Introduction
We know very little about how human behaviour can affect sustainability, the environment, and the scenic quality, as we see in processes such as urban sprawl, intensive outdoor recreation, city expansion, and infrastructure developments. The main reason is the lack of monitoring information about the behavioural patterns of people’s movements on the landscape. In principle, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) made possible to gather very large data sets containing location information from mobile devices over time.
This workshop aims at getting a community input and feedback on the issues and
repercussions of discovering behavioural patterns from people in motion using privacy
preserving data mining, spatio-temporal ontologies, and visualisation techniques that will enable innovative movement-aware applications. Specifically, the workshop will provide a forum for discussion based on different perspectives from data providers, scientists, application developers, and users.
Scope of the Workshop
Topics considered in scope for this workshop include, but are not limited to:
Requirements
- Experiences from mobile telecommunication companies in providing the location of mobile customers
- Experiments on tracking people using mobile devices
- How is the mobile user experience different from the fixed user experience?
Strategic Issues
- How can we enable tracking people to be made as seamless, uncomplicated and reliable experience on mobile devices?
- How urban form characteristics (e.g. urban shapes and transportation network types at different scales) may be expected to influence people’s movements on the landscape?
- How trajectory patterns can be used to test implicit and explicit claims underlying mobility and policies?
- How to unravel trust and confidence problems, as well as security and privacy rights?
Technology Issues
- How can we make better use of existing mobile technologies? Are there gaps? Is there a need for new technologies?
- What technologies are needed to enable uniquely mobile capabilities that are aware of people’s behaviour on the landscape?
How to participate
To ensure productive discussions, the workshop is limited to 30 attendees.
Position papers are required in order to participate in this workshop. Each organisation or individual wishing to participate must submit a position paper explaining their interest in the workshop no later than August 27th . The intent is to make sure that participants have an active interest in the area, and that the workshop will benefit from their presence.
Send papers PDF format (1 to 2 pages) to Monica.Wachowicz@wur.nl
All position papers will be available from the workshop Web site. Speaker slides will also be available at the Web site after the workshop. There will not be printed proceedings.
To attend, you must register by filling out the registration form. The URL for the registration form will be sent to you after your position paper is accepted.
There will be no participation fee and participants are responsible for organizing their own travel and accommodation, however the availability of lower-cost accommodation will be available.
Important Dates
- August 27th: Deadline for position papers
- September 1st: Notification of acceptance of position papers
- September 5th: Registration deadline
- 11-12 September: Workshop on Knowledge Discovery for Sustainable Mobility