I found a call for participation (PDF) for a special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal.

For this special issue we solicit contributions that map and report on such developments, and highlight the effects of bringing ubiquitous computing to the real world:

  • What are the limitations of ubiquitous systems implementation in the real world in terms of economics, regulation, business realities and market situation and can the cost be justified?
  • Which systems can work outside the laboratory? Are the available infrastructures able to cater for the massive data flows created by auto-identification for example? What are the actual systems architectures that have been proven to effectively support the required workloads?
  • When ubiquitous systems are deployed what are the changes that bring to people’s lives? What changes are effected in people’s private lives at a personal and family level and what are the changes to social etiquette?
  • Is the ubiquitous computing world a utopia, which can never be reached because reality is messy? Can the vision of computing for all turn into a nightmare of surveillance and no privacy?
  • Can we reverse decades of technology as conqueror to achieve “calm technology”?
  • And above all, is the ubiquitous computing world a world which people seem happy to live in?

We are especially interested in systems that attempt to balance the different, frequently contradicting requirements of a real application environment, for example by catering to identified social needs while addressing specific regulatory constraints. In this, we take a particularly broad view of the terms “ubiquitous computing” as highlighted by the cases discussed above

This special issue aims to benefit both practitioners and academics with diverse backgrounds, from technologists to social scientists. It aims to collect in single place early experiences with real world implementations of ubiquitous computing systems and help develop a consensus regarding successful practice as well as to identify critical research questions for taking ubiquitous computing into the real world.

If I can get experimental results in time, I feel like my model could fit nicely in this special edition.

Source: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal website