CARPE 2005
 

The 2nd ACM Workshop on
Capture, Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences

Singapore, November 11th 2005

in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2005

Workshop Scope

Personal storage of all one's media throughout a lifetime has been desired and discussed since at least 1945, when Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, positing the “Memex” device “in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility.” His vision was astonishingly broad for the time, including full-text search, annotations, hyperlinks, virtually unlimited storage and even stereo cameras mounted on eyeglasses. In 2004, storage, sensor, and computing technology have progressed to the point of making Memex feasible and even affordable. Indeed, we can now look beyond Memex at new possibilities. In particular, while media capture has typically been sparse throughout a lifetime, we can now consider continuous archival and retrieval of all media relating to personal experiences.

The CARPE research community was launched with the first ACM CARPE Workshop on October 15, 2004. The response to the workshop was overwhelmingly positive, and has led to an IEEE Multimedia special issue on CARPE. The first workshop used the word "continuous" rather than "capture" in the title. After some reflection, we decided "capture" was better, because we wanted to include research that was not completely continuous in nature, but still made an important contribution to the study of lifelong experience capture.

Interest in this topic has also been demonstrated by the success of the Memory and Sharing of Experiences workshop at Pervasive 04, the DARPA Assist program and the UK Memories for Life grand challenge proposal.

Submission

We invite regular and position papers as well as demonstrations (accompanied by descriptive papers) on relevant topics, including:

• Capture/sensors (e.g., scanning, wearable, embedded, different kinds of sensors, robotic assistance), experiential sampling.
• Data storage, management, organization and retrieval
• Insight: content analysis and data mining
• User interface issues, including: visualization, authoring, story-telling, annotation
• Applications: e.g., personal museum, health-support, childcare, research tools, meeting capture.
• Security, privacy, and legal issues

Program Committee
Kiyoharu Aizawa, U. Tokyo
Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University
Steven Drucker, Microsoft Research
Leana Golubchik, U. Southern California
Ramesh Jain , Georgia Tech
William Jones, U. Washington
Kai Li, Princeton University
Kenji Mase, Nagoya U./ATR
Bob Mayo, HP Labs
Maurice Mulvenna, U. Ulster
Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab
Gopal Pingali, IBM Research
Ehud Reiter, U. Aberdeen
Cyrus Shahabi, U. Southern California
Ken Wood, Microsoft Research
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research
 

Important Dates
Jul 29 Submission deadline
Aug 22  Acceptance notification
Aug 29 Camera-ready deadline

Submission
Applicants must submit abstracts/papers via the submission site. Technical papers may be up to 16 pages in length, while demonstration papers may be up to 6 pages. All papers must follow standard ACM style guidelines and must be submitted in pdf format.

Web Site
research.microsoft.com/CARPE2005/