[dcchairs2016] UbiComp/ISWC 2016 Doctoral School notification - #125

[dcchairs2016 at ubicomp.org]

Dear Katrin Hänsel,

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

125: "Wearable and Ambient Sensing for Well-being and Emotional Awareness in the Smart Workplace"

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 125, Review 1 ------------------------

Title: Wearable and Ambient Sensing for Well-being and Emotional Awareness in the Smart Workplace


Confidence

   4  (Highly confident - I consider myself an expert in the area)

Contribution to UbiComp

   This submission proposes to investigate how ambient and wearable
   technology can help individuals to manage stress and improve well-being
   at the workplace through social awareness.

Overall Rating

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

The Review

   This is a well-defined research with specific research questions and
   research objectives. The idea is not completely new and there is a lot of
   work in the area, but the student seem to be aware of this work. The
   initial literature review on wearable technology for behavior change is a
   great step to uncover the related work, I suggest that more should be
   done in terms of stress and not only wearable to have an even better
   picture.

   The timing for the DC seems right and I think that this student can gain
   a lot from the discussion with the panel. In preparation for the Doctoral
   School, I would advise the student to further explore related work, and
   also perhaps have a few ideas about how Ubicomp technology could help.
   Given the amount of work out there, it will be interesting to see what
   novel approaches will be proposed. 

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   Camera-ready requirements: for the camera-ready paper, please clarify
   better in the text what are the specific activities that have been
   performed. Also  make it more clear what activities are already planned
   ahead and how do you plan to answer the research questions through them.
   The distinction between research performed and planned should be clear,
   and activities should be directly related to the research questions.