Are you interested in participating?

The workshop Uniting the Californias is a bi-national forum for stimulating networking, scholarly debate, and disseminating research mainly between Southern California and Baja California.

The WUC welcomes participation from researchers in industry or academia as well as students interested in the design, study, and/or implementation of computing systems in various application domains such as health care, education, environment, security, communication, entertainment, etc. at the individual or collective level. The conference will include an enjoyable program including a doctoral consortium and an excellent opportunity for researchers and faculty members to discuss topics of interest for the community.

Interested? Please fill out this survey.

Workshop Activities

The event is divided into these activities:

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is scheduled on the first day of the event on 8 March 2013. The DC offers graduate students an important opportunity to present and discuss their research projects with peers and senior members of the research community.

Students wishing to attend should apply by completing a brief application including an abstract (300-500 words) describing their research. Accepted students will be expected to submit an extended paper (maximum of 4 pages, ACM SIGCHI format) addressing their aims and background, description of their projects, and the current state of their research (e.g., progress, roadblocks).

Places at the consortium are limited and will be offered based on the review of their submissions. The DC will be an open session where students can get feedback not only from the panel of experts but also from other participants.

To apply to the DC, please provide your personal information and abstract here.

Panel: TBA

Poster Session

The poster session is scheduled on the second day of the event on Saturday, March 9th, 2013. The session offers students an excellent opportunity to share and discuss their research projects on a one-on-one basis. Students wishing to attend have to submit the title of their poster through the registration survey.

Got (Crazy) Ideas?

This session is for faculty members and researchers to share early ideas with the community. The main idea of this session is to obtain feedback on preliminary ideas mainly from fellow faculty members and researchers. Ideas do not have to be fully developed and we encourage all faculty members and researchers to participate. Time slots will offer enough space for discussion among faculty members.

Thematic Discussions

The idea of this session is having a group of people with similar interests discuss open problems or ideas for projects in a particular application domain (e.g., health care). For this session, we will ask you to fill out a couple of questions included in the survey that will help us to pre-arrange some of the groups based on your interests. The groups will merely be suggestions based on your reported interests. The goal is to define a series of concrete ideas that can be of interest for the community. At the end, the ideas will be presented to the other groups to obtain feedback on the ideas.