Pervasive 2009, May 11-14, Nara, Japan

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Japan's leading media artist Toshio Iwai began making flipbooks in his primary school. It was the simple animated drawings at the corner of his textbooks, however it determined the couse of his life. Iwai started his artist's career as an experimental animation filmmaker, but soon he was interested in the interactive media and the digital technologies, he started to think how we can handle both light and sound simultaneously and pleasantly, as we play music or draw pictures. In 2008 Iwai and Yamaha released a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a "visible music." In this keynote presentation, Iwai would introduce the trace of his works, demonstrate TENORI-ON and talk about the wide possibility of media art.

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Pervasive 2009, the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing, will be held May 11-14, 2009 in Nara, Japan.

This annual conference is the premier forum for researchers to present their latest results in all areas related to architecture, design, implementation, application and evaluation of pervasive computing.

Pervasive 2009 will include a highly selective single-track program for technical papers, accompanied by late-breaking result posters, videos, demonstrations, workshops, a doctoral colloquium and other events.

We welcome submissions that report on innovations in mobile and pervasive computing, including but not limited to the following topics:

• Technologies and devices for pervasive computing
• Software aspects including middleware and operating systems for pervasive computing
• Tools, infrastructures, architectures and techniques for designing, implementing & deploying pervasive computing systems
• Applications of pervasive computing technologies, Interfaces and modes of interactions between people and pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
• Evaluations and evaluation methods, for assessing the impact of pervasive computing devices, applications or environments
• Privacy, security, trust & social issues and implications of pervasive computing

For more information see the Call for Papers, Paper Submission or Contact: