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Smart Spaces for Smart People Workshop eScience Institute, National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh

Speaker’s Brief

Wednesday 4th May, Session 1, 13:00 – 15:00

We would like you to speak according to the following template for up to 10 minutes, unless we indicate otherwise:

• Open with a brief introduction to your interest in Smart Spaces, indicating whether your attention is on environments, personal systems, or both.
• Then, please focus on the directions in which you think the field might be heading: please feel free to speculate, with as broad a scope as you feel to be appropriate.
• Although we hope the workshop style will be interactive, if you prefer to use PowerPoint, please keep to a maximum of two slides, and e-mail a copy to Jeremy Frey [J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk] before 12:00 Wednesday morning.

Given the probable number of contributions to this first session, we anticipate needing to keep all speakers strictly to time.

Points you might like to consider

You will have read in the Aim section of the Smart Space Theme document that we want to explore the nature and potential of links and interactions. You might want to consider the form that such interactions might take and how links might be recognised and – if appropriate – captured.

We have identified three specific Smart Space environments: meeting, teaching, and research. You might like explore any common ground between these environments and/or to discuss whether the scope for Smart Spaces is, or should be, wider. You might like to reflect upon the extent to which we should rely on the proper use of information acquired through smart environments and by personal systems: are significant issues of trust raised? You might wish to offer your views on the impact on the wider community of the smart technologies under consideration: we intend to analyse that aspect when preparing the outputs from the workshop.

Subsequent Session will focus on discussion, creating and capturing ideas.

This information and more can be found on the Workshop wiki and a draft timetable is also available on the Wiki Timetable.

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