issues that emerge when good data is limited. This includes 1) domain knowledge from experts, 2) experience-driven heuristics, and 3) analytic models of physical phenomena. With physical knowledge, we can infer target information more accurately compared to purely data-driven models. These priors can also improve performance and robustness when limited labeled data is available. In recent years, researchers have combined physical knowledge with traditional, data-driven approaches to improve model accuracy and system performance. We aim to attract researchers that are exploring fundamental questions about the integration of physical knowledge and data in real-world systems and deployments. We also aim to identify solutions and methodologies that generalize across various application domains.

Topics of Interests

• - Innovations in learning algorithms that combine physical knowledge or models for sensor perception and understanding
• - Experiences, challenges, analysis, and comparisons of sensor data in terms of its physical properties
• - Sensor data processing to improve learning accuracy
• - Machine learning and deep learning with physical knowledge on sensor data
• - Mobile and pervasive systems that utilize physical knowledge to enhance data acquisition
• - System services such as time and location estimation enhanced by additional physical knowledge
• - Heterogeneous collaborative sensing based on physical rules

The application areas include but not limited to:

• - Human-centric sensing applications
• - Environmental and structural monitoring
• - Smart cities and urban health
• - Health, wellness and medical

Successful submissions will explain why the topic is relevant to the data limitation caused problem that may be solved through the physical understanding of domain knowledge. In addition to citing relevant, published work, authors must cite and relate their submissions to relevant prior publications of their own. Ethical approval for experiments with human subjects should be demonstrated as part of the submission.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: June 23, 2019 June 30, 2019, submit HERE

Author Notifications: July 1, 2019 July 8, 2019

Camera-ready: July 8, 2019 July 12, 2019

Workshop Date: September 9, 2019

Submission Guidelines

Please submit short papers using the SIGCHI Extended Abstract format with 2-8 pages of content. Note that we use the newest ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstract template. Please refer to this link. Submissions may include as many pages as needed for references. The submissions should not be anonymous.

Template download: here