[dcchairs2016] UbiComp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School notification - #119

[dcchairs2016 at ubicomp.org]

Dear Christine Keller,

Please find enclosed the review for your accepted submission for the Ubicomp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School.

119: "Model Based and Service Oriented Interaction for Ubiquitous Environments"

Please read the reviews and instructions that the committee members included in it carefully, as they contains necessary further steps to ensure your DC paper submission appears in the program. Any of the committee instructions has to be considered as required for your final version.

As a reminder, the final version ("camera ready" version) is due no later than Wednesday, July 17th, 2016 at 11:59pm PDT. We will send more instructions about how to upload the camera-ready version of your paper before the deadline.

Thank you for submitting your work to UbiComp 2016, and congratulations again on your acceptance to the Ubicomp 2016 DS. We look forward to seeing you in Heidelberg in September!


Max Mühlhäuser
Nadir Weibel
Rene Mayrhofer

UbiComp 2016 Doctoral School Chairs


------------------------ Submission 119, Review 1 ------------------------

Title: Model Based and Service Oriented Interaction for Ubiquitous Environments


Confidence

   3  (Very confident - I am knowledgeable in the area)

Contribution to UbiComp

   This line of work investigates options for integrating user interaction
   with service discovery on a technical level and proposes to use semantic
   web services to enable spontaneous interaction. It is clearly relevant to
   Ubicomp, covering one of the core topics that still remains unsolved.

Overall Rating

   5  (Probably accept: I would argue for accepting this paper.)

The Review

   Positive: 
   - This is a core topic of Ubicomp, so it is very clearly in scope of the
   Ubicomp DC.
   - The author seems to already understand the research questions (i.e. not
   too early in the PhD process), but the specific implementation is still
   open (i.e. not too late).
   - A first summary of related work exists, and the author has started to
   position themselves in light of this previous work. One specific positive
   aspect is that this is multi-disciplinary (user interaction and basic
   middleware approaches), but strongly technology-oriented. Therefore,
   Ubicomp seems an ideal outlet for this line of research.

   Negative:
   - In some parts, the current draft is too technology-driven. That is,
   there is a clear idea of a software architecture, but the scenario to
   test it on is still to be defined. I strongly recommend to first define
   the aims (the research questions to be answered) and only then settle on
   the architecture for implementation. Although web-based SOA architecture
   seem to have many advantages for interoperability, it is not yet clear if
   that is the best technical approach to achieve the goal of seamless user
   interaction across multiple, previously unpaired devices. The author
   should remain open to looking at different technological approaches.

   Summarizing, I believe the author would benefit from participating in the
   Ubicomp DC.


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   Camera-ready requirements

   Please read carefully the comments above and consider editing your draft
   according to some of the raised points for the final camera-ready paper.