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ACM SenSys 2020: Call for Research Posters Related to COVID-19 Pandemic
Response<br>
</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Submission
deadline: 23:59 (AoE), <span style="background:yellow">September 25, 2020</span><br>
Conference: November 16-19, 2020 (entirely online)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070c0"><a href="http://sensys.acm.org/2020" target="_blank">http://sensys.acm.org/2020</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">We
sincerely hope that you and your family members are staying safe during the
COVID-19 pandemic. As an embedded and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">mobile
sensing community, many research groups are putting together efforts to assist
healthcare workers in better treating </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">this
world-wide pandemic, as well as to support general public in better protecting
themselves from potential risks of exposure. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">ACM
SenSys 2019 will host a special session for sharing such efforts and solicits
submissions of poster-style abstracts </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">reflecting
on-going research progress. We welcome submissions that discuss topics related
to (but are not limited to) the following</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="m_1039513000617978571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Contact
tracing technologies for COVID-19</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Data
collection and analytics for COVID-19</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">System
design and deployment experiences</span></p>
<p class="m_1039513000617978571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">IT-medicine
collaborative efforts in tackling infectious diseases</span></p>
<p class="m_1039513000617978571MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Clinical
support systems for pandemic response</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">System
design for remote education</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Other
system design and implementation experiences to address challenges in the with-COVID-19/post-COVID-19
era</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Submitted
abstracts will be evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as
their potential to stimulate interesting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">discussions
and exchange of ideas. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Authors
of accepted abstracts will be given a one-minute slot in a “madness session”
during the SenSys main conference </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">to
present their work in front of the conference audience, in addition to the
poster presentation with other SenSys2020 poster </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">track
accepted authors. (Detail format of the presentation mentioned above is yet to
be decided.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">All
abstracts shall be formatted according to the main conference paper layout.
Accepted abstracts will appear in the </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">conference
proceedings and the ACM Digital Library.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Award<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">All
papers will be considered for the Best Research Award (<u>COVID-19 Pandemic
Response Track)</u>. The program committee </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">will
select candidates for the award among accepted papers and select one or more
award papers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Submission Instructions</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Abstracts
must be submitted as a single PDF containing <span style="background:yellow">no
more than 2 pages</span>. The submission should be self-contained </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">ready
for publication, including the title, authors, institutional affiliations and
contact information, abstract, main body, and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">references.
Submissions must use a 10pt font (or larger) and be correctly formatted for
printing on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">paper.
Paper text blocks must follow ACM guidelines: double column, with each column
9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">between
columns and single-spaced. Submissions can use this LaTeX template that is
known to comply with the formatting </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">requirements.
Please DO NOT anonymize your submission. Upon acceptance, instructions for the
final camera-ready </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">abstract
will be provided.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">You
may include links to additional online material such as videos. Links to videos
showing the demonstration are especially</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> encouraged.
Videos of accepted abstracts will be linked from the SenSys web pages and
permanently included in the </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">ACM
Digital Library.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">At
least one author of an accepted paper needs to register for the conference and
present the paper at the conference. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">(Discount
author rate for the authors on this track is now under consideration. TBD)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Submission Site</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">TBD</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">23:59
(AoE), September 25, 2020 – Submission Deadline</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">23:59
(AoE), October 9, 2020 – Notification of Acceptance</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">23:59
(AoE), October 20, 2020 – Camera-ready Submission Deadline (tentative)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">November
16-19, 2020 – ACM SenSys2020</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Organizing Committee</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">Tadashi
Okoshi (Keio University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica">JeongGil
Ko (Yonsei University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="mailto:sensys2020-special@sfc.keio.ac.jp" target="_blank">sensys2020-special@sfc.keio.ac.jp</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070c0">SenSys2020 goes to entirely online:</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070c0"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070c0;background:white">We've been monitoring the progress of COVID-19 pandemic. It
is a very</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0070c0"> <span style="background:white">dynamic target and the
risk of mass physical gathering remains high.</span> <span style="background:white">Putting the wellbeing of the community above all, we,
the entire OC</span> <span style="background:white">and SC, have decided to
take SenSys2020 entirely virtual. With the</span> <span style="background:white">change,
we'll also be able to offer a discount registration fee while</span> <span style="background:white">you worry less about travel restrictions/costs.
Therefore, please do</span> <span style="background:white">not hesitate to contribute
your latest research result to the</span> <span style="background:white">conference!
We believe the decision is the best, albeit difficult, for</span> <span style="background:white">us all, and the local OC members hope sincerely that
there will be</span> <span style="background:white">other opportunities to
welcome you all to Japan.</span></span></i></p></div></div></div></div>