1st Intl. Workshop on Security and Privacy Issues in Mobile Phone Use (SPMU'08) - Call for Papers ===================================================================== http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/events/spmu08/ Sydney, Australia *Important Dates* ----------------- *EXTENDED* Submission Deadline: February 8, 2008 Notification to Authors: February 29, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers: March, 21 2008 Workshop: May 19, 2008 *Scope* ------- The mobile phone has become the most widely deployed computing platform in the world. Analysts predict some 2.6 billion mobile phones in regular use by 2009, with the sales of smartphones representing the fastest growing market [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4697405.stm]. For many people, the mobile phone is the first computer they encounter, and certainly they only computer they carry with them most of their waking moments. Mobile computers in general, and mobile phones in particular, present unique challenges not only in terms of user interface, battery life, and form factor, but also in terms of ensuring their users' privacy and security. Emerging mobile payment and ticketing solutions require the secure transmission and storage of financial information, while electronic health records or access certificates/tokens might imply the use of highly sensitive personal information on such devices. Wireless connectivity such as WiFi, Bluetooth, or NFC facilitates decentralized tracking, while content sharing applications and collaborative games enable unobtrusive social data mining. Providing security for such wireless communication is a general problem, further complicated by the fact that there is hardly any a priori information about potential communication partners. This workshops aims at bringing together researchers interested in exploring security and privacy issues in mobile phone usage -- not only on a platform level, but on both the physical and social network level as well. Topics of interests are, e.g., * Secure payment/ticketing systems using mobile phones * Secure authentication mechanisms for mobile phone, both for authenticating users to phones and phone to other devices * Security and privacy issues in mobile phone networks * Usability issues in mobile phone security and privacy solutions * Public perception of security and privacy issues of mobile phones * Digital rights management on mobile phones * Legal and social issues of security and privacy for mobile phones * Options for lawful, auditable, and restricted tracking and surveillance using mobile phones in law enforcement *Contributions* --------------- We welcome both short position papers (1-2 pages) and full workshop submissions (8 pages in LNCS format). Full papers will be published in the Pervasive 2008 Workshops Proceedings as well as online and distributed electronically at the conference, and authors will be given a presentation slot in the workshop. Authors of position papers will be invited to join the workshop, but will receive no presentation slot. Full submissions will be peer-reviewed by program committee members and expert reviewers and will be selected according to their significance to the scope of the workshop, their quality of presentation and their ability to stimulate discussions. Up to 15 full submissions can be accepted, and workshop attendance will be limited to 30 participants. Contributions must be sent by email to <spmu08@lists.inf.ethz.ch> by January 25, 2008 and should be in PDF format. *Organizing Committee* ---------------------- Rene Mayrhofer (Lancaster University, UK) Marc Langheinrich (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Alexander De Luca (LMU Munich, Germany) Alexander De Luca Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LFE Medieninformatik Amalienstr. 17 D-80333 München Fon +49-89-2180-4688 Fax +49-89-2180-4652 Skype: Alexander De Luca alexander.de.luca@ifi.lmu.de www.medien.ifi.lmu.de -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/